The phrase "a decisive answer to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a clear and conclusive response to a question or issue.
Example: "The research provided a decisive answer to the long-standing debate about climate change."
Alternatives: "a conclusive response to" or "a definitive answer to".
His response on the morning after the result, calling for a decisive answer to the West Lothian Question, was a canny way of embracing the inevitable.
Surely this second election will give a decisive answer to what the Greeks want: Stick with the program and stay in the euro, or tear up the plan and bring back the drachma?
And Foreign Office ministers still need to give a decisive answer to accusations that the treaty is not really any different to the EU constitution that was rejected by the voters of France and Holland".
"This diplomatic and legal achievement comes as a decisive answer to the so-called alternative homeland, or Jordan Option," the king said on December 5th.Mr Abbas's people note further that the international fallout, too, has so far proved lower than previously anticipated: America which opposed the vote has yet to close the PLO mission in Washington.
And Foreign Office ministers still need to give a decisive answer to accusations that the treaty is not really any different to the EU constitution that was rejected by the voters of France and Holland". The reason they can't point to any significant changes from the original is that there simply aren't any - only superficial changes removing titles and symbols like the EU's flag and anthem.
We've had so many intriguing set-ups in Breaking Bad's "cold open" moments answered over the years (the teddy bear's eyeball floating in the pool, the fly sequence, that first glimpse of bald, bad-ass Walt), that it's hard to imagine we'll be left with anything other than a decisive answer to the show's biggest question: will the cancer get him before the law does?
The Devils gave a decisive answer tonight to those who thought this might be the logical spot for a letdown.
The interpretation that Deckard is a replicant is challenged by others who believe the unicorn imagery shows that the characters, whether human or replicant, share the same dreams and recognize their affinity, or that the absence of a decisive answer is crucial to the film's main theme.
ac1c8bdb-b1bf-4f8e-9178-0f52c93d3220 In the aftermath of Scotland voting to stay within the UK, David Cameron has said a "decisive answer" is now needed to the so-called "English Question".
The evidence amassed did not lead to a decisive answer because much depended upon subjective opinions rather than upon hypotheses and experiments.
"The question of English votes for English laws – the so-called West Lothian question – requires a decisive answer," the prime minister said, determined to silence any threat from the Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
