Unable to get help from either Buenos Aires or foreign powers, San Martín promoted a more decisive commitment from Chile to finance the navy.
That would show an early and decisive commitment to a truly democratic election.
Senegal and Uganda have demonstrated this, with limited money but a decisive political commitment.
Decisive commitment in the absence of such assurance may nevertheless be possible, motivated (as Swinburne suggested in the first edition of his Faith and Reason) by the evaluative belief that 'unless [faith-propositions are true], that which is most worthwhile is not to be had' (Swinburne, 1981, 117).
Thus, for example, he has responded to the sort of regress worries mentioned later in the entry by appealing, first, to an agent's "decisive commitments," and more recently, to her "satisfaction" with her motives -- an absence of "restlessness or resistance" in response to their motivating force.
As Powell is well aware, the war on terrorism strains his ideal of clear objectives and decisive commitments.
"Cyprus was able to gradually loosen capital controls because of a decisive and credible commitment to reform.
Either situation would accelerate movement toward a decisive point — a commitment to victory, or the realization that Americans simply do not believe the threats cited are really worthy of the sacrifices required to vanquish them.
If we are truly serious about tackling homelessness, this has to go hand-in-hand with government providing more desperately needed frontline resources for hard-pressed councils, and we need a decisive long-term commitment to build homes that people on lower incomes can actually afford.
She made a decisive decision.
Mr. McCain and Mr. Bush have grown closer politically in the past few years because of a shared commitment to a decisive battle against terrorism and the insurgency in Iraq, although it is unclear if support for the war will win votes in 2008.
