Sentence examples for a decisive gap from inspiring English sources
At the equivalent stage in his two successful Tours in 2013 and 2015, as the race left the Pyrenees Froome had opened a decisive gap and had a team-mate in close support – Geraint Thomas last year, Richie Porte in 2013.
The race's main rivals for overall victory attacked and counter-attacked behind, before Miguel Angel Lopez and Quintana opened up what appeared to be a decisive gap.
United looked to have opened up a decisive gap over City during the Easter period - but this was a listless, almost complacent performance that on occasions reduced manager Sir Alex Ferguson to visible anger in his technical area.
United struggled to make the breakthrough that would see them open up a potentially decisive gap over their rivals from across the city.
However, there is a decisive research gap regarding the question of how (potential) investors react to corporate stakeholder management activities (Hillenbrand et al. 2013).
Cummings and his runner-up, Rohan Dennis, acknowledged that the key to the Briton's victory this week was the second stage through the Lake District, where Cummings paced his effort over the key climb of the Struggle to ensure that he had enough left in the tank at the end to open the decisive gap on the Australian and the eventual third-placed Tom Dumoulin of Holland.
The Baltic team led the game from the beginning, first managing short distances to finally open the decisive gap late in the third quarter.
The Tour was won after Froome opened decisive gaps in the Ardeche time trial on the second Thursday.
Although some will take heart from the fact that Froome was unable to open decisive gaps uphill at Luchon and Arcalís, this does not mean that he or Team Sky are weaker than in previous years, merely that the race has not yet been tested to the point of rupture.
Thus, our study confirms and extends previous reports on a decisive role of gap junctional communication on augmentation of apoptosis in tumour cell lines such as BC31 (a rat bladder carcinoma cell line) or C6 glioma cells, as well as in neuronal cells, for example, astrocytes and Neuro2a cells.
