Sentence examples for a decisive stroke from inspiring English sources

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A decisive stroke that drifted left to right and into the cup.

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In a swift and decisive stroke of preventive medicine, Dr. Snow removed the handle from the pump, and the epidemic was thereby brought under control.

Up close, one sees that their fidelity is impressionistic: Wilson worked with painterly certainty to sum up atmospheres and rock forms in a few decisive strokes.

Ultimately, the decisive stroke was a public endorsement by the leader of the Labour party for New Zealand First, which encouraged its supporters to vote for Mr Peters.The Northland electorate suffers from high unemployment and poor infrastructure, including many kilometres of dirt roads.

The final decisive stroke of the war, the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown, is to be credited chiefly to Washington's vision.

He has a brisk swing, which can look anxiously defensive, but when he makes contact, as he'd done here, still on the full count, his decisive stroke opens him up again as the ball takes flight and starts him swiftly up the line.

The fundamental thesis: that the "airpower theories of men like [Italian aviator Giulio] Douhet and the Blitzkrieg theories of men like [English General J.F.C.] Fuller both proposed to strike directly into the heart of the enemy, to win the war in one swift and decisive stroke"–are fundamentally false.

Such bitingly humorous touches risk coming across as a bit of a queasy surprise, if the designer is covering for a lack of decisive strokes.

She made a decisive decision.

Tight-junction (TJ) protein degradation is a decisive step in hypoxic blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown in stroke.

However, the factors contributing to pre-stroke architecture of cognitive networks are often ignored, even though they reportedly play a decisive role in the manifestation of cognitive impairment in neurodegeneration.

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