Sentence examples for a decisive turn in from inspiring English sources

The announcement was the first official word on the whereabouts of any members of the Qaddafi family since the colonel was routed from his Tripoli fortress by rebel forces a week ago, a decisive turn in the Libyan conflict.

Are we seeing a decisive turn in UK politics?

Its revival marked a decisive turn in the modern Arab world.

But a decisive turn in the story occurred in Iberia in the late fourteenth century, when massacres of Jews inspired huge numbers to accept baptism.

Colonel Qaddafi has been a fugitive since the rebels invaded Tripoli late last month in what quickly became a decisive turn in the six-month conflict.

The events appeared to mark a decisive turn in four days of protests that have shaken Libya, a North African nation rich in oil.

Here too there has been a rather decisive turn in professional opinion; there are a lot of dead-enders even within the economics profession, but the fact remains that both pillars of the pro-austerity position — claims of expansionary austerity, and claims that terrible things happen when debt crosses some rather low threshold — have collapsed, spectacularly.

A decisive turn toward abstraction occurred in 1988, when Oehlen shared a house in Spain with Kippenberger, and the two artists closely tracked and critiqued each other's development.

But Daniel Benjamin, the coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that in the last six weeks there had been "a decisive turn by the Yemeni government" in perceiving Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as a threat and moving against it with American support in air and ground strikes.

While the agreement provides no road map for the future and did not address pressing security issues, it left many people here hopeful that a decisive turn was shaping up in relations between two governments that have vilified each other for decades.

The big fear is that a decisive turn against the bailout package in Greece could undermine European efforts to enforce deep budget cuts in other heavily indebted European countries, especially Italy, which is mired in its own political crisis and has a far larger economy and much more debt than Greece.