Sentence examples for a less decisive from inspiring English sources

Genoa's political zenith was marked by a crushing naval victory over the Pisans at Meloria (1284) and a less decisive one over the Venetians at Curzola (1298), followed by other successful encounters.

He says he has no objection to metallurgical study but it would be a "less decisive index" of authenticity than is provided by analysis of the content of the letters and images.One theory, aired in the Jewish Chronicle, drew on one of of the few pieces of metallurgical analysis whose results have been made known, a test by Peter Northover of the Department of Materials at Oxford University.

In families where women are key decision-makers, the proportion of resources devoted to children is far greater than those in which women have a less decisive role.

Alternatively, it may reflect reluctance to categorise patients with a negative diagnostic assessment as having definite non-cardiac pain, particularly when a less decisive option (uncertain cause) is available.

It would extend the deadlines for rebuilding fish populations and give greater weight to the "economic consequences" of fishing restrictions — another way of saying that science should play a less-decisive role.

It's that they're so coolly composed, so infernally correct that there's nothing raw about them, and you find yourself thinking: would it not be more interesting if his moments were a little less decisive?" Perhaps, but then he would not be the Cartier-Bresson we know – and his influence would not have been so widespread.

Regarding human exposures, the NTP came to a much less decisive conclusion compared with the Chapel Hill panel (vom Saal et al. 2007), stating that "there are data reporting bisphenol A concentrations in urine, breast milk, and amniotic fluid".

In 2010, an indecisive election result led to the formation of a coalition, which in turn will almost certainly give way to an even less decisive election result.

At their head stood the mobedān mobed ("priest of priests"), who, in addition to his purely religious jurisdiction, appears, especially in later times, to have had a more or less decisive voice in the choice of a successor to the throne and in other matters of state.

The final rout of the fleeing Taira forces on the sea, however, put a more or less decisive end to the swing of fortune between Minamoto and Taira.

In this case, I was lucky the dumbfounded-ness allowed me to at least be late and to take a 'more or less' decisive moment.