Sentence examples for a single decisive from inspiring English sources

Forget about finding a single, decisive explanation for the plunge.

The goal was to gain strategic advantage, not to look for a single decisive engagement.

By the time of the French Revolution in 1789, warfare had ceased to be a localized affair with a few thousand soldiers engaged in a single decisive battle.

What it did share with many of the races that preceded it in the 70 seasons since 1950 however was a single decisive moment.

When there's a complex list of pros and cons driving a potentially expensive action, seek a single decisive reason to go for it — not a blended reason.

In a single, decisive afternoon they overcame Mubarak's riot police and have since held their ground against his informers and thugs.

It's one thing to channel an entire population's frustrations into a single titanic, decisive eruption.

American war planners say no single, decisive moment tipped the scales.

There just doesn't seem to have been enough time for the slow development from wandering wolf to drifting proto-dog without the single decisive intervention of someone to nudge the wolf toward dogdom.

Tree clearing has been the single decisive factor in fluctuating carbon emissions in Queensland, which was Australia's largest carbon polluter with 27.9% of all emissions in 2014, according to the Australian National Greenhouse Accounts released in May.

Trump's executive order said federal officials should rely on the dissenting opinion of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who argued that the law should apply only to "navigable waters". No court has ever ruled that this test is the single decisive threshold for triggering Clean Water Act protections.