Sentence examples for achieve decisive from inspiring English sources

The fight against ISIS is horribly complicated and difficult; even the right strategy won't achieve decisive results anytime soon.

"You could call it efficient multilateralism — the recognition that if you link diplomacy, law, and force, you can achieve decisive results without using decisive force".

Under the energetic Arthur Wellesley (later 1st duke of Wellington), in command from 1809, the Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese forces were to achieve decisive successes.

The Allied minelaying campaign was too brief to achieve decisive results, however.

Over the next two years, the Byzantines increased their forces in Lazica, but failed to achieve decisive success; Gubazes quarreled with their generals, and wrote to Emperor Justinian accusing them of incompetence following a defeat by the Persians.

For all their abilities, tactical skills, training prowess, and battlefield accomplishments, the capacity of U.S. Special Operations forces to achieve decisive and enduring successes ― strategic victories that serve U.S. national interests ― have proved to be exceptionally limited, a reality laid bare from Afghanistan to Iraq, Yemen to the Philippines. .

CAIRO — By force of this year's Arab revolts and revolutions, activists marching under the banner of Islam are on the verge of a reckoning decades in the making: the prospect of achieving decisive power across the region has unleashed an unprecedented debate over the character of the emerging political orders they are helping to build.

Most notably, during World War II, he led the Australian and British troops at the Siege of Tobruk (1941) and at the Second Battle of El Alamein (1942), achieving decisive victories over Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps.

June 2009 In a speech to the Royal United Services Institute, Dannatt said one of the key lessons from the conflict was the need to achieve a "decisive effect" early on.

And Mr. Obama's failure to achieve a decisive edge on economic policy is central to his failure to open up a big lead in overall polling.

Churchill chafed at the delay, wishing to achieve a decisive victory over Rommel in advance of Operation Torch, the planned Allied landings in Tunisia in November 1942.