Sentence examples for act decisive from inspiring English sources

"It usually pays off if you act decisive -- in business, in the military, in anything," he said.

Smith calls Grant's tardy act "decisive," but the attempted corner was already collapsing by the time word of Grant's sell order reached Wall Street.

The unexpected question came as television watchers settled in for what was supposed to be the final act: the decisive appeal of Judge Sauls's decision, which was a rout of the Gore forces.

"The ability of hedge funds to act as decisive change agents dates to one momentous trade: George Soros's bet against the British pound in 1992," Mr. Eavis says.

The ability of hedge funds to act as decisive change agents dates to one momentous trade: George Soros's bet against the British pound in 1992.

While there were some German troops in the town, "the role of Poles in this criminal act was decisive," Radoslaw Ignatiew, of the Polish Institute for National Remembrance, said today.

At its best the leave is a tangible presence, an act of decisive, aggressive non-engagement, a challenge to the bowler to blink first, go seeking a response and find yourself counterpunched by some maddening little opener's nudge, or cuff or clip.

Perez's script is filled with pings; the game that is played in the first act is decisive in the third, the line that is tossed off as an aside bursts grandly and genially into action at a crucial moment, the detail that grates on a character early on motivates some key behavior late in the game.

This would imply that repressor edges act more decisive than activators which may be involved in the logical control of other genes, as a collective.

AP-2α and AP-2γ were suggested to act as decisive pacemakers for cellular fates such as proliferation, apoptosis and differentiation in the mammary epithelium under physiological conditions [ 5, 20].

One decisive act of statesmanship could drastically turn this picture around.