Sentence examples for act of decisive from inspiring English sources

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.

But few of its visitors know that it is where one of the most remarkable events in Mexican history took place: Cortés's most famous act of bold, decisive cool.

Vavi condemned a lack of decisive leadership.

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.

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

Downing Street called it 'a big, decisive act of leadership', proof that New Labour would govern as it promised.

'This is serious business,' he added, outlining what promises to be the last decisive act of his presidency.

With Strauss, more than many other composers, this translation requires a particularly strong and decisive act of the interpretive imagination.

It feels like the final, decisive act of auto-infanticide for Radcliffe and Harry Potter: the Kid is dead; long live the King.

Backed by extensive financing from the United States, Otpor steadily coaxed them from the inertia and introspective desperation of the 1990's, when the most decisive act of the best and the brightest was emigration or draft evasion.

Becoming Bree is to be the decisive act of Stanley's life and the movie's epilogue is positive in a tentative way, but no more than moderately hopeful.