Sentence examples for aim of decisive from inspiring English sources

The doctrine set forth by Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, and later amended by Colin Powell, held that the United States should not commit its forces to a fight unless there was a vital national interest at stake, solid public support, the aim of decisive victory, and an exit strategy.

She said: "I am sure, when you have considered my proposal, you will agree that it achieves your primary aims of taking decisive and robust action, enabling the necessary changes while mitigating many of the untested risks in the Le Grand/Wood model".

In this viewpoint, we drew on the experiences of all schemes paying for biodiversity outcomes/results on agricultural land operating in the EU and EFTA countries with the aim of reviewing the decisive elements of the schemes' design and implementation as well as the challenges and opportunities of adopting a results-based approach.

Although initiating outpatient treatment is the decisive aim of the intervention, it is not the primary or only criterion of success.

We are now halfway through the two-week United Nations summit, which aims to agree a global treaty of decisive action to curb global warming.

"Society demands people who are capable of decisive actions in pursuit of noble aims, even if it's not always strictly legal".

The aim of the summit is to agree decisive action that will limit global warming to 2˚C, beyond which the consequences become increasingly devastating.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe decisive situations experienced by spouses of patients with heart failure that could potentially affect their ability to provide social support to the patient.

According to Smith, "no act of force will ever be decisive" because the aim of modern conflicts is to win the will of the people, which will not be achieved by battlefield victory alone.

With the aim of having a gene expression analysis as decisive as possible, we included the impartial inter-laboratory reference TaqMan RT-PCR assays from Applied Biosystems in parallel to our custom tests (Table 3).

Second is the myth of "decisive destruction".