Although, strangely enough, it is a Swiss detective who dies most decisively and irretrievably: almost the first thing we learn about Inspector Barlach of the Bern Police is that he has terminal cancer, which is why there are only two books about him.
Scots also voted, almost as decisively, for their parliament to have the power to vary Scottish income taxes.
We've beaten almost everybody so decisively".
Like an antithesis to the alluring and heavily technological works of Antin, artist Renaud Jerez's shambling humanoid sculptures were almost repulsively and decisively ephemeral.
The Murdochs were able to represent themselves as acting decisively and almost altruistically – rather as a farmer might regretfully shoot a rabid dog that has been a cherished family pet.
But when Bush tried and failed to get a Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq, decisively alienating almost all of our European allies in the process, foreign policy was back in play.
Jennifer Lopez was one of the celebrities who wore decisively bright colors, almost in defiance of the national mood -- or what they expected the national mood to be.
Trends in the comparative study of religions have retained the interest in morphology but have decisively rejected the almost universal 19th-century assumption of unitary evolution in the history of religion.
PARIS — One day after President François Hollande outlined measures aimed at reining in France's budget deficit and restoring economic growth, opponents lambasted him on Monday for failing to move quickly and decisively enough, after almost four months in office, to stave off the spiral of decline to which other euro zone economies have already succumbed.
Had they been ordered to carry out the old strategy -- to win decisively in two theaters almost simultaneously -- the risk would have been extremely high and would have been unacceptable to the commanders.
Mr. Bloomberg has decisively ended the most dangerous of Mr. Giuliani's feuds, the one with almost every black political leader who had ever criticized him.
