Sentence examples for anything decisive from inspiring English sources

The bad news is that they are loth to do anything decisive about it.

Yet the west failed to do anything decisive after 200,000 people were killed in Syria.

Every one of Gareth Southgate's players had come through English academies, and none of them – even the generally estimable Harry Kane, who did not manage a single goal in 270 minutes of play – produced anything decisive when it really counted.

Asked about the shadow chancellor John McDonnell's belief, expressed in a speech last week, that Brexit presents "enormous opportunities", Abbott said: "It's very difficult to say anything decisive about Brexit at this point because the Tories are in such a mess".

We also read a great deal of criticism by others that we are not "consulting" with some of our allies (i.e., "agreeing with them not to do anything decisive") or that we are "unilateralists" (following the path U.S. interests require, even when others do not agree).

I'd be very surprised if comfort was actually provided by Hilary Benn going on This Week with an Auschwitz tie-pin, but the conversation has only been able to grow to this feverish point in the absence of anything decisive from Corbyn's office.

Berlin knows after four years of experience that it won't confront anything like "decisive action" from Washington that might make it less comfortable doing what it pleases.

Despairingly, both are compounded by the incapacity of successive governments to deal with the Muslims' role in France with anything like decisive engagement.

But before Karpov commits to anything as decisive as an advance, he manoeuvres, getting his pieces exactly where he wants them, neutralising his opponent's chances of counterplay.

Consider, for example, this description of children returning home after a long, exhausting day: "They would have been to school, then on to the juku, the night-time crammer, and after that would have aimlessly drifted, dawdling in cheap cafes and games arcades, too tired to do anything so decisive as going home.

The question of regulation was raised, but nobody said anything particularly decisive.