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He saw James Harden forgo the Kevin Durant option late in the shot clock and drain a step-back, decisive 3-pointer with 28.8 seconds left with the Spurs' Kawhi Leonard almost close enough to perform laser eye surgery.

Pick: Texans Cardinals (3-2) at 49ers (3-2) 4:25 p.m. Sunday Line: 49ers by 11 Many seemed to write off San Francisco after back-to-back decisive losses to the Colts and the Seahawks, coupled with Aldon Smith's absence since entering rehabilitation for alcohol abuse.

Storming runs was turned back by decisive, try-saving defence by Milford and Reed and plenty of their mates.

Some influential figures believe the party should back a decisive in-or-out vote, perhaps even pre-emptively.Will Straw of IPPR, a centre-left think-tank, explains the reasoning.

There has been frustration along the way, but in his last tilt at the title in Ponferrada, north-west Spain, he at last wrestled the monkey from his back, in decisive style, winning by 26 seconds from the favourite and defending champion, Tony Martin of Germany.

The NRA would not be defeated, however, and the push back was decisive.

Republicans are currently entrenched, backed by decisive majorities of white voters.

It is the most explicit expression of the Republican agenda, endorsed by the party's presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, and backed by decisive majorities of House and Senate Republicans.

The prime minister has also been under pressure from the Americans and his Iraqi critics to distance himself politically from Mr. Sadr, whose backing was decisive in Mr. Maliki's campaign for prime minister last year.

Although many of its members were undoubtedly energised by his unabashedly xenophobic rhetoric, Trump's share of the vote that year was not markedly different from Mitt Romney's in 2012, and it is unlikely that the far right's backing was decisive to the outcome.

But global management by the UN alone has failed to translate the concept of collective security into a predictable policy backed by decisive and credible actions.

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