Mr. Thompson said that the contrasting images of the mayor signing the term limits measure into law on Nov. 3 — "discarding" New Yorkers' vote, he said — and the election the next day of Barack Obama became a decisive influence on his decision to run for mayor.
It was one of the premier combat commands in the Marines; he flew in and out of Iraq, helping to oversee what became the decisive phase of the war.
The art of maneuver became decisive, and analysis of war was couched accordingly in terms of strategies.
These quantities are quite sensitive to the form of the decay interaction and became decisive pieces of evidence in the search for the form of the decay interaction.
Schooling was a radical innovation, at first resented and resisted; but within a generation it was accepted as a matter of course and became the decisive element in the status and self-image of the nobility.
The ability of the central government to control the peripheral and interior provinces of the Empire was reduced and the actions of the local and provincial governors became more decisive for the outcome of the war with Byzantium.
In 1989 his "Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece" argued that a new style of fighting originated among the Greek city-states in the fifth century B.C., because phalanxes of armed infantry became the decisive fighting arm and because these foot soldiers deliberately sought battles in which to annihilate their foes.
Though the Allies' economic and population advantages were largely mitigated during the initial rapid blitzkrieg attacks of Germany and Japan, they became the decisive factor by 1942, after the United States and Soviet Union joined the Allies, as the war largely settled into one of attrition.
With the journal Scrutiny which he co-founded, as well as his critical writings, Leavis became a decisive influence on generations of teachers in Britain and overseas.
Her persistence became a decisive factor in House approval of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution in 1970.
