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But in a decisive span of the second quarter, the United States had dunks on eight of nine field goals to turn the game into a rout.

AMOMAR had a chance to participate in the development of the management plan, but not in a decisive role.

Raina was dropped twice, on seven and 28, but remained undefeated in a decisive partnership of 66 in barely eight overs.

But in a potentially decisive twist in the final hour, England removed captain Michael Clarke, Steven Smith and Phil Hughes in the space of 18 balls to reduce the tourists to 174-6 athehe close, still 137 runs adrift of the finish line.

But he is a commander in a decisive battle in Syria — hardly a marginal figure.

The outcome of this conference final had been all but determined four days earlier, in a decisive victory by Atlanta United before 70,016 fans at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Belgium needs to combat terrorism in a decisive but careful way -- so not to further polarize society or strengthen resentment of alienated and frustrated youth.

The Tunisian-Belgian scholar Chams Eddine Zaougui writes from Brussels that, "Belgium needs to combat terrorism in a decisive but careful way -- so as not to further polarize society or strengthen resentment of alienated and frustrated youth".

Mr. Coleman was a revelation when Mr. Bley first heard him because he was exploring the same areas as those New York composers, but doing it on the spot, in a decisive victory for improvisation.

But Mr. Chirac, it seems, sees France in a decisive struggle to assert its relevance in the new world defined by the end of the cold war, the emergence of the United States as the sole superpower and the changes wrought in Europe by both German unification and by the imminent expansion of the European Union.

But E.U. officials wanted to demonstrate that they are capable of behaving in a decisive manner.