Sentence examples for decide the battle from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Sires said a vote to decide the battle could come as early as Friday.

4 In this fashion then he formed the left wing, with which he intended to decide the battle.

Voters are taking to the polls to decide the battle between Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe.

The latter was compiled during the reign of Li Shimin, and therefore enhances his own role, having him decide the battle in a cavalry charge, while denigrating the role of both his father and his elder brother Li Jiancheng, whom Li Shimin would murder and supplant on the throne.

Cambridge historian Prof Brendan Simms has just issued a short account, The Longest Afternoon, arguing that the 400 men who held the farm "decided the battle of Waterloo".

Yesterday all but decided the battle for the red-and-white polka dot jersey awarded to the best mountain climber, as Richard Virenque's legs failed to rise to the challenge.

An able officer, he had progressed from colonel of the King's guards to general by 1632, and, on Gustavus' death at the Battle of Lützen (Nov. 16, 1632), he took command and decided the battle against the forces of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II.

"About 45% of the men with whom Wellington started the battle spoke German of one sort or another, and the proportion increased with every Prussian formation reaching the scene", writes Brendan Simms in his riveting book, The Longest Afternoon, the 400 Men who Decided the Battle of Waterloo.

Mistaking the movement of wounded men and empty ammunition wagons from Wellington's centre for a weakening of the front, just after 4 00 pm Ney brought up Édouard-Jean-Baptiste Milhaud's two divisions of cavalry to seize, as he thought, that chance of deciding the battle.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel could have been talking about the market when he said, "Speed of reaction in command decides the battle".

Although heavily outnumbered, the Spanish cavalry and firearms decided the battle.