Sentence examples for decisive act of from inspiring English sources

One decisive act of statesmanship could drastically turn this picture around.

Downing Street called it 'a big, decisive act of leadership', proof that New Labour would govern as it promised.

'This is serious business,' he added, outlining what promises to be the last decisive act of his presidency.

With Strauss, more than many other composers, this translation requires a particularly strong and decisive act of the interpretive imagination.

Becoming Bree is to be the decisive act of Stanley's life and the movie's epilogue is positive in a tentative way, but no more than moderately hopeful.

It feels like the final, decisive act of auto-infanticide for Radcliffe and Harry Potter: the Kid is dead; long live the King.

Thus, all the decisive acts of God are accomplished "by the Father in the Son, through the Holy Spirit".

He should react to threats with rapid and decisive acts of violence, and shouldn't be afraid to be feared rather than loved by his citizens.

The social world is generated by decisive acts of inspiration and history and is, inter alia, a tapestry of inspired and unpredictable acts.

In this, he transposed the dialectical process through which Hegel accounted for the overcoming of cognitive antinomies in the emergence of self-consciousness into an analysis of cognitive formation which sees the resolution of reason's antinomies as effected through vital experiences, decisive acts of self-confrontation, or communicative transcendence.

Every bit as harrowing as its predecessor, Lord Jim hovers over the mystery of Jim's fateful, impulsive leap, unfurling from this decisive act ever more pleated layers of motive and rationale, until at last laying flat nothing surer than the sense that "no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge".