ING conceded defeat today after HSBC, in swift and decisive moves, obtained approval from the French central bank and from 58percentt of Credit Commercial's shareholders.
Her persistence became a decisive factor in House approval of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution in 1970.
His approval, a decisive victory for frustrated Democrats who pushed to establish the agency in the aftermath of the financial crisis, will expand the powers of the new watchdog agency, allowing it to move forward with plans to regulate a variety of consumer lending programs.
After a bill-signing ceremony at the White House a few weeks ago, President Clinton pulled aside an unlikely ally in his fight to win approval for a decisive trade measure with China, the administration's top foreign policy goal.
These were followed by a successful combination of NATO bombings of Serbia, the threat of NATO ground offensive, and the delivery of the sealed indictments from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against President Slobodan Milosevic and Vice President Milan Milutinovic -- all without UN Security Council approval, but with decisive United States leadership.
She said approval by Cabinet was a "decisive step which allows us to move on and finalize the deal in the days ahead".
"Maybe it was the decisive preparations for Irene - Bloomberg's job approval has moved up nicely.
In the period of the euphoria that followed, the new military administration enjoyed high public approval, since the military had played a decisive role in ending the Mubārak regime.
Any sort of clear and decisive leadership at the FDA is likely to speed approvals up in the long run, at least for life-threatening diseases that have few good drugs.
WASHINGTON — An arms control treaty paring back American and Russian nuclear arsenals won a decisive vote in the Senate on Tuesday, clearing it for final approval and handing President Obama an important foreign policy victory.
