Sentence examples for decisive but from inspiring English sources

This makes the ruler's will decisive, but note that his authority rests on a popular decision.

The moment is absolutely decisive, but it is something other than what we thought it was.

That needn't be decisive, but it's too important to be ignored.

He was decisive but not dogmatic, and he was not arrogant.

Its opening bars (which quote Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony) are decisive but destabilizing: Major key, or minor?

Our military involvement in Syria was intended not to be decisive but to send a message.

Kneejerk blame may look decisive, but it destroys the flow of information.

"I don't think it's decisive, but it serves to identify him," Dawson said.

"They are an important factor, not decisive, but an important component," he said.

The contours of the next presidential contest are beginning to take shape.Mr Sarkozy's result was decisive but not crushing.

I believe the commissioner must act in a decisive-but-fair manner.