"Decisive by" is not a correct phrase in English and is not commonly used in written or spoken language
It is possible that you may have seen this phrase used in a translation from a different language, but it is not a standard English construction. Instead, consider using phrases such as "decisive through," "decisive because of," or "decisive as a result of." Example: The team was able to secure victory through their decisive strategy.
It is a system in which it is safer to look "decisive", by making a botched decision on thin advice, than to be called a "ditherer".
It was not decisive by any means, this latest chapter in the melodrama of 2000, but not meaningless, either.
Teams can begin negotiating with free agents of other teams Saturday, and Mussina's agent, Arn Tellem, thinks he will know within a week of what direction the talks will take: how many teams are serious, if Mussina will visit those teams, etc. Mussina is decisive by nature, and he probably wouldn't warm to the idea of going on some cross-country negotiating junket for public relations purposes.
"The game is not decisive by any means.
The issue that was most often cited as decisive (by 30%) was cost: more so than the "public option," or allowing illegals to use cash for insurance (issues where Americans were evenly split).
He separated dementia from normal ageing and considered clinical signs not to be decisive by themselves for diagnosis.
This oddly distorted market place can be changed only by decisive action by the chancellor to alter the tax treatment of company cars.
Finally, UConn won a split decision with a decisive basket by Moore and the awakening of the freshman guard Bria Hartley.
It is therefore hardly surprising that the experience of the public sector reform model has been characterized by the decisive resistance by the employees, leading to delays and unplanned changes in implementation.
No. Democrats won the Presidency and the Senate by decisive margins, both state-by-state and in the popular vote.
Unsupported and acting on their own initiative, this small force led by Feldwebel Walter Rubarth opened a decisive breach by knocking out seven bunker positions.
