All the same, with many reform candidates remaining among the thousands of Iranians competing for the 290 parliamentary seats, many believe that the balloting on Feb. 18 could still shift the balance of power against the hard-liners who control decisive centers of authority in the army, the police and the judiciary.
Mr. Cheney has built a cohesive group of foreign policy experts, a group that may become a decisive power center.
Her voice was keenly expressive throughout but also decisive and centered, which made it not only beautiful but firm, the voice of someone whose capacity to feel is equaled by her determination to survive.
It is difficult to review because, as Walter Benjamin once said of El Greco, "the gesture remains the decisive thing, the center of the event," and the gesture "tears open the sky behind" it.' To review Fish feels ungenerous because it requires indifference to the undeniable power of his gesture and demands instead attention to the details of his argument.
This series was also called Pro Musica, and it, too, had a decisive personality at the center.
If the Sixers win Friday in the energized First Union Center, the decisive Game 7 will be Sunday in Indianapolis.
According to the plan, the French troops would attack and recapture the Pratzen Heights, then from the Heights they would launch a decisive assault to the center of the Allied army, cripple them, and encircle them from the rear.
Underlining in pencil the throughout the volume centers around decisive moments and noteworthy passages – "instructive virtues" that Miller hoped to impart.
The IJN still considered the First Air Fleet an integral component in the Combined Fleet's Kantai Kessen or "decisive battle" task force centered on battleships.
But he delivered the decisive vote for a hiring center for immigrant day laborers over vehement opposition.
