Sentence examples for decisive close from inspiring English sources

With it, the faith's first period of flowering came to a decisive close (though its actual decline had, of course, begun earlier).

NEW ORLEANS — In a verdict that brought a decisive close to a case that has haunted this city since most of it lay underwater nearly six years ago, five current and former New Orleans police officers were found guilty on all counts by a federal jury on Friday for shooting six citizens, two of whom died, and orchestrating a wide-ranging cover-up in the hours, weeks and years that followed.

A decisive close projects an image of you as assertive, confident, and decisive.

Upon Natorp's death the following summer,[4] Heidegger assumed his chair, thus bringing the department's Kantian orientation to a decisive close.

Virginia Woolf was good at last lines and was always a decisive closer.

Lots of people felt soberly that this new leadership meant the decisive closing of a chapter in the history of the Party--the final farewell to the last surviving officers, Attlee and Herbert Morrison, of the impregnable Old Guard.

Monaghan's Kieran Hughes was dismissed on 48 minutes but they levelled at 0-9 to 0-9 and 0-12 to 0-12 before Tyrone hit the decisive closing points.

Finally, the result, while decisive, was close enough to mean the minority cannot be brushed aside.

What else needs to happen for them to take a decisive step: close it, sell it, just get out of it?" Siemens, he said, has always measured success by its ability to win orders and grab market share.

In areas "where the emigrant vote can be decisive in close contests, candidates have sufficient incentives to carry their electoral campaigns abroad, which means that absentee voters will then be no less exposed to candidates and issues than the electorate at home" (Bauböck, 2003, p. 714).

While this might not seem like much, it can be decisive in close elections.