"I'm flattered, and I will do whatever I can," Mr. Eagleton told Mr. McGovern in their decisive 67-second conversation, "and I hope I don't let you down".
So, though he'd agreed to a conversation at this decisive moment, it called for wariness, the usual quota of prefatory "off-the-record"s and then some.
The caliph answered the question himself, put Averroës at ease, and sent him away with precious gifts after a long conversation that proved decisive for Averroës' career.
The president and his taped conversations provided the decisive leak.
By decisive actions, he said, he meant conversations, "substantive negotiations with publishers to make things better for both of us".
Amit Bendov, CEO and cofounder of Gong.io, told me, "Ultimately, what you do and say during sales conversations is the most decisive separator between mega-successful salespeople and average salespeople.
The particulars of the reported conversation with the Lions may prove decisive in swaying public opinion.
In fact, my most recent research, focused on the events of 1967, casts important new light on how domestic conversations about war can have a decisive effect.
So while Obama's poll rise hasn't been a topic for conversation in the presidential race so far, it could prove decisive later on.
In the same conversation he offered an unvarnished description of Mr. Thein Sein: "Not ambitious, not decisive, not charismatic, but very sincere".
