Sentence examples for decisive encounter from inspiring English sources

The Austrian high command, on the other hand, became irresolute and demoralized before a decisive encounter had even taken place.

The decisive encounter, according to the authors of "Taken for a Ride," a book about the merger, lasted exactly 17 minutes.

City visit Chelsea next Saturday for what is shaping up to be a decisive encounter in the title race and Pellegrini does admit he is concerned about his side's form at present, with no wins in their past three games.

Under Cleon's brash leadership, Athens' fortunes began to oscillate between surprise victories, like the capture of a tenth of all Sparta's citizen soldiers on the islet of Sphacteria in 425, and unnecessary defeats, like the debacle at Delium in 424, the outcome of a rash effort to force a decisive encounter.

Yet in the run-up to the decisive encounter, dreams of toppled giants run rampant.

Gaugamela would be the final and decisive encounter between the two.

That having been said, this competition had only nine decisive encounters.

The Raptors can look back on recent history, having won their last three games at home against the Knicks -- including two decisive encounters this season.

But the vast surge and counter-surge of warfare between England and France, in which these battles were decisive encounters, has dulled down to that memorably named but imperfectly understood tract of history known as the hundred years war.

28, 1640), decisive military encounter in the Bishops' War, in which an army of Scottish invaders defeated the English forces of Charles I and captured Newcastle, forcing the king to convene parliament and sacrifice unpopular policies and ministers.

Wearing their famous red and blue kit, Steau met Dynamo Kyiv in a decisive Europa League encounter in Bucharest, but were disappointed when a crowd of under 8,000 turned up, even though ticket prices started at £5 and the players expected 50,000 supporters at the National Arena.