Sentence examples for decisive gains from inspiring English sources

LONDON — After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, the Conservative Party was headed toward big, though not necessarily decisive, gains in Britain early on Friday.

Democrats also made decisive gains in congressional elections, gaining a net 21 House seats (for a 257 178 advantage) and picking up at least 7 Senate seats, or a 58 41 majority.

But comments by administration officials in Washington and a senior NATO official in Brussels on Wednesday indicated that the United States was doing more to encourage a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan than officials had previously disclosed, and might reflect growing pessimism that the buildup of American forces there will produce decisive gains against the Taliban insurgency.

More cautious than Drudge, however, Zogby says that it's too early to declare that McCain has made decisive gains over Obama.

However, in order to make decisive gains, the Ottomans had to take the city quickly, as a large Imperial army, raised in Germany, reinforced by Spanish troops and led by the Emperor Charles V himself was approaching in support of Ferdinand.

The cut-off value of 50 mcg/L for ferritin is useless, because the test looses sensitivity, without a decisive gain in specificity, while anaemia is, as expected, a little more sensitive for gastrointestinal cancer in these patients with IWL than in other patients, but not sensitive enough to rule out the disease.

The governing United Progressive Alliance is weak and wounded by scandal; the main opposition party is deeply divided over who will lead it: "This multidimensional crisis in the Union government and the ruling party ought to have spurred the opposition to concerted political action that would have brought decisive political gains.

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Though the third place Raymond Reierson threw his support to the Transportation Minister before the second ballot, the results on this were decisive: Strom gained the support of more than a hundred new delegates and won a clear majority.

"The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage".

By the time Marlborough had closed down the Ramillies campaign he had denied the French most of the Spanish Netherlands west of the Meuse and north of the Sambre – it was an unsurpassed operational triumph for the English Duke but once again it was not decisive as these gains did not defeat France.