Sentence examples for decisive gamble from inspiring English sources
"France, Great Britain, Europe, will always stand by the side of the Libyan people," said Sarkozy, whom many Libyans credit with making a decisive gamble, pulling in a hesitant United States and securing UN backing for Nato air strikes to halt Gaddafi's tanks as they closed in to crush Benghazi.
He is formidably energetic, ready to take a gamble, decisive, charming and gifted, with a popular touch that can reap rich dividends in Italy.
Almost 18 months into his four-year term, Mr. Schroder is gambling that his decisive measures to open and deregulate Germany will revitalize the economy and bring down an unemployment rate that has stubbornly exceeded 10percentt.
A decisive issue remains whether the government legalises gambling; if it does not, racing will have to depend on sponsors.Similarly, the transfer of many great horses from west to east may erode the supremacy of British bloodstock.
The impairment of hedonic capacity, possibly resulting in an underlying neuropsychological dysfunction, may be decisive in determining the engagement in frequent and repeated episodes of gambling, which represent a compensatory attempt to counterbalance a tonic state of anhedonia, despite negative consequences [ 21].
Spain had gambled its own prosperity and its American treasure, and with it its own hegemony over the European continent, on a decisive victory over the heretics in western Europe, and it had failed.
A decisive consultative vote would be binding for a'that, sources say.The same sources say that talk of a precise 18-month deadline for holding a vote is also missing the main thrust of the British government's gamble.
