Sentence examples for decisive hold from inspiring English sources

Dyke said it was crucial that no single individual is ever able to have a decisive hold on the operation again.

Harry Redknapp's players pleaded with the officials to reconsider, but their protests were in vain and Chelsea had taken a decisive hold on the game.

England were in control on the fourth day, lost it, got it back, lost it again and then finally, as shadows stretched across the parched Trent Bridge outfield and memories of 2005 rang ever louder in our ears, took what should be the decisive hold on a plot that has twisted like the beer snakes in the boozy stands all around.

She said it is bizarre that the pro-independence SNP opposes unionist calls for a "legal, firm and decisive referendum, held soon".

After a month-long trial, the jury vindicated him with a decisive verdict, holding BAC/CFC responsible for egregious business, human resources, and health and safety practices.

Nor is there any sign that Israeli domestic politics will soon yield a coalition different from the type Netanyahu oversees, in which uncompromising, expansionist parties hold decisive influence.

"We have taken decisive actions to hold people accountable and will do whatever is necessary to prevent anything like this from occurring ever again".

Maybe subconsciously there is a feeling that this person isn't as decisive, can't hold her own, is unsure of her arguments," she said.

Animal comparisons may still be extremely important in their own right, and because identification of what is unique about the human capacity and what is shared with other species; may hold decisive clues about how mental time travel is created in the human brain.

He said the objections of China, a long-term sponsor of the Khmer Rouge, played a decisive role in holding Cambodia back from an agreement.

Microsoft's vote was decisive because it held a stake in the AT&T cable business after making a $5 billion investment in 1999.