Still, "the Olympics gives us the perfect pretext to push ahead, in reforming the cities, in making more and more decisive efforts in reducing poverty," said Mr. de Souza, the political analyst.
Many programmes, such as those in the Millennium Villages project, already show that a scaling up of primary health systems at the village level can play a decisive role in reducing child and maternal mortality.
While the so-called birthers are still out there, Obama's decision to publish his long-form birth certificate and the coverage that followed seems to have had a decisive impact in reducing the birthers to a tiny rump.
We applaud the Department of Health for taking this timely, decisive step in reducing child deaths by improving access to services for children who are severely malnourished.
It is Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has played the decisive role in recent years in reducing the influence of the strongly secular military over Turkish politics.
England emerged triumphant not because they turned out to be the superior team at all times in all departments, but because they were capable, in those decisive sessions, of reducing Australia to rapid rubble.
According to the Pentagon Papers, the advice of the group was decisive in convincing Johnson to reduce the bombing of North Vietnam.
But the agency will not downgrade the country if the government is committed to decisive action to reduce the deficit.But what constitutes decisive action?
Separately, an adviser to the central bank called for yuan reforms in "a bold and decisive" fashion to reduce the central bank's massive foreign currency buying, which has pumped excessive cash into the economy and exacerbated inflation risk.
