Sentence examples for decisive in the face of from inspiring English sources

Arizona senator John Mccain, who pushed for the groups to be armed two years ago, said it was "long overdue" but may no longer prove decisive in the face of more than 33,000 Isis fighters.

Anderson delivered the coup de grace for West Ham, his effort proving decisive in the face of a Palace fightback.

(Full disclosure... I'm not always so clear and decisive in the face of pushy sales tactics!).

He has been criticised for failing to take decisive action in the face of scandals in many countries.

On the one hand, Poroshenko may simply want to appear a leader in full command of the situation, taking decisive action in the face of Russian aggression.

In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to take decisive action in the face of pervasive problems.

But for years, the board shied away from decisive action in the face of community anger and accusations of racism.

Western leaders announced two major initiatives at the NATO summit in Wales on Friday, in an effort to show decisive action in the face of growing global threats.

A politician representing China's autocratic ruling communist administration appears decisive and resolute in the face of Decepticon attacks in the film, while the democratic USA's chief of staff proves himself a hapless idiot.

Gutting argues that only interim, not decisive assent is justified in the face of unresolved diversity and that "those who give merely interim assent must recognize the equal value, as an essential element in the continuing discussion, of beliefs contrary to theirs" (Gutting 1982, 108).

He took a decisive attitude to retaking the islands in the face of familiar defeatism from the Foreign Office, and other usual suspects.