The 59-year-old secured a decisive margin in a landmark election which could disrupt relations with Beijing.
The term will also provide signals about the repercussions of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s surprise decision in June to join the court's four more liberal members and supply the decisive fifth vote in the landmark decision to uphold President Obama's health care law.
If Georgia appeals, and if the Supreme Court chooses to hear the case, the resulting decision could well be the court's most decisive statement on race since its landmark 1978 ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.
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The speech was Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's first public comment since a landmark agreement last week among Lebanon's political factions handed decisive new powers to Hezbollah and delivered a setback to allies of the United States here.
"Given his ability to direct refusal of the application were the Southbank Centre to continue with it, this is a huge and decisive step in maintaining one of London's most iconic cultural landmarks," it added.
A landmark exception, of course, came in 2000, when the networks initially gave the decisive Florida vote to Al Gore.
The Attorney General assured that the Department of Justice will not allow states to reverse the landmark progress made with the Voting Rights Act and will take strong and decisive action to thwart efforts to restrict the franchise of voting.
The belated ratification of the landmark 1993 nuclear arms reduction treaty by Russia's lower house of Parliament yesterday marks a decisive step in reversing the cold-war weapons spiral.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's decisive rejection of that plan led to a lawsuit that ended up in the United States Supreme Court, the first landmarks case ever to do so.
