Sentence examples for decisive leap from inspiring English sources

But it was Wright who made the decisive leap from an architecture that drew mainly on European stylistic precedents to one that was rooted in a growing cultural self-confidence.

After 10 Tests in Allan Border's struggling team Waugh still looked like a bowling all-rounder, while it would be two years before he made the decisive leap up the order.

But the decisive leap in the evolution of Hannibal Lecter turned out to be his, let's say, appreciation of Clarice Starling, whose beauty meets his high standards and whose tantalizingly inchoate sense of herself arouses his clinical curiosity.

Yet though he grants that the cold helped sharpen farmers' tools, he doesn't quite see that the Little Ice Age coincided with the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century era that the historian Ian Morris recently (and rightly) identified as the greatest and most decisive leap forward in human prosperity that has ever taken place.

Back in the here and now, Spacey is preparing to head to Canada for an expanded World Cup that has proved controversial because it will be played on artificial surfaces but offers the women's game the opportunity to make another decisive leap in popularity and profile.

But last week, Florida's legislature and governor took a decisive leap forward.

Rooney's cross came from the right and Ibrahimovic, at 6ft 5in, was higher, stronger and more decisive in his leap than Fonte, directing an expertly angled header into the corner of Fraser Forster's goal.

A poor smash let Tsonga back into the game at 3-3 and the Frenchman grabbed the decisive break with a backhand that leapt off the net cord and hit the struggling Swiss.

Maybe he is worried that the talk of the risks brought by a "leap in the dark" will have a decisive impact unless robustly rebutted now.

Knowing this will allow us to answer the decisive question: was the origin of multicellular animals one giant leap in eukaryotic evolution or one small step for a colony-forming microorganism?

And then will come the decisive moment, a ball sent into the penalty area, a well-timed leap, a swivel of the head and a thrust of the neck.