It risks making decisive action look more impactful than decisive speech and allowing those murders – both with specific motives – stand for anything and everything.
Since the argument over the underground was central to the mayoral election, Mr Livingstone's decisive victory looked like a vote against the government's plan.Ministers had initially planned to impose the PPP and had drawn up the contracts so that the mayor could not interfere.
The "best political team on television" appears disconcertingly unfazed.8 02 : CNN has exits from Ohio showing a pretty decisive-looking 56%-42% lead for Hillary.
By the end of the second quarter the gulf not just in skill-levels but in the striking athletic grace of these elite NBA players was evident as the USA opened up a decisive-looking 56-42 lead.
Instead, he ended up looking decisive and principled to the public at a moment when those qualities were seen as lacking in both parties' leaders, said Mr. Coorey, the journalist.
Not because they were in any danger of missing their flights – as it turned out – but because, as the man would loudly declaim, not looking decisive in airports was something he could not abide.
Many voters are attracted to McCain's quick, decisive, "don't look back" decision-making and fancy that someone who acts in that way will keep them secure.
James Castle, chairman of the International Business Chamber of Indonesia, which represents foreign investors in the country, said business executives were looking for decisive action by the Indonesian government in response to the Bali explosions.
The main battle is likely to be in midfield – the Lions are hoping Liam Trotter passes a late fitness test while Wigan will be looking for decisive displays from Shaun Maloney and Jordi Gómez, their top scorer in the FA Cup so far.
It is a system in which it is safer to look "decisive", by making a botched decision on thin advice, than to be called a "ditherer".
And while Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, needs a decisive victory to establish his security credentials with the public, it is far from clear what a sufficiently decisive one would look like.
