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Discover Ludwig"decisive mistakes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a mistake that had a significant negative impact on an outcome. For example: "The team's decisive mistake at the end of the match cost them the victory."
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After Victor's early death (1057), however, the politically inept empress committed a number of decisive mistakes.
We need to know the decisive mistakes which destroyed RBS, how they came to be made, whether the FSA was asleep at the wheel, and whether we can have confidence that they are awake now," Tyrie said.
Ultimately, though, that did not mean a huge amount when Chelsea made so many decisive mistakes, each leading to a goal, at key points of the match, just as they had done in the first leg.
"We support showing exciting plays but not slow- motion or repetitive images of plays that highlight questionable decisions by referees". While accepting Italy had been unlucky to be knocked out, Blatter urged restraint on the part of Italy's outraged team, officials and supporters, saying that not only the officials but their players had made decisive mistakes.
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Karl, like Marguc before him, makes a decisive mistake and Prommegger takes that one.
Duval made a decisive mistake at No. 13 that year, hitting his second shot into the water, which led to a bogey.
Lallana hit a post with another left-foot shot and the irony of Kozacik's late, decisive mistake was that he had made a string of saves to keep the game goalless.
He compared his team's mistake to that of "a surgeon who makes a decisive error".
Your example, to "…promote needed outcomes (e.g., "make decisions") without prescribing behaviors (e.g., "is decisive") is mistaken.
James, the Burnley winger who was Alastair Campbell's boyhood hero, earned and scored the decisive penalty after a comical mistake from Emlyn Hughes.
In the 67th minute, Ronaldo scored the first, and decisive, goal, on a rudimentary mistake by Germany's Oliver Kahn, who had allowed only one goal the entire tournament and was considered the best at his position in the world.
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