It would also help greatly to hire a decisive TV match official; American sports are used to in-play breaks but some recent delays for TMO referrals in rugby have made the notoriously stop‑start Super Bowl feel like the Olympic 100 metres final.
But a search for turning points in intra-German post-war history shows that the People's Revolt in the GDR on 17 June 1953 (the date would be the West's national commemorative holiday until reunification) had a significant impact on anticommunist culture in West Germany and a decisive effect on official anticommunist counter-intelligence activities.
He was inclined to see the struggle as a test of wills, which he could win by striking a decisive blow, the officials said.
Qatar has deployed ground forces in Yemen for the first time, dispatching 1,000 troops to battle Shiite rebels in an oil-rich central province where both sides are gearing up for what could prove a decisive battle, Yemeni officials said Monday.
After a decade of NATO efforts was unable to bring about a decisive victory, U.S. officials began to back a scenario under which that group might return to power in some way.
Under the title "The Decisive Battle," an Iraqi official in a military uniform appeared on the screen between songs to announce that the speech was about to begin.
And on September 11, there were succeeding rallies by middle class citizens and students to encourage further reforms and decisive prosecution of corrupt officials.
The pledge by Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu to set up an anti-corruption bureau and to take decisive action against state officials who do business with government, either directly or through their families, should be embraced.
"He's provided very useful but not decisive information," an American counterterrorism official said on Wednesday.
"It shouldn't surprise anyone that links between plots and those who are orchestrating them lead to decisive American action," a US official told Reuters.
