My middle son's reply to his brother — "Now I'm about to punch you" — provided a decisive answer: probably not.
According to the diary of Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita, the Emperor, looking for a decisive battle (tennōzan), replied that it was premature to seek peace "unless we make one more military gain".
But the visitors reply was decisive with Wales and Lions wing Cuthbert running in a superb solo effort from the halfway line, which Halfpenny converted, to haul the 14-man Blues back to within seven points.
"What's decisive here," Mr. Haneke replied, "is that I depict the conditions that have to be in place for people to be receptive to ideology, be willing to clutch at any straw whatever that will allow them to get out of the extremely difficult situation they're in.
Its user interface is inspired by gesture-based mobile apps like Mailbox, letting you quickly move through your message list by taking decisive actions, like archive, delete, reply or even send to Evernote or Dropbox, for example.
Celtic's reply was immediate and decisive.
The biographer of Chopin, Frederick Niecks, sought Alkan for his recollections in 1880 but was sternly denied access by Alkan's concierge – "To my ... enquiry when he could be found at home, the reply was a ... decisive 'Never'".
Defenders like William Hasker and Stephen Wykstra reply that these cases are not decisive counter-examples to the claim that there is a good God.
His reply, in the local tongue, is recognizably decisive.
But the Saints reply was not only swift but also decisive, opting for a line-out with a penalty deep in Sharks territory, which gave Nutley the opportunity to spin off the subsequent maul for a try that Will Hooley converted.
