Sentence examples for decisive stand from inspiring English sources

At the same time it could have a wider impact, allowing Brazil to take a decisive stand on human rights regionally and internationally.

Mr. Noda's popularity ratings are in the low 20s, hurt by his failure to break through the parliamentary gridlock, to stimulate the economy and, more recently, to take a decisive stand on Japan's nuclear energy policy.

It is also a sorry fact of which Arabs are only too aware that politics in Washington limits the ability of even the best-intentioned president to take a decisive stand on issues involving Israel.

BEN WALTZER -- This no-nonsense jazz pianist in the Ellington and Monk vein (who has occasionally written for Arts & Leisure) gets a big, ringing sound out of the extreme registers of the instrument; he also takes a decisive stand against the ultra-sensitive, lush-harmony tendency of so many young jazz composers.

A decisive stand or choice can give the appearance of resolution, of somehow rendering the world a little more predictable or accessible.

Despite that, the EU, due to its idiosyncrasy and its policy in education based on principles of subsidiarity, proportionality and absolute respect of national competences, has never adopted a decisive stand to favour education.

But religious conservatives have cast the campaign in California as the decisive last stand, warning in stunningly apocalyptic terms of dire consequences to the entire nation if Proposition 8 does not pass.

He and Jos Buttler shared a decisive unbroken stand of 32 to seal a thrilling victory, Michael Lumb and Alex Hales having made 50 and 42 respectively at the top of the order.

It is worth keeping in mind — indeed, it is worth harping on — that our forty-third President holds office only because a judicial order stifled the vote count in a decisive state, thereby letting stand a preliminary total that was incomplete, distorted by irregularities, at odds with the will of the national electorate, and almost certainly wrong in its outcome.

Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal is calling for a "decisive and serious stand".

He's decisive and will stand up for what he believes".