Sentence examples for decisive stroke from inspiring English sources

In the summer of 1759 came the decisive stroke of the war in America.

A decisive stroke that drifted left to right and into the cup.

In a swift and decisive stroke of preventive medicine, Dr. Snow removed the handle from the pump, and the epidemic was thereby brought under control.

The final decisive stroke of the war, the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown, is to be credited chiefly to Washington's vision.

He has a brisk swing, which can look anxiously defensive, but when he makes contact, as he'd done here, still on the full count, his decisive stroke opens him up again as the ball takes flight and starts him swiftly up the line.

Ultimately, the decisive stroke was a public endorsement by the leader of the Labour party for New Zealand First, which encouraged its supporters to vote for Mr Peters.The Northland electorate suffers from high unemployment and poor infrastructure, including many kilometres of dirt roads.

Up close, one sees that their fidelity is impressionistic: Wilson worked with painterly certainty to sum up atmospheres and rock forms in a few decisive strokes.

Such bitingly humorous touches risk coming across as a bit of a queasy surprise, if the designer is covering for a lack of decisive strokes.

Then Mr. Kissinger, going for a broad, sweeping issue, says the "essence of foreign policy is the accumulation of nuance". In other words, there are no decisive strokes; we must look to "gradual transformation". Again, there seems to be general agreement.

His paintbrush is hurriedly introduced: deep, decisive brush strokes turning the bareness of the foundry into a colourful space.

Over the past several decades, the issuing of executive orders has become the standard opening act of a presidency; by bypassing the typically slow-moving checks and balances of congressional approval, an incoming chief executive can affect policy and appear decisive with the stroke of a pen.