While NATO planners considered their own forces to be technologically superior to the Soviet forces, they were nevertheless mindful that the Soviet Union had a decisive quantitative superiority in conventional forces (more tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft, and troops).
Nor did I claim that hydroelectric power alone "played a 'decisive role' in America's victory in the second world war"; I said, rather, that it was a key component of its decisive productive superiority.Moreover, the erroneous comment that Turkey's disputing southern neighbours are "in the Jordan basin" is entirely the reviewer's own insertion.
Unlike the United States, the British do not generally go for quick fixes or decisive technological superiority, and though British political leaders can display any amount of short-term hysteria when they are rattled, the security services are made of sterner – and more civil libertarian – stuff.
Shahade lost the least amount of material, but after 27 Qe5 Benjamin enjoyed a decisive one-pawn superiority.
Equally decisive was the superiority of the Roman-canonical type of procedure, with its rational rules of evidence, over the local forms of procedure involving proof by ordeal, battle, and other irrational methods.
While the recent TOR-M1 and possible S-300 acquisition of Russian defensive systems has and could further improve Iranian anti-aircraft capability, Israeli missile and aircraft superiority should be decisive in ensuring the accurate delivery of Israel's nuclear weapons to Iranian targets.
Even though the parliamentary forces only just managed to carry the day despite their numerical superiority, their victory was decisive.
Numerical superiority was not a decisive factor for the Greeks during the final assault.
The mountainous terrain and the effective use of anti-tank weapons by the retreating Germans made the Allies' superiority in armour less decisive and slowed the Allied advance north to the banks of the Arno between June and August 1944, during which time the Rhodesian tank squadrons took part in Allied victories at Castellana, Bagnoregio and Chiusi.
Decisive for the reception, however, was the superiority of the specialized training of Roman-law jurists over the empiricist methods of lay judges and practitioners of the local laws.
