Sentence examples for decisive that is from inspiring English sources

The response was swift and decisive: "That is a big no-no," an aide responded.

In effect, both countries would simultaneously deter a first strike by the other, since a first strike would not be decisive (that is, eliminate the nuclear weapons of the other), and incurring such devastating losses from the adversary's retaliatory strike would be unacceptable.

They tipped the scales and put George W. Bush back in the White House in 2004 and conservatives are giddy at the thought that they could have a decisive impact on the 2012 election; decisive, that is, for the GOP.

These standards should promote needed outcomes (e.g., "make decisions") without prescribing behaviors (e.g., "is decisive") that are countercultural to many peoples.

Alves's stop had been decisive: that was the moment that game, and maybe even the season, might have changed, tilting from Valencia to Sevilla.

Is it drop goals in general or just that last decisive one that is the problem?

However, unlike normal monomers and oligomers, toxic oligomers can cause membrane-perforating toxicity, which is a decisive factor that is indicative of the cell cytotoxicity in diabetes models.

The Instrumentality (PAQ-I) scale contains instrumental traits (e.g. 'independent', 'decisive') that are considered to be socially desirable to some degree in both sexes but stereotypically more characteristic of males.

But occasionally the results of a single study are so decisive that it is brought to a halt early, the results are announced, and doctors change their advice to patients based on the findings.

The concern, among Afghan and international observers, is that fraud may have been decisive — that it was widespread enough to swing the election.

It would be useful to know what data should be obtained to convert an indecisive to a decisive data set, or to convert one that is decisive with low probability to one that is decisive with high probability.