Sentence examples for decisive tip from inspiring English sources

A18 Six hundred American soldiers and special operations forces backed by tanks, artillery and Apache helicopter gunships surrounded two rural farmhouses, and found Mr. Hussein near one of them, less than 11 hours after receiving a decisive tip.

But at 8 26 p.m. Saturday, less than 11 hours after receiving the decisive tip, 600 American soldiers and Special Operations forces backed by tanks, artillery and Apache helicopter gunships surrounded two farmhouses, and near one of them found Mr. Hussein hiding alone at the bottom of an eight-foot hole.

An even more decisive tipping would come from the use by terrorists of some form of WMD, supplied by someone emboldened by Iraqi chaos.

American war planners say no single, decisive moment tipped the scales.

Buffon then made two decisive saves, tipping a long-range Lopez shot over the bar and blocking Marek Hamsik's header at the near post.

"We can never know if the Russian dirty tricks campaign was decisive in tipping the outcome of the presidential election, but make no mistake ― Putin's real target was not the Clinton campaign or one political party, but our entire system of governance," Schiff said.

Still, the Southern victory was not decisive enough to tip the balance of power in the state.

The world's economy is precariously balanced and without confident, decisive action could tip back into another major global downturn.

A danger sign for the GOP that evangelicals would not be a decisive factor in tipping the 2008 election came when the Reverend Rick Warren had to fight to get more than a few members of his mega Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, to approve letting then presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama grace the dais at his church.

According to Herodotus, both sides wished for a decisive battle that would tip the war in their favor.

The member of the court who now probably holds the decisive vote, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, tipped his hand only a little, asking a few questions that indicated discomfort with at least some race-conscious admissions programs.