Sentence examples for decisive to prevent from inspiring English sources

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But the Australian, cleared of wrongdoing in April after a positive test for clenbuterol, made his move and it proved decisive to prevent Voeckler from extending his unbeaten run at Bagneres-de-Luchon.

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It is essential for the international community, led by the United States, to take decisive action to prevent a pandemic.

Instead of taking decisive action to prevent a repeat, ministers have ruled out tough action," Hunt said.

Within it, land use planners are labelled as 'strawberry fools' by both sides for failing, until recently, to provide decisive regulation to prevent conflict and effect its resolution.

The Government could take decisive action to prevent further climate change and it could put pressure on other countries to do the same.

In a telephone conversation with Herman Van Rompuy, European council president, Wen said: "The most urgent task is to take decisive measures to prevent the debt crisis spreading further and avoid financial market turbulence, a recession and fluctuations in the euro".

He has urged European leaders, most recently in last week's teleconference call that was a follow-up to the Group of 8 summit at Camp David last month, to take decisive steps to prevent a collapse.

Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat who is a member of the committee, said, "The project's costs appear to be rising sky-high," adding that "Congress needs to take more decisive action to prevent further money down the drain".

Last week, the World Health Organisation and the UK Health Forum told a conference in Prague that almost three-quarters of men and two-thirds of women in the UK would be overweight or obese in 15 years time, part of a Europe-wide health crisis that they said could only be averted by decisive action to prevent and tackle obesity by all its governments.

Like it or not, the U.S. must take the decisive lead to prevent this turmoil from turning into an old-fashioned panic.

The World Bank President, Robert Zoellick, said the global economy was in a danger zone while David Cameron joined a call for the United States and eurozone countries to take decisive steps to prevent their economic problems causing global recession.

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