Sentence examples for decisive without from inspiring English sources

"We won't coalesce with the SNP" has the merit of sounding decisive without actually being a hostage to fortune, but for those out of the Westminster bubble – the majority of voters – it will sound credible enough.

To chat someone up successfully on public transport you need to be quick-thinking and decisive without being aggressive.

"You could call it efficient multilateralism — the recognition that if you link diplomacy, law, and force, you can achieve decisive results without using decisive force".

Having prophesied a decisive success without "heavy losses," he had lost 325,000 men and inflicted no comparable damage on the Germans.

When that happens, patients get the verve required for decisive action without getting the feeling that they can beat their problems.

Britain is said to benefit from decisive government, without the gridlock that the separation of powers frequently imposes on American presidents.

But the chances of a decisive result without some sort of target being agreed are small, after Yorkshire's first innings gave them a lead of 34 with just a day left.

And while his campaign team — which itself was shaken up a few months ago, and now includes feistier outsiders with few ties to Mr. Thompson's Brooklyn machine roots — remains bullish about his odds, aides no longer talk solely about the demographic mathematical combinations that will propel him to a decisive victory without the need for a runoff.

Although the patient unfortunately died of acute heart failure due to IE, decisive diagnosis without delay was required for performing adequate treatment.

Analysis of these issues is beyond the scope of this paper, and it is difficult to come to a decisive conclusion without further clarification and refinement.

His characters are direct; they take decisive action without regard for the consequences.