Sentence examples for decisively alter from inspiring English sources

(2007, 86), and Kinzer states bluntly that Taylor Mill "did not decisively alter the course of" Mill's development (2007, 111).

Both sides thus sought out a naval victory that might decisively alter the course of the war.

Players come and go with a shrug; there is a growing appreciation now that whatever the personnel, the manager has lost the ability to prepare them in any way that could decisively alter the trajectory.

Our data explain how different isomeric states, methyl groups and carbamate linkers can independently and decisively alter the speed of SPAAC, SPIEDAC and the newly defined SPINEDAC reactions.

But we haven't decisively altered the balance of advantage away from background to merit.

Maybe it was Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco who decisively altered the general perception of Long Island, from that of a place where men in plaid Bermudas reclined on plastic chaise longues to that of a hothouse where twisted passions flowered.

To a Fault by Nick Laird 64pp, Faber, £8.99 Nick Laird was born in Co Tyrone in 1975, the year Seamus Heaney's North decisively altered the profile and topography of Ulster poetry.

Houses, particularly large ones, were broken up into smaller, more private spaces each heated by its own fireplace, a change that decisively altered the communal lifestyle of early medieval times.

Sandhu compares Phillips's "gloom" with the brio of Hanif Kureishi, but the London into which Kureishi emerged had already been decisively altered by the presence of migrants and the possibility for transformation they created in the face of overwhelming hostility and isolation.

It's a mistake to think that directors were mere staging-machines for ironclad scripts; and the greater an artist the director was, and the stronger an artistic personality the director had, the likelier it was that the script was decisively altered by that director (usually uncredited).

The study's authors were instructed not to shy away from controversy while withholding a final verdict on whether senior officials had made mistakes that decisively altered the course of the war, said Col. Timothy R. Reese, the director of the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., who, along with Donald Wright, a civilian historian at the institute, oversaw the volume's preparation.