Sentence examples for decisively claim from inspiring English sources

Just six weeks before the first votes are cast, no candidate has been able to decisively claim the mantle of front-runner.

Yet it was also a night when neither Mr. Obama nor Mrs. Clinton could decisively lay claim — or even secure an edge — to the nomination, assuring an electoral fight that will unfold for weeks to come.

This stems less from a lack of money or materials than the vastness of the disaster and the Haitian government's continued failure to move swiftly and decisively to identify and claim land for resettlement.

In effect, Cohen now decisively rejects Kant's claim that sensible intuition is the capacity that immediately relates objects to the knower (Kant 1998 [1781/1787], A19/B33).

The island changed hands fourteen times, until the British claimed it decisively, in 1814.

In that earlier book Ms. Smith took a contemporary London mapped by writers like Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi and claimed it decisively as her own.

But it is the nature of abusive systems to deny that there are any abuses, and to move swiftly and decisively to silence anyone who claims otherwise.

However, terminating judgements, Lewis claimed, although not decisively verifiable, are decisively falsifiable.

"This report decisively refutes the Chinese government's claim that it handled the protests in line with international standards and domestic laws," she said.

KING SOLOMON, relates the Bible, acted wisely and decisively when faced with two women claiming the same baby: his threat to cut it in half swiftly revealed the real mother.

The poll came as the president's top campaign advisers accused Romney of desperation on Sunday as they claimed the race was moving decisively in Obama's direction.