The momentum shifted decisively when Cech denied Ivica Olic and Bastian Schweinsteiger hit the post to leave Chelsea on the brink and present Drogba with his moment of destiny.
While England international Ford managed to pull one back, he decisively went on to miss his next two kicks, while Leroy Houston was also denied a try by the television match official.
In the end, though, those in what historians call the "Magisterial Reformation" decisively fell in line on behalf of creedal orthodoxy (roughly in line with the pro-Nicene consensus), while other groups, now described as the "Radical Reformation", either downplayed it, ignored it, or denied it as inconsistent with the Bible and reason.
"If one of us wins decisively, I think they can't deny us a title shot," Rahman said.
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.
"Satellite imagery readily available through Google Earth has certainly enabled human rights experts to decisively confirm that these facilities do exist, despite the fact that the North Korean regime denies their existence," Scarlatoiu said.
The orthodox creed that Jesus truly suffered and yet was fully divine as well as fully human was decisively influenced by early controversies over views found in Valentinian and similar traditions, which seemed to deny any real human incarnation to the divine Saviour.
As Strauss puts it rather succinctly, "On the querelle des anciens et des modernes: I do not deny, but assert, that modern philosophy has much that is essential in common with Christian medieval philosophy; but that means that the attack of the moderns is directed decisively against ancient philosophy" (CCM, p. 106).
