When Sierra went missing, the local "polis" acted decisively by forming a special investigation unit whose sole focus was to find her and her abductor.
And in a break from previous years, when support formed decisively around a single film, the organization behind the Globes spread its love unusually widely, giving one trophy each to nine other pictures, including "The Help," "Hugo" and "Midnight in Paris".
Of these, the rivers probably have been of the greatest historical and cultural significance, for waterways have decisively shaped forms of settlement and agriculture, determined fundamental political and economic patterns, and helped define the nature of Southeast Asians' worldview and distinctive cultural syncretism.
In 1912 Lenin, leading a very small minority, formed a distinct Bolshevik organization, decisively (although not formally) splitting the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Partyy.
They formed an alliance with disgruntled northerners and attacked government forces in 2012, routing them decisively.
The pact was formed between the center-right Convergence and Union party and Republican Left, which are usually at loggerheads, after each failed to win decisively in last month's election.
On the big economic questions, the Obama Administration set its course early and decisively in the form of the $787 billion stimulus package and the recapitalization of the banking system on terms eminently favorable to Wall Street.
But they were decisively outvoted by those who felt that forcing Mr. Sharon to form a narrow right-wing coalition would be dangerous for Israel at a particularly difficult moment in its history.
"Wherever threats are forming against the civilized world, we will respond and respond decisively," he said.
Tony Blair wanted to form one in 1997, but the fact that Labour won so decisively ruled that out.
