Sentence examples for decisively pushed from inspiring English sources

As a result, Taiwan's minor parties were effectively eliminated, and Taiwan was decisively pushed to a two-party political system.

This was done in part to neutralize opposition to the Bush global free-trade agenda, but since that agenda has not been fully spelled out or decisively pushed, the steel protection act stands out alone.

Beleaguered residents stepped out of their homes for the first time in days, unsure if the insurgents who had been hammering Somalia's weak transitional government had been decisively pushed back or if the lull was simply another pause to regroup and reload.

Neither side has the men or the firepower needed to decisively push out the other.

Despite his personal popularity, Mr. Koizumi failed to get the popular mandate that could help him decisively push through economic and political reforms against the conservatives in his own Liberal Democratic Party.

Trump, who is blamed for siding with Sunni Saudi Arabia against Shi'a Iran, is apparently the last hope for Riyadh to decisively push back its nemesis Iran.

Second, the 19th-century timeline has been pushed decisively into the 20th century.

He has successfully pushed a decisively conservative agenda through the legislature, often over the veto of Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat.

They lost control of a critical scrum against seven men, they panicked, they twice kicked the ball away aimlessly, once pathetically over the Munster goal line by Chris Ashton, and passed up numerous chances to score the converted try that could have pushed them decisively clear.

But the bank acted decisively last night, pushing the rate on 7-day repos to 10% (from a theoretical 5.25%) and overnight rates by more than four percentage points.

Improbably but decisively, the thousands of doorbells pushed, the time away from his girls, the midnight call to Mr. Monaghan, had all paid off.