The need for decisiveness - to spend or to cut - means the lumbering luxury of state independence will go.
One explanation is that he seems to represent German voters' own divided sentiments: he is at once a member of Mr Kohl's reassuringly conservative party and an embodiment of Christian Democratic values, while having the decisiveness needed to carry out the reforms that Germans in their hearts know the country needs.
Celebrating their "speed and decisiveness", she bemoans the British political system which is "painfully slow", and "constrained by parliamentary arithmetic and the need for consensus".
In 1994, Kruglanski and Donna Webster introduced a standard way to measure the need for closure, or N.F.C.: a forty-two-item scale that looked at the five separate motivational facets that comprised our underlying tendency for clarity and resolution — namely, the preference for order, predictability, and decisiveness, discomfort with ambiguity, and closed-mindedness.
But Jokowi likely feels the need to take every opportunity to appear tough on drugs and indifferent to global outrage, given questions over his decisiveness and resolve raised in recent elections.
Thanks, in part, to Bremer's decisiveness, the political transition is going well.
"It is vital the government has the majority, the decisiveness and the strength to keep our country safe," he added.
Tsipras, whose Syriza party was elected on a platform of rejecting austerity and throwing off the yoke of the reviled "troika" – the International Monetary Fund, the European cUnion and the European Central Bank – insisted on Wednesday that an agreement was imminent, which, "will be positive for the Greek economy", and "calm and decisiveness" were now needed.
