That not-exactly-decisive strike in Washington's 15 years of war in the ever more chaotic Greater Middle East against... well, you tell me what or whom... was but a drop in the bucket.
If "not exactly a decisive battle", Gettysburg was the end of Confederate use of Northern Virginia as a military buffer zone, the setting for Grant's Overland Campaign.
And from the perspective of Corzine administration critics, what is the likelihood that an administration not exactly known for being decisive would have the ability, or the foresight, to plan to have Mr. Lonegan arrested?
He adds, "From the first-person perspective of the novel, there arises, in the film, an actress, whom we see, in decisive situations, exactly as the spectators in the twelve districts experience it".
"This is exactly why we took decisive action to start the process of closing these homes".
War is death, slaughter, chaos, dumb luck and bigger numbers, and it is only afterward that it gets clear the big numbers of what exactly turned out to be decisive.
"It was a bold and decisive move and was exactly what the market needed," Mr. Lewis said in an interview.
Instead, in granting Harper's request, she has given the Conservatives exactly what they want, including a decisive advantage in the campaign to come.
Decisive action just might.
We cannot say exactly if the language has been a decisive factor in this evaluation.
The irony, analysts say, is that Mr Modi portrays himself as exactly the kind of confident, ambitious and decisive leader the US would want to be on its side in a rapidly changing world.
