It might have been different, perhaps, if Faveez Maharoof had accepted either of two early chances when Gibbs pulled to square leg and drove to extra cover, but both opportunities were wasted and the lucky No 3 slowly found some form during a decisive partnership of 70 with AB de Villiers.
He cannot do otherwise, because he faces a situation in which even inaction would be a form of decisive action, for it would guarantee that Sharon would either topple him directly or create the conditions for Hamas to finish the job.
The presence of oxygen under oxidic form WOx, has a decisive influence on the reaction mechanisms.
"There are times that I have suggested a level of ruthlessness, or a certain form of decisive action that might be jarring, because I feel that is the world in which this show exists, but there are times when we change something because we feel it is gratuitous.
This essay became an integral part of Persecution and the Art of Writing and far from an obscure relic of an interest in things Jewish and medieval, Strauss's reference to this essay forms a decisive part of his argument in Natural Right and History.
Analysts noted that some of the drivers of market sentiment in recent weeks — including economic data and the prospect for some form of decisive action in Europe — were uninspiring.
Financial historians warned that the bans in 2008 did not work and that such measures were often driven more by political concerns — the need to display some form of decisive action — than by proved market theories.
Indeed, there is something of Marcello Mastroianni in Moravia's protagonists: they present an endless series of self-loathing, conflicted men who aspire to make art or take some form of decisive action, but who instead are thwarted and trapped by their own lack of nerve; often, they analyze their own failings with great lucidity, creating elaborate psychological monuments to their own passivity.
The presence of these networks and the effectiveness of their actions acquire ever more decisive weight as they are gradually transformed into forms of organisation able to play a decisive role in fundamental policy decision-making (Peyrache-Gadeau and Fleury 2005; Janin and Perron 2005; Souchard 2003; Corrado 2010).
They tried to appeal to upper-class audiences by emphasising royalist political and social ideals: monarchy is the natural form of government; patriarchal authority decisive in education and marriage; and patrilineality preeminent in inheritance and ownership of property.
