On his first trip to Europe, last month, he made an impressive speech in Warsaw in which he argued that the European Union and NATO, those key institutions of Europe and the West, should grow decisively eastward.
Within their separate ranks, the families faced a common challenge: as generations passed and ownership became dispersed among siblings and cousins, it grew harder to act decisively.
So even while public support for same-sex marriage has grown swiftly and decisively, the forces of the religious right have countered by trying to expand what counts as religious freedom and where it can be applied.
Inevitably, the pressure on the President to step in more decisively is growing.
This map from the Cai paper shows the patterns of population gains and losses in the state: The fastest growing counties have moved decisively in a Democratic direction.
The disappointment only grew in subsequent decades, as Congress seemed less and less able to act decisively and legislate coherently.
Meantime, it's clear that the slaughter in Paris has managed to change the public policy subject, decisively, away from growing doubts over the wisdom of the endlessly renewable, insanely expensive, surveillance state that much of the non-jihadist world has drifted into since 2001.
The Union must be able to act more decisively in combating growing transfrontier crime and drug trafficking.
He suggested that another reason companies had not acted decisively could be a growing sense among industry experts that the threat of cyberterrorism had been overstated.
Stead had grown up in Australia and fled the country decisively in 1928, at the age of 25.
The charities want an end to council tax hikes that exceed actual increases in local authority spending and warns the government that it will face a growing pensioner rebellion if it doesn't act decisively.
