Sentence examples for had a decisive role from inspiring English sources
But most recent commerce secretaries have not had a decisive role in overall trade strategy or economic foreign policy.
Mr. O'Neill also does not appear to have had a decisive role in working out the terms of a stimulus package with Congress.
The turf had a decisive role to play in the opening goal with the defender Michael Dawson slipping as he attempted to prevent Piquionne from shooting.
Villas-Boas said today: "Very, very unhappy with a poor performance from the referees, which in the end had a decisive role in the result, and I don't take it very, very lightly.
In a wide-ranging interview, de Castries also compared the recent slide in the Chinese stock market to the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and said the private sector had a decisive role to play in tackling climate change.
George Whitmore Jr., an eighth-grade dropout whose confession in 1964 to three New York murders he did not commit had a decisive role in the Supreme Court's Miranda ruling protecting criminal suspects and in the partial repeal of capital punishment in New York State, died on Oct. 8 in a nursing home in Wildwood, N.J.
Systematic reviews have a decisive role in clinical decision making [5], [6].
Parliament has a decisive role in the People's Consultative Assembly, which can sack the president.
They will thus have a decisive role in shaping how Germany play and despite that they will have to adapt.
