The Mongols advanced through Syria without meeting serious resistance until they were halted and decisively defeated south of Damascus.
In general, these events have been called necrosis but, if they are more properly categorized as necroptosis, then the use of agents like necrostatin 1 could rescue and preserve tissue until glucocorticoids or immunosuppressives can more decisively halt the inflammation.
Since then the Sri Lankan army, aided by new Israeli hardware, has decisively halted the LTTE's advance.
The last Muslim forces had been driven from Spain in 1492; the Ottoman advance through Eastern Europe had been decisively halted at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
As the empire was reaching the limits of expansion the Muslim advance into France was decisively halted at Poitiers (732), and Arab forces in Anatolia were destroyed (740)—frontier defenses, manned by Syrian troops, were organized to meet the challenge of Turks in Central Asia and Berbers (Imazighen) in North Africa.
If the Pakistani government moved decisively to halt the insurgent activity, the war in Afghanistan would be greatly diminished.
The regional group, which picked South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, to mediate between Zimbabwe's governing and opposition parties, has come under increasing pressure to act more decisively to halt the overwhelmingly state-sponsored political violence.
The Bank of Japan, under pressure from the government to act more decisively to halt the economy's slide, said in a statement that it would add ¥11 trillion, or $138.5 billion, to an asset-buying program that has become its main monetary policy tool.
In his election campaign and since he won office, Prime Minister Abe has been arguing that Japan needs to move quickly and decisively to halt deflation.
The acting EPA administrator moved decisively and halted the program – because Boxer vowed to hold up his confirmation until the study was shut down.
Mr. Sarkozy, who has been pressuring Berlin to let the bank act more decisively to support Italy and Spain and halt a rush out of euro zone bonds and banks, said that joint proposals to modify European Union treaties would be presented ahead of a summit meeting on Dec. 9.
