Sentence examples for have proved decisive from inspiring English sources

Changes in F1 regulations, though, appear to have proved decisive.

This is a struggle — the battle between farmers bent on survival and a landscape seemingly fixed on their elimination — in which tools have proved decisive.

He may have cost the Republicans as much as four percentage points, which could have proved decisive in a closer race.

To date, the Tories have relied on the belief that Miliband's lack of popularity and public doubts over his suitability for the premiership would have proved decisive.

Director James Comey's intervention ten days before the election — telling Congress that his agency was taking another look at e-mails related to Clinton's private server — may have proved decisive.

Of course, Republicans would still be arguing that administration policies had delayed, rather than accelerated, labour market recovery.The final large assumption, then, is that an improvement in unemployment of about a percentage point would have proved decisive in the midterm elections.

One lawyer said he failed to provide evidence one way or the other about Mr. Mubarak's role in the crackdown on protesters, saying that he was not present in meetings that could have proven decisive to the prosecutors' case.

Although the APCs had been used to support the infantry during the operation, they lacked the firepower and armour to be an effective substitute for tanks which would likely have found the terrain and vegetation no obstacle and may have proven decisive.

Ramón Coronel's handball had proved decisive.

Meanwhile, divisions in the international community made it unlikely that international military intervention, which had proved decisive in Libya, would be possible in Syria.

He is close to Ricardo Teixeira, the former president of the Brazilian FA, and Rosell's contacts in Brazil had proved decisive.