Sentence examples for in a decisive act from inspiring English sources

She makes short work of it in a decisive act that brings everything this novel has to offer into focus - too briefly and too late.

The Prophet Abraham, in a decisive act of obedience to the will of God, prepared to sacrifice his son Ishmael.

"The European Union must act in a decisive manner that conforms to its values", the Elysée statement read.

"Now it is the moment to act in a decisive, coordinated and transparent manner, not to be engaging in any kind of blame game," Rosario said, adding that the commission expected EU leaders to discuss how to learn lessons from the scandal at the next meeting of the European council.

Not only that, once they were made aware of what was going on, they didn't act in a decisive and transparent manner--which made it worse.

His depiction, for example, of scabrous capitalists in "Ragtime" or his central figure's decisive act of political engagement in "Lives of the Poets" (he houses a family of illegal immigrants from El Salvador in his Greenwich Village apartment) led to his being characterized as a political novelist as often as he was called a historical novelist, although he rejected any such characterization.

The decisive act in Italian unification happened, implausibly, in Sicily.

The ramifications of such a decisive political act and its intrinsic roots in Protestantism are examined in a work of extraordinary richness and scope.

In this sense, the union of a man and a woman is a decisive act because constitute the entire society.

Their decisive act of courage inspired an entire nation to follow their lead and "do something".

This act marked the point at which a family changed class in a decisive way.