Sentence examples for possibility of decisive from inspiring English sources

This was part of what so annoyed the Cannes audience, along with that moral lethargy which seemed to overpower his characters, blocking even the possibility of decisive action.

Lacking genuine political competition, with no possibility of decisive electoral victories, public administration in newly pacified nations is often a mess.Lebanon is a prime example.

The genocide there is thus an unattended stepchild left to well-meaning groups and individuals who further sap the possibility of decisive action by directing attention to delicate measures of relief and equally fragile diplomacy.

Armed with polls that raise the possibility of decisive wins in House and Senate races, Congressional Republicans are trying to turn the situation to their advantage, warning voters about unchecked one-party government and urging them to split their tickets to deny Democrats unfettered control.

Yet, as in most other times when the world seems to be about to be plunged in darkness, there emerges a glimmer of hope, a hint of the emergence of a set of circumstances that hints at the possibility of decisive action.

Dozens of companies attended a May 2013 investment conference in Nairobi, lured by the possibility of a decisive defeat of Al Shabaab and the strengthening of the central government.

Democrats had hoped to unveil the text of the reconciliation bill on Wednesday afternoon, setting up the possibility of a decisive vote on Saturday.

Technology tantalized soldiers with the possibility of a decisive advantage that never materialized, while the passions of fully mobilized populations precluded compromise agreements that might have rescued the bleeding countries of Europe from their suffering.

After its failure, the possibility of a decisive breakthrough was gone and trench warfare resumed, with objectives being measured in hundreds of yards.

Of course all the protagonists expected victory and some may have believed in the possibility of a short, decisive war.

While Figure 6 illustrates the possibility that rapid contact tracing may be of decisive importance in some scenarios (parameter set choices), this is not always the case.