Sentence examples for proved decisive in a from inspiring English sources

But the B-52 never proved decisive in a cold war conflict.

Although both counted the same, Giambi's proved decisive in a game that left the Yankees smiling, a little sheepishly.

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

Granit Xhaka's sliced spot-kick, the only one of 10 missed, proved decisive in a game which the Swiss dominated the closing stages, inspired by Xherdan Shaqiri.

A first-half goal from the defender Christophe Berra proved decisive in a fine away performance that ended the hosts' five-match unbeaten run.

Norwich, revealed in the census figures published today as the least religious city in England, had a Christian to curse tonight – the Belgian striker Benteke, whose physical presence proved decisive in a thrilling game that remained in the balance until a late double by substitute Andreas Weimann and a salt-in-the-wound Benteke thunderbolt.

But it is unlikely to prove decisive in a tight national race.

Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Communist Party started laying the groundwork for their strategy in the Vietnamese countryside in the late 1920s.Counterinsurgency in Vietnam undoubtedly worked better than the search-and-destroy main-force tactics employed from 1965-68, butherere was no plausible way that three years of COIN could prove decisive in a 40-years' war.

The match then shifted momentum dramatically and it would ultimately prove decisive in a desperate service game from Murray.

The sophistication of her operation could prove decisive in an open-seat election that has already taken on a chaotic quality: organized labor, the most potent force left in New York politics, is badly splintered; the Democratic establishment has failed to coalesce around a single candidate; and voter turnout is expected to be unusually low.

But the competition created by the two going head-to-head for silverware created a clash between them last season, when Rodgers accused Mourinho of parking "two Chelsea buses" at Anfield in the  2-0 awin whichhich proved decisive in Liverpool not clinching a first title in 24 years.