Sentence examples for split decisively from inspiring English sources
The more striking thing, as he sees it, is the failure of the declining protest vote to split decisively in any direction.
Friends had the impression that Mr. Bush was more in love with Ms. Wolfman than she with him, and he seemed hurt when they decisively split up after graduation and she moved to Washington.
Yet there is a grimly ironic, symbolic symmetry: that the scion of L'Auto and the Tour de France, the great enterprises that had grown out of the Dreyfus affair – the controversy that decisively split all France on "the Jewish question" in the 1890s and 1900s – played a supporting role in the most notoriously anti-Jewish act of the wartime French authorities.
Recent whispers suggested that the pair had decisively split (allegedly owing to Zellweger's weight-gain for the role of Bridget Jones), though New Year's Eve found her backstage at a White Stripes concert in Chicago, proudly dressed in the requisite colour scheme.
Extra exposure for Plaid and the Greens (at least if Natalie Bennett improves her performance) could split the left-wing vote decisively in a number of seats that's why Cameron was so desperate for the Greens to appear in the main TV debate.
The government's backbone, the ATLU, split in 1967 and Bird was decisively voted out of office in 1971.
In 1912 Lenin, leading a very small minority, formed a distinct Bolshevik organization, decisively (although not formally) splitting the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Partyy.
An evenly split commission would compromise the power now exercised decisively by Ms. Berry, who has served on the commission since 1980.
Independents split their votes between President Bush and Kerry in 2004 but shifted decisively to the Democrats in 2006, providing critical support in the Democratic takeover of the House and the Senate.
It is Mr. Rodman's contention that presidents who fail to act decisively, hoping their advisers will reach consensus, or who try to split the difference between opposing points of view, tend to make weak, inconsistent or incoherent policy.
