Sentence examples for substantial and decisive from inspiring English sources

The latest allied "ultimatum" specifies, in the American version (there are, inconveniently, other versions), "substantial and decisive" air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs if they try to overrun the town of Gorazde--the Gorazde--the Gorazde--theave in eastern Bosnia.

In either case, they could win by a razor-thin margin in a very close race, or they could win a substantial and decisive victory.

BBC Radio Leicester's Richard Rae: "When Leicestershire's under-powered attack reduced Derbyshire to 115-6 in mid-afternoon, the Foxes looked likely to start their second innings with a substantial and quite possibly decisive first-innings lead.

Nevertheless, substantial (8.2% of genes), strong (2.2%), very strong (1.1%) and decisive evidences (0.6%) of within-gene heterogeneous residual variances following Jeffreys' [ 23] scale were detected (Table 2; Figure 3) in this free-access data set.

The magnitude of this gap in phylogenetic support is substantial and, in our view, decisive.

She is smart and decisive when making operations and decisions.

However, the first meetings of Ministers of Education of the Community at the beginning of the 1970s, and the presentation of the Janne Report [19] for a Community policy in education, would lead to substantial changes, and to the need of establishing precise and decisive agreements.

Basically, a BF above 1 provides weak, above 3 substantial, above 10 decisive, and above 100 overwhelming evidence for model M i over M j.

He is thoughtful, wise and decisive.

Its response must be swift and decisive.

The result was familiar and decisive.