Sentence examples for the decisive line from inspiring English sources

Here, the decisive line was crossed from preservation to preservationism, the belief that the new buildings in the city should emulate the appearance of old ones.

New York City crossed the decisive line into aesthetics in 1916 when it adopted the country's first comprehensive zoning resolution, which contemplated wedding cake buildings, towers on a base and non-bonusable plazas.

But rather than a decisive line in the sand, the layoff notices were described by both sides as part of a process that seems to be unfolding in the traditional, protracted rhythms of labor negotiations.

But Beverly caps the discussion with a decisive line — declaring that, as soon as she graduates, she'll move to New York — that emphasizes the difference between their pursuits.

Herbert Muschamp attacks the Department of City Planning for "crossing a decisive line" and for setting up shop "in the sphere of aesthetic preference" ["Reaching for Power Over Streets and Sky," May 14].

Theresa May has drawn a decisive line under the David Cameron era with a sweeping reshuffle that saw several of his key ministers, including justice secretary, Michael Gove, sacked, and her own handpicked team rewarded with cabinet posts.

The former Test cricketer soon explains why he has taken such a decisive line.

With this program, city planning has crossed a decisive line.

With this 2003 piece, conceived, like most contemporary art, for museum display, we technically cross a decisive line from ethnology to art.

There is little faith here, it seems, in Europe's ability to draw a decisive line under its problems any time soon.

When he fled New York in 1963 for East Hampton, a small Long Island coastal town, his work began acquiring a curvier, more decisive line.