Sentence examples for the decisive steps from inspiring English sources

It was in the provinces, however, that the republican coinage took the decisive steps toward its finally imperial character.

At critical moments that night, members of the crew hesitated and did not take the decisive steps needed.

We recognise and appreciate the show of solidarity from the British public and the decisive steps taken by the British government and local authorities to resolve the problem.

But it was not Sanofi-Synthélabo, the French pharmaceutical rival for Aventis, who took the decisive steps -- it was the French government.

-"Our ability to pay down this debt at this time is directly linked to the decisive steps we have taken to improve our financial flexibility over the past two years," they wrote.

TOKYO — Japan said Friday that it would seek to phase out nuclear power by 2040 — a historic shift for a country that has long staked its future on such energy, but one that falls far short of the decisive steps the government had promised in the wake of the world's second-largest nuclear plant disaster last year.

This can be regarded as the decisive step before making your final decision.

After 49 Qd4, Karpov took the decisive step and gave up.

Berdi Kerbabayev was among the most prominent Turkmen writers of the 20th century; he became best known for his novel Aygïtlï ädim (1940; "The Decisive Step").

In 1927 Orwell, on leave to England, decided not to return to Burma, and on January 1 , 1928 he took the decisive step of resigning from the imperial police.

But Poincaré never took the decisive step of reformulating traditional concepts of space and time into space-time, which was Einstein's most profound achievement.