But the decisive event in this respect occurred, not on Wednesday, but almost two months ago when a section of his party refused to join him in bringing down the coalition government of Enrico Letta (which Berlusconi holds responsible for failing to block his conviction, or at least save him from the consequences).
Nevertheless, in some countries, particularly France, the book was the decisive event in exploding the lingering illusions of the left about the nature of the Soviet era.
By general consent the decisive event in the history of the provisional government was Kerensky's conflict with Kornilov, which broke into the open in August (September, New Style).
Murray Sayle argues, and persuasively, that it was not the bomb that precipitated Japan's surrender--that the decisive event was the Soviet Union's entry into the Pacific war, which raised the spectre of the division and partial Communization of the Japanese home islands.
The choice gave the episode a kind of hectic dramatic tension (could they get the script together in time to go on air?) but it also took "The Circus" curiously far from what may have been the decisive event of the election.
I suppose that "vigil" was the decisive event in my life.
The available sources are more confused about events in the afternoon, but it appears that the decisive event was Harold's death, about which differing stories are told.
The available sources are more confused about events in the afternoon, but it appears that the decisive event was the death of Harold, about which differing stories are told.
The participation of the Greek army at the Macedonian front was one of the decisive event of the war, earning Greece a seat at the Paris Peace Conference under Venizelos.
Likewise, in his assessment of the German perspective at Arnhem, Robert Kershaw concluded that "the battle on the Waal at Nijmegen proved to be the decisive event" and that Arnhem became a simple matter of containment after the British had retreated into the Oosterbeek perimeter.
