These positive steps must be built upon through decisive action by national governments.
The scandal at Penn State also shows us that even when abuse is reported to civil authorities, the system cannot be relied upon for decisive action.
Next, we consider relative global fit of homoskedastic vs. heteroskedastic error WGP models to the actual data using PBF (Gelfand 1996), and use a threshold value of log 10 PBF HT,HO = 2 to conclude upon a decisive difference in fit between models (Kass and Raftery 1995).
This asymmetry becomes decisive upon application of a moderate substrate bias voltage, − 60 V, applied synchronously with HIPIMS pulses, during growth.
The pope may well have a decisive influence upon the 2016 race for the White House.
And, of course, the fact that the convictions of the politicians active at that time could be relied upon to play a decisive role in diplomatic relations.
In 1993 Arthur was appointed the parliamentary opposition leader, and, upon his party's decisive victory in the September 1994 elections, he became prime minister.
The intensity of his experience and the effect it has upon his personality are decisive factors determining the response of his initial followers and disciples.
A series of small skirmishes between detachments of the two armies culminated in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8 , 1815 in which Jackson's forces inflicted a decisive defeat upon the British army and forced it to withdraw.
He was the star correspondent for the Red Army, and his dispatches for the newspaper Red Star documented with thrilling immediacy the Nazi lightning attack upon the U.S.S.R., the decisive reversal at Stalingrad, and the Soviet's slow, bloody bulldozer-march to the German capital.
