Sentence examples for which was decisive from inspiring English sources

When he returned he produced a trump, which was decisive.

And the alarmed pronouncements about absinthe made from the beginning of the Belle Époque have been proved groundless, which was decisive, a Kübler spokesman said, in swaying United States government regulators.

Laura Garavini, chief representative on the parliamentary anti-mafia commission of Italy's biggest opposition group, the Democratic party, said the judgment offered confirmation of "the very dark shadows hanging over the construction of Silvio Berlusconi's vast business empire, which was decisive too for the subsequent birth of Forza Italia".

The principle of the conservation of mass provided for a criterion of when a chemical change was a decomposition into simpler substances, which was decisive in disposing of the phlogiston theory.

"This is one of the most historic fighting ships in the world, one which played a role in a battle which was decisive in the outcome of the First World War.

In September the battalion took part in the action against the Dervish Army at Hafir, which was decisive in ending the campaign.

But the problem is that there are too many variables involved to properly conduct a study: So many factors shape states' behavior that it's almost impossible to say which are decisive.

John Dickenson, a retired professor of geology at Liverpool University in England, frames the terroir controversy in the context of a broader debate over which is decisive, the environment or human effort.

The portrait of the cardinal dates from the 1540s, the decade when Jacopo also executed pioneering portraits of animals — represented here by the wonderful "Two Hunting Dogs Tied to a Tree Stump" from the Louvre — which were decisive in establishing this genre.

This, as overall patterns of hypometabolism (which are decisive for clinical diagnostics), remained largely unchanged.

This paper investigates the challenges which are decisive for a successful implementation of the FRP technology.