adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a decisive victory
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The battle was a decisive victory for the US.
decisive action (= that has a big effect on the way something develops )
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We are urging the international community to take decisive action on debt relief.
the decisive/determining factor (= the one that has the biggest effect )
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The support of middle-income voters was the decisive factor in the election.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Important though this visit was as a political signpost, a far more decisive meeting was to follow.
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Public religion was not just talk; it issued in action more decisive than the kind George Washington supported.
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It will be more messy, more dangerous, but perhaps more decisive .
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Much stronger pressures and probably more decisive action was necessary in these circumstances.
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The evidence from shrines, temples and churches erected to meet the needs of literate societies is even more decisive .
most
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Of the smaller parties, the Workers' Party was the most decisive in favouring the change.
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Scottsdale voters took the most decisive action last May, approving a sales-tax increase to buy land in the McDowell Mountains.
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Then we enter the famous city of Gettysburg, site of the last and most decisive battle of the Civil War.
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It is doubtless the affective aspect of the human soul that is most decisive in our behavioural choices.
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She would then telephone Miranda, the most decisive of the three sisters.
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action
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No one else could have done this as well as Lanfranc with his orderly mind and power of decisive action .
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Conversely, there might be too little capacity for decisive action in a cabinet system when there is no stable majority.
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David Oakenson says that if guilt is proved then decisive action should be taken.
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Suddenly Newland Archer felt himself impelled to decisive action .
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When will the Government take decisive action and end the hell of a mess in that section of industry?
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By streamlining operations, they took the proper, decisive action .
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Much stronger pressures and probably more decisive action was necessary in these circumstances.
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Scottsdale voters took the most decisive action last May, approving a sales-tax increase to buy land in the McDowell Mountains.
battle
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Then we enter the famous city of Gettysburg, site of the last and most decisive battle of the Civil War.
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The invasion would then be easy, but the hope of luring the enemy fleet into decisive battle would be gone.
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A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle .
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Moves towards them prove that reform is not a lost cause, but that it needs champions and decisive battles .
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The aim which obsessed military thinking was the winning of a decisive battle soon after the outbreak of war.
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With the decisive battle only a few days off, it was engaged in gathering all available intelligence regarding enemy activity.
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Unlike old-fashioned narrative history, art has no decisive battles , no international treaties, and no changes of government.
battleground
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First, Engler comes from a decisive battleground of the 1996 election, the industrial Midwest.
blow
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This was especially true as regards the period of contraction or depression, and the Great Depression dealt a decisive blow .
break
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President Bill Clinton will represent a decisive break from 12 years of Republican Party rule.
effect
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Increasingly officials helped to make policy, sometimes with decisive effect .
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Volley guns need never fire a shot to have a decisive effect on the game.
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And last night he eluded his two markers to decisive effect although they shadowed him well for much of the match.
factor
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Now it might be argued that ontologically the decisive factor is that on opening his eyes he found again two distinct individuals.
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Yet extending family is such a decisive factor in the success of working parents, they really can not afford their reluctance.
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The decisive factor in many of these wrangles may be the judiciary.
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In the future, aircraft will be the decisive factor .
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However well you try to equip yourself, qualifications are unlikely to be the decisive factor .
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Ultimately, though, human beings are the decisive factor .
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The death of his wife in 1849 was probably a decisive factor in Hill's decision to quit.
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Gradually it emerged that his concern for his country was the decisive factor in his changed attitude.
goal
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Miller's third and decisive goal came from a McAlonen free-kick which found Simon White in position to score.
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The decisive goal in the dying seconds of the first half was a beauty.
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Celtic deserved their win, achieved through decisive goals from the Nicholas-Creaney partnership.
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The decisive goal came after 57 minutes when Holdsworth's centre was missed by Mimms who was under pressure from Nogan.
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He supplied the cross for Scott's decisive goal .
influence
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The method used can have a decisive influence on the ranking of the proposals.
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In numerous races, evangelical voters were of decisive influence in deciding the outcome.
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Consequently, developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations.
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Moreover, it was an event that had a decisive influence on the way macro-policy evolved.
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Control is widely defined as the ability to exercise a decisive influence over a company by any means.
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Thus, they have a decisive influence over the results in most of the elections.
moment
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Would-be lovers belch or hiccup at decisive moments .
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It was a decisive moment in his career.
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For St Francis there were a number of decisive moments , such as when he saw the leper.
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But group mind seems to be a liability in the decisive moments of touchdown, where there is no room for averages.
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And so the experienced surgeon is able to apply his real concentration at the decisive moment .
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What he is doing is laying the groundwork for the decisive moment and preparing his getaway.
part
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We have played a decisive part in the development of the Community over the past decade.
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On the whole, though, the cases in which covert taping of conversations plays a decisive part are few.
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This onslaught won financial concessions but not the decisive part in the colonization of New Zealand which the company sought.
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Lugh was going to be playing a decisive part in this victory.
result
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If anything, Karpov had the better of these three draws, but at least decisive results were somehow once again in the air.
role
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The Women's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote.
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These organizations played a decisive role in forging patient links with the outside world.
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The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth.
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Interest rate levels also can play a decisive role in determining currency values.
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Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role .
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He could and did play a decisive role .
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So accumulation played the decisive role in maintaining favourable demand conditions.
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In the other cases it played a facilitating rather than a decisive role .
shift
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Taken together, these changes represented a decisive shift in favour of the secular power.
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And such changes mark a decisive shift away from local democracy.
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It marks a decisive shift on the part of the Sri Lankan government to sacrifice self-reliance for the possibility of increased foreign revenues.
step
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People who aren't impulsive think through the consequences of their actions before taking decisive steps .
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The next decisive step was the discovery of the chemical nature of genes.
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The move would be a decisive step towards the separation of the 999 service from routine ambulance work.
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Constitutional meddling has been rejected, but his first move should be a decisive step towards fair votes.
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So you must expect one last showdown that's followed by a decisive step in a new direction.
victory
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Hugo Chavez won a decisive victory over Francisco Arias in his bid for a six-year term as Venzuela's president.
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Nixon, meanwhile, spoke and acted as if the United States had won a decisive victory under his command.
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As it happens the outcome, in my view, is a decisive victory for the individual organism.
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William of Orange is seen to have worked the decisive victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
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He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards.
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At last the moment to silence all the doubters with a decisive victory arrived.
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He wanted forces capable of quick, decisive victories against diplomatically isolated opponents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a decisive election victory
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the decisive battle of the war
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This country needs strong, decisive leadership.
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We are still waiting for Jim to make up his mind. I wish he would be more decisive .
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When asked about the possibility, his answer was a decisive "no."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gradually it emerged that his concern for his country was the decisive factor in his changed attitude.
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However well you try to equip yourself, qualifications are unlikely to be the decisive factor.
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I thought I might win something decisive with her.
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In any race during the previous four years that would have been decisive .
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In connection with the depiction of home makers as competent and decisive , the reader is offered two important insights here.
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In numerous races, evangelical voters were of decisive influence in deciding the outcome.
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It found that had Costa Rica been consulted, its opinion would have been decisive , precisely the situation envisaged in 1858.
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The door was opened by the gipsy girl who with a decisive movement turned the handle and pulled it wide.