"Decisive" means being able to make decisions quickly and confidently, in order to solve a problem or move forward in a certain direction.
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A new level of
decisive action is required now to achieve real emissions reductions.
This edition focuses on health and healthcare as
decisive factors in determining the extent of harm countries will experience in the wake of a natural hazard.
A particularly
decisive role in this process is the interactive communication with surrounding tissue cells in the bone marrow.
In a world facing almost daily new evidence of global warming and its consequences, there is a need for a quick
decisive victory in the effort to cut carbon emissions and stabilize climate.
We have managed to maintain stability by
taking decisive action on the deficit.
Nevertheless, a good reputation doesn't always mean that a certain insurance company is the right one for you, especially when it comes to something
as decisive as term life insurance.
The quality is, in my opinion, a
more decisive factor than the talent after a certain point of development, and it is encouraging that he already has this in place.
Like photography itself, sports are associated
with decisive moments.
In today's workplace environment, sexual harassment compliance training should have clear,
decisive goals so that employees do not leave feeling confused and overwhelmed.
Self reliance and practical skills in taking
decisive steps in relation to work procedures, materials, and tools.
Pictures are extraordinarily important, but they are
not decisive of all questions.
Make decisive passes with precision and ease utilizing the touchscreen.
We know today that the single
most decisive factor in student achievement is excellent teaching.
The authority must have a power of
decisive influence over both strategic objectives and significant decisions of the company.
We've come out of a very difficult preparation period with
decisive games.
The film could have gone longer in my opinion but needed to give more meat to some of the film's more
decisive points.
6, these years constitute the period during which effective parent education can have its most
decisive impact.
Compared to the rubber tree, it has three
decisive advantages: Its vegetation period only lasts one year, not several years.
The first
decisive move out of that range could signal the stock's near - term direction and ability to push to new highs.
A new eight - speed automatic transmission, with faster and more
decisive shifts, should make the V - 6 and four - cylinder versions more enjoyable.
The only way this can be settled more or less permanently is
by decisive legislation, and that's a long term goal — we're talking 2020 here.
Historically,
decisive contributions to humanity's collective knowledge have often occurred as a result of borrowing and exchanges.
Results oriented
decisive leader with proven success in bringing products from conception to delivery employing best practices process development and problem solving.
Testing is not
decisive when making the diagnosis, but is undertaken to clarify the nature and extent of a particular problem.
Plan out your moves in a game about
decisive turn - based combat and working out strategies around uncertainty.
In doing that in a sort of
decisive way, our aim is to really make it feel like its own thing, like it's own section of the game.
But while the person of the prophet in itself is not of
decisive significance for the proposed mission, the master is the carrier of a metaphysical meaning.
The elaborate systematic theology of the schools was largely unaffected by the rise of modern science, whereas just this new movement was rapidly
becoming decisive for Western thinking generally.
This battle, over the coalition's approach to the economy, is entering a
potentially decisive phase.
Public figures and public documents widely asserted that this particular stream of religion was of
decisive importance in the history of liberty, and indispensable to its survival.
Why are all our results against tough opponents and
decisive matches always similar.
In a match between two opponents, it is common to
see decisive moments where one of the players seems to crack while the other gets a second wind.
He came to bear witness to the truth and to give us life in abundance, so he must use
decisive words which are relevant to each age.
A well qualified senior - level operations and business development executive, with a record of
providing decisive leadership in challenging situations and building corporate value in a constantly changing international marketplace.
More recently a new negotiations argument has gained prominence, and may will be the most
decisive argument for global carbon pricing.
Although it does handle position switching through the built - in sensors, there is one
decisive aspect of the design that ensures you'll keep it held sideways.
But for others the argument is terribly convincing and
even decisive.