Even though the formulation of the medium was the most important part, the bacterial growth was the most decisive stage. (lindau-nobel.org)
The critical and decisive stage comes when he either accepts the new judgment as benevolent or retreats from it. (religion-online.org)
The absence, however, of any explicit reference to politics in Jesus» recorded teaching, although not decisive, (It may be argued that any such references would tend to drop out during the process of transmission, which took place, in its final, decisive stages, in a non-Palestinian environment, far removed from Jesus» own political problems.) (religion-online.org)