Antonym: indecisive. Similar words: decision, derisive, precise, precisely, imprecise, decide, decide on, passive. Meaning: [dɪ'saɪsɪv] adj. 1. determining or having the power to determine an outcome 2. unmistakable 3. characterized by decision and firmness 4. forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis.
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91 Increasingly officials helped to make policy, sometimes with decisive effect.
92 Public religion was not just talk; it issued in action more decisive than the kind George Washington supported.
93 And he must know that if there is a war, his political future depends on it being short and decisive.
94 But group mind seems to be a liability in the decisive moments of touchdown, where there is no room for averages.
95 So here was the perfect opportunity for the profession as a whole to look decisive and effective.
96 In some cases, as in relations between the mainland and Zanzibar, this could be decisive.
97 In almost identical terms, constituency parties in the province and Britain have stepped up the pressure for a decisive Government move.
98 However committed the cooperative movement was to political involvement, there remained a powerful independence, and this proved decisive.
99 However well you try to equip yourself, qualifications are unlikely to be the decisive factor.
100 David Oakenson says that if guilt is proved then decisive action should be taken.
101 The word on the grapevine is that this survey will show a decisive Gore victory.
102 A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle.
103 Bruce Grobbelaar's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive.
104 In connection with the depiction of home makers as competent and decisive, the reader is offered two important insights here.
105 The move would be a decisive step towards the separation of the 999 service from routine ambulance work.
106 Some groups are very decisive, very productive, very creative and very satisfying for their members.
107 Butler gave what have often been considered decisive arguments against the doctrine of psychological hedonism.
108 In the other cases it played a facilitating rather than a decisive role.
109 In this case we have the simple result that the preferences of the median voter are decisive.
110 The invasion would then be easy, but the hope of luring the enemy fleet into decisive battle would be gone.
111 Perry, a successful businessman,(www.Sentencedict.com) brought a brisk and decisive managerial style to the Defense Department.
112 Alresford lifted the siege when Clarke kicked a penalty from fully 40 metres, and they followed up with the decisive try.
113 The door was opened by the gipsy girl who with a decisive movement turned the handle and pulled it wide.
114 The decisive factor in many of these wrangles may be the judiciary.
115 It was decisive, in that it was marked by a shift in the character of the student body.
116 Richard Gay, their teenage stand-off, set up the decisive try as Hull came from 7-4 behind in the closing minutes.
117 When will the Government take decisive action and end the hell of a mess in that section of industry?
118 Hugo Chavez won a decisive victory over Francisco Arias in his bid for a six-year term as Venzuela's president.
119 Volley guns need never fire a shot to have a decisive effect on the game.
120 A sweet chestnut lay close by, its glossiness marred by decisive incisor scratch marks.
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