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Antonym: indecisiveSimilar words: decisionderisiveprecisepreciselyimprecisedecidedecide onpassiveMeaning: [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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121 This onslaught won financial concessions but not the decisive part in the colonization of New Zealand which the company sought.
122 If anything, Karpov had the better of these three draws, but at least decisive results were somehow once again in the air.
123 Celtic deserved their win, achieved through decisive goals from the Nicholas-Creaney partnership.
124 The moment I arrived the proprietress handed me a note with Bobbie's decisive writing on the envelope.
125 It found that had Costa Rica been consulted, its opinion would have been decisive, precisely the situation envisaged in 1858.
126 First, Engler comes from a decisive battleground of the 1996 election, the industrial Midwest.
127 But supporters were confident that decisive endorsement in the dioceses would create a new climate.
128 It is doubtless the affective aspect of the human soul that is most decisive in our behavioural choices.
129 So you must expect one last showdown that's followed by a decisive step in a new direction.
130 We took swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady's wishes.
131 Yet extending family is such a decisive factor in the success of working parents, they really can not afford their reluctance.
132 Brown was affable and sympathetic, but also firm and decisive in dealing with the problems presented to him.
133 The method used can have a decisive influence on the ranking of the proposals.
134 The aim which obsessed military thinking was the winning of a decisive battle soon after the outbreak of war.
135 With the decisive battle only a few days off, it was engaged in gathering all available intelligence regarding enemy activity.
136 Taken together, these changes represented a decisive shift in favour of the secular power.
137 Moreover, it was an event that had a decisive influence on the way macro-policy evolved.
138 Moves towards them prove that reform is not a lost cause, but that it needs champions and decisive battles.
139 In such cases cultural values acquire a new importance and can become decisive.
140 Both groups reinforced a mutual worldview that equated leadership with brilliant, tough-minded, and decisive strategic insight and decision making.
141 We have played a decisive part in the development of the Community over the past decade.
142 The whole point of the legal process is to get a decisive determination which will end the dispute in question.
143 No one else could have done this as well as Lanfranc with his orderly mind and power of decisive action.
144 With its establishment in the Seven Years War as an integral part of the war effort at sea their victory became decisive.
145 A flock was once thought to be a decisive sign of life,(www.Sentencedict.com) some noble formation only life could achieve.
146 On the whole, though, the cases in which covert taping of conversations plays a decisive part are few.
147 Hopefully, decisive action, not prevarication, will be forthcoming from both sides.
148 People who aren't impulsive think through the consequences of their actions before taking decisive steps.
149 For St Francis there were a number of decisive moments, such as when he saw the leper.
150 Much stronger pressures and probably more decisive action was necessary in these circumstances.
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