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Meanings of decisive in English
Forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis.
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Usage of decisive in English
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Others warn that without decisive action, the corruption cases may simply increase.
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He said climate change required a decisive response from the world community.
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This, he said, is a decisive moment in the change of government.
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Public health measures were decisive in controlling the SARS epidemic in 2003.
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Yet it needed a controversial penalty to provide the game's decisive moment.
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Your solutions to problems tend to be decisive and to happen quickly.
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The effects of this decisive debate were not long in showing themselves.
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Leadership, a plan, and decisive action is what is needed, it said.
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Analysts said neither candidate emerged from the debate with a decisive advantage.
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Dutchman Tom Dumoulin stayed second ahead of Saturday's decisive individual time trial.
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However, a decisive leap forward has been mooted by 26 African nations.
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Anthony Kennedy is considered the court's decisive, swing vote on abortion cases.
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On past form Mourinho will give Alli a short, decisive trial period.
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All four teams remain in contention, and points difference could prove decisive.
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Biman Prasad says the Prime Minister must take decisive and swift action.
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They are hurting and nobody has taken decisive action to help them.
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Decisive across language varieties
Ireland
Common
South Africa
Common
United Kingdom
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