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    decisively
    [ adv ]
    1. with firmness

    2. <adv.all>
      `I will come along,' she said decisively
    3. with finality; conclusively

    4. <adv.all>
      the voted settled the argument decisively
    5. in an indisputable degree

    6. <adv.all>
      the Fisher Act of 1918 decisively raised their status and pay


    Decisive \De*ci*sive\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]cisif. See {Decision}.]
    1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or
    controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy;
    final; conclusive. ``A decisive, irrevocable doom.''
    --Bates. ``Decisive campaign.'' --Macaulay. ``Decisive
    proof.'' --Hallam.

    2. Marked by promptness and decision.

    A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive
    character. --J. Foster.

    Syn: Decided; positive; conclusive. See {Decided}. --
    {De*ci"sive*ly}, adv. -- {De*ci"sive*ness}, n.

    1. Although the joint commission is the first to learn of a hospital's sloppiness, it is usually the last to act decisively.
    2. The time had come for the international community to unite and act quickly and decisively, the president emphasised.
    3. But in Congress two years later, a sweeping revision of the immigration law was decisively approved.
    4. In winning Tuesday's New York primary decisively, Dukakis may have knocked Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr. out of the race.
    5. "It would be undemocratic and contradictory that Congress should not respond promptly and decisively to the request of 3.6 million citizens from Puerto Rico to be consulted as to the choice of their ultimate political status," the letter read.
    6. One motivation for acting decisively was Bush's scheduled visit.
    7. That will probably take either another rise in short-term rates - already priced into bond yields - or evidence that the US economy has slowed decisively from the heady growth rate achieved in the final quarter of last year.
    8. It's hard to say with certainty, because the highway system in this country is so recent that natural selection has not yet had time to operate and decisively favor animals shrewd enough to prefer offroad habitats.
    9. But in his drive to emerge as the dominant PC retailer, Mr. Norman failed to respond decisively to a crucial shift in the industry.
    10. But administration officials also acknowledged that the continuing unrest in the markets is raising pressure on negotiators to go further, to show the government's ability to act decisively.
    11. There are many companies which have been decisively weakened by successive leveraged takeovers and by the need to fight off unwelcome bids.
    12. In contrast to his normal caution, Bush decisively imposed U.S. economic sanctions and an oil boycott against Iraq and then rallied other world leaders to do the same.
    13. Gephardt's loss was Gore's gain, as the Tennessee senator decisively won their battle for the mantle of moderate alternative to Dukakis and Jesse Jackson.
    14. Many analysts say market prices could weaken significantly if OPEC fails to show at this weekend's meeting that it plans to act decisively to contain overproduction.
    15. A poll published by the national daily Mainichi indicated the Liberal Democrats would lose the Tokyo election decisively.
    16. And for them to consider that an endorsement of any of their policies is to misconstrue the facts." John Youngblood, Kollmorgen's chairman and chief executive, said that the company is pleased that shareholders "have spoken so clearly and decisively."
    17. All such attention to detail takes place before a space is cast; the final surface is left as it emerges. The creation of 'House' moved Whiteread's work, for this piece at least, decisively into the public domain.
    18. The lesson of military history, indeed, is that if force must be used it should be used decisively.
    19. Clark was nominated for the post by President Bush at a time when the United States is bringing increasing pressure on the OAS to act decisively against Gen.
    20. For a while, the adoption of a Soviet style promised to enlarge decisively the emotional confines of American dance.
    21. In addition, the European Council might adopt weighted majority-voting procedures that would enable it to act more decisively.
    22. "Our efforts must be directed toward uniting our people in a way which could decisively strike a blow against apartheid and not our people," the statement said of South Africa's legal policy of race discrimination.
    23. Market indexes haven't moved decisively since falling more than 40% in October, and trading volume has ebbed to two-thirds of pre-crash levels.
    24. Weather forecasts called for mostly hot and dry weather in the Corn Belt this week, but Mao said traders also were looking for evidence of new export business and further drought damage to the crops before bidding prices up decisively.
    25. These institutions must be further and decisively developed - both internally and externally. As far as the European Community is concerned, the discussion over 'widening' or 'deepening' poses the wrong alternatives.
    26. But dealers said confidence had been drained by repeated failures to break decisively through the Dollars 400 barrier and questioned whether profit-taking at Dollars 395 could be repelled.
    27. What would turn the equity market decisively would be a sharp move up in bond yields.
    28. Still, the manner of his leaving was not something that instills confidence that Mr. Bush has decisively seized the reins.
    29. And he urged the Senate to move "quickly and decisively" to confirm Judge Anthony Kennedy as a Supreme Court justice and to confirm 27 nominees he has nominated to fill vacancies in the federal judiciary.
    30. In a related discussion published in the Communist Party daily Pravda, four scholars urged that the presidency be strengthened to protect the head of state from efforts to oust him and allow him to act more decisively.
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