"What we're going through in asking ourselves, 'Okay,we know what the goal is, is what we're going most likely to achieve that goal, is what a very decisive and intelligent commander-in-chief would do,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

A different way of putting it-- and none of this is going to come in with a sharp, decisive theory.

从另一个角度来看-,注意，我现在讲的内容,目前都没有一个明确的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So the narrative in the first part of Joshua, Joshua 2 to 12, describes the invading Israelites as an organized confederation of 12 tribes whose conquest is accomplished in a few decisive battles under the military leadership of Joshua.

因此《约书亚书》前一部分的叙述，从第2章到12章，描述了侵略者以色列作为有组织的联盟,由12个支派组成，他们在决定性战役中成功征服,在约书亚的军事率领之下。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So this is a timely opportunity to remind the world how agricultural biodiversity can improve productivity and nutrition,enhance livelihoods, respond to environmental challenges and deliver food security, Last July,the G8 summit in L'Aquila,Italy, issued a statement saying, There is an urgent need for decisive action to free humankind from hunger and poverty.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

So every generation of Israel is to view itself as standing at the sacred mountain to conclude a covenant with God, and that decisive moment has to be made ever-present. That's a process that's facilitated by the obligation to study, to study the laws, to recite them daily, to teach them to your children: these are instructions that are contained in Deuteronomy.

那么每一代以色列人都将自己看做站在圣山上,与上帝立约的人，于是那个决定性的时刻,被变为了恒久的场景这是通过学习，学习律法,而达成的过程，每天背诵它们，把它们交给你的孩子们：这是申命记中,包含的指示。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The North had not won a decisive victory in Virginia, the heart of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Lee hoped for a final, decisive blow that would bring the war to an end.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

But it should never be done in a manner which confirms Russia's unfounded claims to be the decisive force in this part of Europe."

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Kunda Dixit,editor of Nepali Times, says the three main parties are refusing to step aside because they want a decisive say in the writing of the new constitution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29