Some people argue that a short and decisive battle for supremacy would in the end cause less suffering than the protracted one now raging under America's nose.

有些人认为，与其让这些冲突天天在美军鼻子底下持续上演，不如干脆速战速决，一场大决战后彼此都少受苦。

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Dodd endorsed Obama at a news conference in Cleveland where Obama is campaigning one week before crucial primaries in Ohio and Texas that could be decisive in the battle for the party nomination.

多德在克利夫兰的一个新闻发布会上宣布支持奥巴马·奥巴马正在克利夫兰进行竞选活动，一周以后，俄亥俄州和德克萨斯州将举行重要的初选，这些初选对两党参选人的竞争可能具有决定性意义。

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It's a decisive battle, let's work together to finish our enemy once and for all.

这是决定性的一战，让我们一起努力，一劳永逸消灭我们的敌人！

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There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference.

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The first skirmishes in America's war of independence were at Concord and Lexington in 1775 and the decisive battle was fought at Yorktown in 1781, six years later (though the articles of peace were not signed until 1783).

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Alternatively, al-Assad could hang on to power for months yet, if regime forces and the Free Syrian Army continue to battle without a decisive victory on either side and the international community declines to step in.

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