Forcing the departure of inflation hawk Henrique Meirelles is Ms Rousseff's most decisive move so far.
Ironically, the visitors' most decisive move then came after a concerted spell defending their own penalty area.
For one thing, former chief Mark Hurd just got his last, and perhaps most decisive, performance review for his work at HP.
That oversight defies both common sense and past military experience, and it disarms us in what may be the most decisive theater of this conflict: the battle of ideas.
Alan Greenspan, whose oracular endorsement was perhaps the single most decisive event in their passage, made it very clear that they were a temporary solution to a temporary surplus.
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Perceptions of firm American support for Israel may be the single most decisive factor in the calculations of her regional enemies concerning the consequences of attacks against the Jewish state.
"The most decisive factor in achieving a sustained increase in first-time buyer numbers is likely to be the performance of the wider economy - especially the labour market, " he said.
One of the most decisive pieces of evidence was reading the minutes for myself of a meeting that was held at a very high level between Google executives and Samsung executives.
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The impact of issues such as liquidity, confidence and credit on the wider economy will soon be seen and could be the "most decisive phase" for the industry, he will say.
His most decisive intervention in the economy came in 2008 when he blocked the sale of Alitalia to Air France, insisting on patriotic grounds that it should remain in Italian hands.
Hence - having ruled out sanctions altogether - the hint of a shift in the Russian foreign minister's recent comments that "if sanctions could help stop violence and maintain stability... we would be the most decisive supporters".
One of the most important and decisive differences between the two teams has been the platform provided by the opening batsmen.
And it's striking that the most media-observed figure in human history, the Princess of Wales, chose for her most daring and decisive media act a long, formal interview with Panorama, which 20 million people watched.
The prime minister said a single parliamentary inquiry into the "appalling" events would be the most "swift and decisive" course of action.
We struggle at times, but unlike most we always take decisive action.
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Last year, he made history with his decisive vote upholding most of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, preserving the signature initiative of a president who, as a senator, had voted to keep him off the high court.
In most cases hourly wages are not decisive in determining where a product is made.
By most accounts, Whitman is a decisive, if low-key, leader who has a talent for listening to her troops and actually getting things done.
The point is that the most arduous retreat is by no means a decisive defeat and can even sow the seeds of historic success.
Trials in which jury selection makes a decisive difference are rare, they believe: most cases are decided on the evidence.
Braugher plays Captain Marcus Chaplin, a paternal yet decisive leader of the USS Colorado, the most powerful nuclear submarine ever built.
Better safe than sorry, said most people, many of them praising the authorities for their decisive action.
Or, take the constant plight of Kennedy, who commentators tend to assume is the decisive vote in each of the court's most important cases.
Whether he was learning a new skill, taking decisive action in an emergency, or forging the most innovative and efficient steelmaking company in the world, the commitment to following the judgment of his reasoning mind was the only opportunity he needed.
Then, in the Ocean Park series, he made a decisive return to total abstraction, in the process creating the most original works of his career.
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The proposed new electoral law risks turning the clock back to the days when Italy was repeatedly paralysed by coalition negotiations and run for most of the time by an all-encompassing Christian Democratic party that was incapable of decisive action.
The campaigns concentrate on them because they are the voters most likely to change their minds and, with the candidates neck-and-neck, may prove decisive this year.
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So far, the most plausible potential challenger to Mr Yudhoyono in 2009 is his vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, who is as decisive and impetuous as his chief is indecisive and circumspect.
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