As the chief policeman for unfair state aid in the 27-country EU, he will also play a decisive role in the overhaul of troubled Spanish banks and the setting up of a new, powerful banking supervisor for the euro zone.

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The United States was proud to play a decisive role, especially in the early days, and then in a supporting capacity.

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The United States was proud to play a decisive role, especially in the early days, taking out Libyan air defenses and conducting precision strikes that stopped the regime in its tracks.

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"The American investing public can play a potentially decisive role in this War for the Free World, " Gaffney argued.

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In this connection, the United States and its allies can play a constructive and probably decisive role in insisting as a condition of economic and other assistance that the former Hungarian collaboration with the Soviet Union in hostile activities such as technology theft, espionage and support for extremist and terrorist groups or regimes comes to a complete end.

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