"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

"So if you get an audience of 10 million people there's a lot of 'don't knows' who watch you and what you say, what you do,in those 90 minutes could be quite decisive."

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Since the financial crisis began in the United States (in 2007), US officials are under pressure to assure their counterparts that they are taking decisive action to safeguard and repair the banking system.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

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