decisive

Modifying Another Word

• potentially: Sediment supply, relative to fluvial transport capacity, has therefore a potentially decisive effect on the erosive power of any bedrock river.
• perhaps: You will recall how great, perhaps decisive, was the part played by the German Air Force against the French Army in May.
• necessarily: Even where benefits are paid to the employer, this fact is not necessarily decisive.
• so: The call is so decisive that they immediately left their fishing nets and followed Jesus.
• really: The deep split over the war on Iraq shattered any illusions in a common position on really decisive foreign issues.
• even: You will also learn how it can be very useful, even decisive, in chart rectification.

Preposition: for

development: The United Nations Development Program focuses increasingly on questions of governance, which we all now realize are decisive for development.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

do: When they did, Colonel Leavenworth was warned to do something decisive or he would lose Indian respect forever.

Modifies a noun

• victory: In all likelihood, America will score a decisive military victory.
• battle: During the decisive Battle of Endor, the Falcon flew point for the Alliance Fleet.
• blow: A decisive finishing blow, act, or event.
• moment: Today shall be a decisive moment in which time zone I've landed in.
• action: Lenin demanded decisive action to seize the supreme power.
• factor: The decisive factor was, first of all, to get his troops to Spain.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: I had a new grip on me racket which proved quite decisive.
• become: Both thinkers would spawn defenders and schools of thought that would become decisive in establishing modernism.
• look: It looks decisive, and it is certainly administratively convenient.
• regard: Until they are able to do so the foregoing arguments must be regarded as decisive.
• take: I regard both of those matters taken together as decisive.
• consider: In a situation where every race would be considered decisive by both big parties, they are not.