| Decisive action and properly timed investment decisions: these are the prime prerequisites for profitable investment of assets. |
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| Decisive action and investment which Labour failed to deliver. |
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| Decisive action was taken to protect civilians. |
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| Decisive action on greening the economy is deferred yet again. |
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| Decisive action must be taken to stop our high streets turning from clone towns into ghost towns. |
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| This appropriate way involves a special moment of decisive action that involves resoluteness. |
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| Meanwhile, if the latest Labour Court initiative fails, the government will take pre-emptive and decisive action against the strikers. |
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| Rather, the police should take swift and decisive action against such offenses as harboring criminals, dealing drugs and swindling people. |
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| The firm and decisive action taken indicates how seriously the ECB and the club have treated the case. |
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| It is only through the decisive action that we will be able to move forward on a practical pathway to end this terrible conflict. |
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| The question has a sticky personal dimension, that of presidential character and the president's own gutty willingness to take decisive action. |
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| He said ANC councillors had maladministered public funds and decisive action against corrupt councillors was needed. |
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| This bill is about talkfests, about planning, and about bureaucracy, when we need leadership and decisive action. |
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| In fact, the probable assumption is that the seeds of hate will find their way to our own backyards if we do not take decisive action. |
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| Now that we are in government, we are taking decisive action to reduce the tax burden of all Canadians and pay down the national debt. |
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| There's no villain, no decisive action, and not much argument — just terrible lassitude and growing mental incapacity. |
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| It is a relationship that has had an opportunity to be mended. Yet we have not seen that decisive action by the government. |
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| Central banks are keen to take decisive action, but they are loth to sacrifice independence, or act in a way that would fuel any growing sense of financial panic. |
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| It is crystal clear that the species is under threat of extinction unless decisive action is taken. |
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| The fastest way for us to solve it will be to team up with other European countries and take coordinated, timely and decisive action. |
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| The Chinese proletariat needed-but did not have-a revolutionary leadership that could have led decisive action at a critical moment in history. |
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| This person must set the course, take decisive action and hold the tiller steady. |
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| He held it likely that Gwendolen's remorse aggravated her inward guilt, and that she gave the character of decisive action to what had been an inappreciably instantaneous glance of desire. |
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| The hallmark of this transition has been his decisive action installing an administration that is long on experience and generally high on conservatism. |
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| There is an urgent need for decisive action to free humankind from hunger and poverty. |
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| A number of colonial delegations to London urged the government to take more decisive action in the Ohio dispute. |
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| No decision had been reached on the choice between immediate decisive action and a siege. |
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| But when the Member States themselves fail to abide by it and the European Commission is unable to take decisive action, then everything starts to go pear-shaped. |
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| Positive and decisive action on regional integration, therefore, continues to be bogged down by the disconnect between institutional progress and the day-to-day reality of the people of West Africa. |
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| Canada is committed to working with all UN member states to promote a more unified and effective Security Council, one that can move past stalemate and take decisive action against threats to security wherever they may arise. |
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| Failure to take decisive action would be unconscionably irresponsible. |
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| This may have the appearance of decisive action and being tough on crime, but it is at the same time an obstacle to cooperation in the area of extradition. |
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| Listing this group is another example of how we will not dither on taking decisive action to protect Canadians and make our communities safe. Again, our government is showing leadership. |
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| Decisive Action training is geared toward what Grinde called an undefined threat. |
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| Through quick and decisive action, he utilized a flight line Halon fire bottle and extinguished the flames. |
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| Aid in a time of crisis: the financial crisis and the recent food and energy price crises, have had a devastating impact on poor countries, but there is still time for decisive action to be taken. |
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| Prompt and decisive action in these spheres would assist in preventing the emergence of conflicts, and where they do inevitably occur, stop them from degenerating into intense or generalized conflicts. |
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| Realizing this, we would like to see the next federal budget take decisive action in the important areas of healthcare, environmental protection, child and family poverty, and international development assistance. |
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| As long as we fail to act decisively where decisive action is required, it is hypocritical to say to nations clashing on the ground that they are responsible for the tragedies which befall them. |
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| Instead of taking decisive action of their own accord to promote the equality of both official languages, some public servants or leaders remain uncooperative. |
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| This is necessary to demonstrate that the board is taking decisive action, to deal with any misinformation that may be generated by a quick departure and to ensure that all of the employees' questions are answered. |
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| Many of the commitments made have yet to be translated into decisive action because it has proved difficult to operationalise the concept of PCD satisfactorily, both at EU and at member-state level. |
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| They are firm neither in principle nor in self-definition, curious and tolerant and heuristically malleable but lacking a clear identity that allows them to take decisive action at all. |
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| Dr Byrne said decisive action should be taken to reduce overmedicating in residential care. |
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| This has been attributed to a sound financial sector, decisive action taken to stimulate the economy, both monetarily and fiscally, a recovering US economy and strengthening global commodity markets. |
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| In the new context, the fiscal authorities should take decisive action to sustain the disinflationary process by reducing public spending, and the pace of structural reforms should be increased. |
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| This band-aid approach is not an optimal use of public funds, considering the rapidly growing costs of care and maintenance associated with delaying decisive action. |
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| On the home front, we are also taking decisive action to promote and protect the rights of Indigenous peoples based on our existing human rights obligations and commitments. |
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| Quick and decisive action is needed to stop this downward spiral. |
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| The province's poultry industry is congratulating all parties involved for the quick and decisive action to eliminate the virus, but says there must be a plan to work co-operatively on the aftermath. |
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| Only decisive action carried out with complete honesty and transparency will restore the respect and good will of the Irish people towards the Church to which we have consecrated our lives. |
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| I trust this is the beginning of decisive action to limit the power and arrogance of Saddam Hussein,'' Dole told his audience of about 3,200 Legionnaires. |
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| After encamping in this country for some days without taking any decisive action, the Roman consul on the spot decided to negotiate a settlement with the Insubres. |
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| Sometime late in the summer of 1297, King Edward's lieutenant in Scotland, the earl of Surrey, finally recognized the need to take decisive action against Moray and Wallace. |
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