decisive break
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdecisiveandbreak
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decisive
adjective
uk/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/us/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/
able to make decisions quickly and confidently, or showing ...
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break
noun
uk/breɪk/us/breɪk/
an ...
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This accessibility entailed adecisivebreakwith the entrenched elitist and esoteric tradition of the occultists and hermeticists.
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There were, of course, continuities: no clear, sharp,decisivebreakcan be discerned, associated with any particular incident or event.
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Other questions relate to how far ideas on social policy marked adecisivebreakwith the previous decade, and whether continuities may have been as striking as any changes.
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It is building on the past but adecisivebreakand a step forward.
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With or without religious convictions, many people are grateful for adecisivebreakeach week in the routine of life.
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This approach is adecisivebreakwith the past.
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Today we are making adecisivebreakwith that tradition.
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It refers to the words "adecisivebreakwith the past".
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This is adecisivebreakwith the past.
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It makes adecisivebreakwith the dreary rigmarole of new and ever more complex taxes offset by new and ever more complex reliefs.
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These innovations marked adecisivebreakwith the past and a necessary step toward central bank independence.
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It is designed to constrain government, and represents adecisivebreakfrom the past.
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Both composers made adecisivebreakwith the style of the first generation of harpsichordists, who confined their compositions to the relatively fixed mould of the classical suite.
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The problem with this lighter version of anti-genre is that all artistic movements by definition represent adecisivebreakwith the traditions that came before them.
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He was an "animateur" who could start decisive breaks; he destroyed the image of sprinters who just sit on wheels.
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