decisive moment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdecisiveandmoment
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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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moment
noun
uk/ˈməʊ.mənt/us/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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(Definition ofdecisiveandmomentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was usually regarded as adecisivemomentwhen a patient's emotional problems were reconfigured and a return to emotional health begun.
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In the history of this treatment, the mostdecisivemomentappears in the seventeenth century with the birth of modern science.
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Ultimately, the early summer of 1930 proved to be the mostdecisivemomentin the evolution of consular police activism.
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And at thedecisivemomentfortune did not favour the conspirators.
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It was adecisivemoment.
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Urabi was presented as a weak and impulsive military leader who deserted the nationalist movement at adecisivemoment.
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So he struck the decisive blow at the decisive point at thedecisivemoment.
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That was thedecisivemomentin the recovery of the country.
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Thedecisivemomentwas when the bases were put here two or three years before.
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It comes at what is very nearly thedecisivemomenton this issue.
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But a crisis, by definition, is also a crucial ordecisivemomentor a turning-point.
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We cannot stifle these countries at such adecisivemomentas this.
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That seems to me to have been a particularlydecisivemoment.
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Strategy is the art of concentrating decisive force at the decisive point at thedecisivemoment.
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The war was adecisivemomentin the history of the world.
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There are yet two more reasons why your presidency comes at adecisivemoment.
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It would be doing the decisive thing at thedecisivemoment.
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It is adecisivemomentin the history of that system which is so enormously important to us in this country.
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This is an important moment but perhaps thedecisivemomentwill come soon, when we have to put forward proposals for the future.
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My farmers see this as adecisivemoment—not in the sense that it is noticeably worse than in years past.
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