decisive role

collocation in English

meaningsofdecisiveandrole

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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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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/
us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofdecisiveandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The location where the flux limit plays itsdecisiveroleis the high density jump behind the laser deposition region.
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To begin with, one can surmise that the volume of demand played adecisiverole.
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Here, the laser intensity, pulse length, and target thickness are playing adecisiverole.
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This report came to play adecisiverolefor the new government in its need to formulate and legitimize a new course of development policy.
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As borne out by these examples, the metaphors are in fact means of acquiring knowledge, where similarity plays adecisiverole.
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Thedecisiveroleinstead falls to the "effects of politics" (p. 9).
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Theoretically, the change in any neurotransmitter component could play adecisiverolein the micturition problems of older people.
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This kind of noise may play adecisiverolein the reduction of the effective dimension when delay-differential equations are used to describe the networks.
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Thedecisiveroleof the laser-beam self-focusing, participating in the production of ions with the highest charge states, was proved.
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Most politicians and pundits take it for granted that the state of the economy plays adecisiverolein electoral outcomes.
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Her suitability for thisdecisiverolehas been carefully prepared in the earlier scenes of the opera.
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In my view, controversies play adecisiverolein such processes.
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In these three country cases, the established minor party often played adecisiverolein determining the composition of the government.
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Especially, items one and four seemed to have played adecisiverolein the decision-making process.
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In other words, those secondary desires play thedecisiveroleof ensuring that one really wants to do what one ought to do.
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In turn, the images of knowledge play adecisiverolein directing research and further determining the development of the body of knowledge.
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In the latter type of languages, the verb's internal/external arguments do not play adecisiverolein the syntax of grammatical aspect.
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On the other hand the mass exodus of the summer of 1989 did not play adecisiverolein this process.
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The point is perhaps worth making here that theology has not only had but retains adecisiverolein the formation of the central narrative.
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