How to Use decisive action in a Sentence

decisive action

noun

• Presidents typically take their most decisive action in the first hundred days.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Tackling the climate emergency will require decisive action.
  — John Podesta, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• Slow, decisive action will keep you on the right track and ease your mind.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
• Faced with these challenges, the world’s largest card issuer took decisive action.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
• The war begun in Ukraine will spread absent prudent, decisive action.
  — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
• The Crossover The crossover marks a firm commitment to your goal by taking massive, decisive action.
  — Angela Quach, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• As for those now criticized for failure to take decisive action, consequences are few.
  — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
• But if anything, the swift, decisive action over the weekend by a diverse set of public and private stakeholders shows that Switzerland remains trustworthy as a place to bank.
  — David Bach, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2023
• But as criticism has grown louder in recent months, the Vatican has taken more decisive action.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• Australia is often held up as an example of how decisive action gun control can succeed in reducing deaths from firearms.
  — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• The Cato Institute, a libertarian legal and policy group, urged the court to take decisive action.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• The current budget challenges underscore the need for decisive action by the Board and superintendent.
  — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• Yet the authorities in Beijing seem reluctant to respond to calls, in China and abroad, for bold, decisive action to shore up the property market — and avoid contagion that would be felt across the global economy.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Here is the recipe for DeSantis’ political success: Step 1: Take decisive action.
  — Justin Sayfie, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• The crisis of legitimacy and trust in the media, exacerbated by the unchecked growth of bots on social media, calls for immediate and decisive action.
  — Guy Tytunovich, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• And last week his office took its most decisive action yet against the pope’s critics, launching a trial of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on charges of fomenting schism and denying the pope’s legitimacy.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• The court’s opinion addressed Trump’s argument that future presidents would be unable to take decisive action for fear of prosecution.
  — Claire Wofford, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• Only firm and decisive action can resolve the situation.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• Be proactive in identifying areas where change is necessary and take decisive action.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2024
• For Secret Service agents and officers as well as residential staff, the president’s failure to take decisive action sooner has been baffling and frustrating, people close to them say.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• European policymakers must take bold and decisive action now to boost the old continent’s business attractiveness and secure the best chance of a recovery.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 30 May 2024
• This moment demands decisive action at the federal level.
  — Juan Proaño, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2024
• This time around, the President and Vice President took decisive action through an economic agenda that has brought about the most equitable recovery in American history.
  — Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
• Mishra also claims that commercial interests are preventing the government from taking even more decisive action to cut pollution.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, Wright offers a performance of eloquent physicality — Mo obviously learned long ago when to keep her head down and remain inconspicuous, and when to back up her nervy talk with decisive action — and poignant longing.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 20 June 2023
• The urgency of this moment demands bold, decisive action to restore trust, advance our legislative priorities, and demonstrate good governance.
  — WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• Without decisive action to develop fair access plans to these drugs for people living in poorer countries, there is a real danger that a significant medical advance will end up increasing inequality in health care.
  — Jayasree K. Iyer, STAT, 7 June 2024
• Texas politicians have been pressuring the Biden administration to take more decisive action to make Mexico deliver, including instating sanctions.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 27 June 2024
• But after acknowledging responsibility and then taking decisive action on the battlefield, the military brass began to receive higher marks.
  — Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• Instead, the justices in the majority were more preoccupied by the possibility that its decision paralyzes future presidents from taking important and decisive action.
  — Cameron Joseph, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024