The first two had been won decisively, the last also.

The political press said that to go forward I had to win decisively there, with at least 40 percent of the vote.

"I felt we won quite decisively, even though the score at the end doesn't show that."

This meant the Axis had to win decisively or not at all.

He ran for re-election eight weeks later, as a Republican, and won decisively.

And Russell believed that the war had been decisively won by science.

The losers won decisively, by an average of 10 percentage points a year.

Few literary debates in history have been so decisively won.

"We won decisively, even though management went to great lengths to block this."

A short battle followed, with the Patriot forces winning decisively.