How to Use decisive action in a Sentence

decisive action

noun

• 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 executives at Fox, however, took quick and decisive action to right the ship.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 29 Nov. 2024
• The war begun in Ukraine will spread absent prudent, decisive action.
  — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
• As leaders fail to take decisive action, the consequences of record-break warming take their toll on lives and property.
  — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
• The Crossover The crossover marks a firm commitment to your goal by taking massive, decisive action.
  — Angela Quach, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• As history shows, only decisive action can turn the tide.
  — Donald Bryson, National Review, 19 Oct. 2024
• These are issues that a management team must address swiftly and take decisive action on.
  — Martin Jarzebowski, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• Towards the middle of the month, Luna will reach its peak of fullness in the sign of Aries, energizing and inspiring us to act on our intuition and take decisive action.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
• This allows brands to analyze patterns and take decisive action on new insights in real time.
  — Dave Minifie, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• As for those now criticized for failure to take decisive action, consequences are few.
  — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
• As for those now criticized for failure to take decisive action, consequences are few.
  — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
• Cities need to take bold and decisive action to protect the environment, combat the effects of climate change and reduce pollution.
  — Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 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
• Now is the time for organizations to take decisive action and invest in GenAI solutions that will position them for future success.
  — Mike Whitmire, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Presidents typically take their most decisive action in the first hundred days.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 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 conundrum appears to have created a schism between some of Iran’s top leaders, who are proceeding with caution, and its biggest hard-liners, who are demanding swift and decisive action.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
• Republicans had pleaded with the president for months to take decisive action to curb a tide of migrants illegally entering the country.
  — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Her chef and housekeeper, Bruna (Alba Rohrwacher), is timid and worshipful but able to take quietly decisive action when necessary.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 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 Dutch authorities must take decisive action against terrorism now.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 8 Nov. 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
• Without decisive action, the South Caucasus will remain a flashpoint for instability and unresolved tensions.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025