decisiveness

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Voters were enthused by what they saw as her decisiveness and frank style of communication, as well as her optimism and outsider status as a woman in a male-dominated political world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

Is there a parallel between his unruffled personality and his decisiveness on track?

From BBC • May 22, 2025

The evaluator's rubric has six criteria to consider when determining the scores of the interview: intimacy, social desirability, general job abilities, decisiveness, cooperativeness and overall hireability.

From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2024

The Met players and their music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a conductor who shapes scores with strength and decisiveness, are experts at underlining a specific emotional intention in grand-opera style.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik