Historians consider this the decisive factor in convincing Alboin to undertake a migration, even though there are indications that before the war with the Gepids a decision was maturing to leave for Italy, a country thousands of Lombards had seen in the 550s when hired by the Byzantines to fight in the Gothic War.

Weapons and armour can be a decisive factor.

A decisive factor in winning general popularity was the German army's decision to place Christmas trees in its barracks and military hospitals during the 1870-1871 war.

Husserl makes no mention of Frege as a decisive factor in this change.

His connection with humanists was a decisive factor as several canons were sympathetic to Erasmian reform.

Prewar ' epistemic communities ,' such as the International Association for Labour Legislation ( IALL ), founded in 1900, and political networks, such as the Socialist Second International, were a decisive factor in the institutionalization of international labour politics.

Thus, they feel that " the decisive factor for the birth of typography ", the use of reusable moulds for casting type, might have been a more progressive process than was previously thought.

But the ensuing uproar in Parliament had a lasting impression on the electorate, and was a decisive factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by John Diefenbaker, in the 1957 election.

Besides the geographical argument, there was the fact that Simon Bolivar ’ s actions had been the decisive military factor in the independence of Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador, while his role in Panama ’ s independence was none.

Some systems have both segregated and street-running sections, but are usually then referred to as trams, because it is the equipment for street-running which tends to be the decisive factor.

Reed gained the support of young Theodore Roosevelt, whose influence as the newly appointed Civil Service Commissioner was the decisive factor.

The seizure of Constantinople would ultimately prove as decisive a factor in ending the Byzantine Empire as the loss of the Anatolian themes after Manzikert.

Though the Allies ' economic and population advantages were largely mitigated during the initial rapid blitzkrieg attacks of Germany and Japan, they became the decisive factor by 1942, after the United States and Soviet Union joined the Allies, as the war largely settled into one of attrition.

On 13 May Powell, said the task force was sent " to repossess the Falkland Islands, to restore British administration of the islands and to ensure that the decisive factor in the future of the islands should be the wishes of the inhabitants " but the Foreign Secretary ( Francis Pym ) desired an " interim agreement ": " So far as I understand that interim agreement, it is in breach, if not in contradiction, of each of the three objects with which the task force was dispatched to the South Atlantic.

The special status of his factory (" business essential to the war effort ") became the decisive factor for Schindler's efforts to support his Jewish workers.

Historian Christopher Andrew, argued that help from the KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39, 000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast.

The eyes were the spirit and the decisive factor.

This decisive shift in the balance of power in civil-military relations in France in 1958, and the threat of force was the main, immediate factor in the return of de Gaulle to power in France.

A series of medieval tunnels beneath the city, linked and greatly expanded by the New Zealand Tunnelling Company, became a decisive factor in the British forces holding the city.

The presence of an AED can be a particularly decisive factor in cardiac patient survival in these scenarios, as professional medical assistance may be hours away.

They rose to prominent positions under the Meiji Emperor partly because the Shimazu clan had been a decisive military and political factor in the Boshin war against the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Meiji Restoration.

The " most decisive historical factor accelerating, channelling and shaping the information technology paradigm, and inducing its associated social forms, was / is the process of capitalist restructuring undertaken since the 1980s, so that the new techno-economic system can be adequately characterized as informational capitalism " ( Castells 2000: 18 ).

This factor was decisive in the 2000 municipal elections, because of the significant number of Dutch citizens living in Voeren ( about 20 % of the total population ): Voerbelangen won a majority of 53 % of the votes and 8 out of 15 local council seats.

An added logistical problem resulted from the absence of General Helmuth von Moltke the Younger from the Western Front, which proved to be another crucial ( though not decisive ) factor in the failure of the Schlieffen Plan.

The wide use of sweeping reserve powers by Adolf Hitler, contained in Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, has often been cited as an important factor in the failure of the Weimar Republic and the decisive attainment of totalitarian power by Nazism in Germany in the 1930s.

While identifying himself within the anarchist tradition for most of his career, beginning in 1995, Bookchin became increasingly critical of anarchism, and in 1999 took a decisive stand against anarchist ideology.

Xun Yu dissuaded Cao Cao with a letter, highlighting several advantages that his army held over Yuan Shao's forces and urging him to stand fast ; the eventual result was a decisive victory for Cao Cao, which was crucial to his domination of northern China.

Babe Ruth's first home run as a Yankee, on May 1, 1920, was characterized by the New York Times reporter as a " sockdolager " ( i. e. a decisive blow ), and was described as traveling " over the right field grand stand into Manhattan Field ".

It was decisive, as they now required Norway to fail to win at home to Luxembourg to stand any realistic chance of qualifying.

Although the reversal was not decisive enough to alter the ultimate outcome of the conflict, it was convincing enough to persuade Major General Frederick Middleton to temporarily halt his advance on Batoche, where the Métis would later make their final stand.

The heroic stand of the 7th Armored Brigade and Yanush Ben-Gal's personal heroism and leadership are believed by many to be decisive factors in the Israeli victory over the Syrians.

One writer opined that it was Wyman's stand on the council to turn over Chavez Ravine to the baseball Dodgers, and the resulting expulsion of displaced residents, most of them Mexican-Americans, that was " a major — if not decisive — reason " for her loss.

A woman played the decisive role in the garrison's successful stand against the invaders.

In addition to his decisive influence on madrigal composers, he was the single largest influence on opera librettists up until the time of Metastasio in the 18th century.

Once again he established close ties to the court of Burgundy, and continued to compose music for them ; in addition he received many visitors, including Busnois, Ockeghem, Tinctoris, and Loyset Compère, all of whom were decisive in the development of the polyphonic style of the next generation.

A decisive moment in the development of STS was the mid-1980s addition of technology studies to the range of interests reflected in science studies programs.

Jackall argues that bureaucracy as implemented in the large American corporations he investigated " regularizes people's experiences of time and indeed routinizes their lives by engaging them on a daily basis in rational, socially approved, purposive action ; it brings them into daily proximity with and subordination to authority, creating in the process upward-looking stances that have decisive social and psychological consequences ; it places a premium on a functionally rational, pragmatic habit of mind that seeks specific goals ; and it creates subtle measures of prestige and an elaborate status hierarchy that, in addition to fostering an intense competition for status, also makes the rules, procedures, social contexts, and protocol of an organization paramount psychological and behavioral guides.

In addition, the earliest source to mention the decisive bora wind was Ambrose of Milan, but he states in his sermon on Psalm 36 that the wind blew before that battle, and demoralized Theodosius ' enemy before any fighting began.

In addition, Stevens points out that tribal membership alone was not the " decisive factor " when the Court upheld preferential treatment in Morton v. Mancari.

As a counterbalance to deficiencies in manpower and morale, the British had a considerable advantage in terms of equipment, possessing machine guns, armoured cars, motor transport, wireless communications and aircraft and it was the latter that would prove decisive.

The album was already highly personal ; now it represented ... a decisive break in ' the hit machine '.

Neither side achieves a decisive advantage in the air war, which is characterized by Clarence Potter as a " duel with machine guns at a pace and a half.

Battling an opposition that relied on guerrilla tactics and asymmetric warfare, the massive Soviet war machine proved incapable of achieving decisive victories and the entire campaign quickly devolved into a quagmire not unlike that which the U. S. faced a decade earlier in the Vietnam War.

A tiny, decisive puff of compressed air pops each defective bean out of the stream of sound beans the instant the machine detects an anomaly.

Tanks can be decisive in city fighting, with the ability to demolish walls and fire medium and heavy machine guns in several directions simultaneously.

Locating and repairing the machine, Ravage made his play during the final, decisive battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime's forces in early 2005, turning the machine on Megatron's armada and transporting them into a rift in the space-time continuum.

Armed with limited machine gun rounds, several freefall-bombs as well as 2 guided missiles, the strategies and skills of the player play a decisive role in the outcome of the battle.