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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.
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.

decisive and winning
A decisive battle can cause the losing side to surrender, while a Pyrrhic Victory such as the Battle of Asculum can cause the winning side to reconsider its long-term goals.
Zetterberg scored the winning goal in the decisive Game 6, and was also named the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs.
While many Goths were subdued and joined the ranks of the Huns, a group of Goths led by Fritigern fled across the Danube and revolted against the Roman Empire, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Adrianople.
At this time, Wever conducted war games ( simulated against the French ) in a bid to establish his theory of a strategic bombing force that would, he thought, prove decisive by winning the war through the destruction of enemy industry, even though these exercises also included tactical strikes against enemy ground forces and communications.
In 200, after winning a decisive battle against Liu Biao at Sha County and putting down the rebellions of Xu Gong and others, Sun Ce was struck by an arrow and fatally wounded.
Instead of celebrating after winning the decisive sixth game at Nassau Coliseum, however, the Islanders were both irate and despondent.
In the decisive seventh game of that series, Slaughter, running with the pitch, made a famous " Mad Dash " for home from first base on Harry Walker's hit in the eighth inning, scoring the winning run after a delayed relay throw by the Red Sox ' Johnny Pesky.
In the first round, Indiana defeated the Atlantic Division champion Boston Celtics in seven games, winning Game 7 in Boston by the decisive margin of 97 – 70, just the third time the Celtics had dropped a Game 7 at home.
Despite not winning a decisive victory, the Parliamentarians forced the Royalists to withdraw to Oxford.
The Inspector General of Armoured Troops is responsible to me for the future development of armoured troops along lines that will make that arm of the Service into a decisive weapon for winning the war.
Darío Conca was named the Brazilian Championship's Player of Season, while Fred and Washington were decisive players in Fluminense's winning campaign.
In November Halsey's willingness to place at risk his command's two fast battleships in the confined waters around Guadalcanal for a night engagement paid off with the U. S. Navy winning the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the decisive naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign that doomed the Japanese garrison and wrested control from the Japanese.
French naval doctrine in 1914 was dominated by Mahan's theory of sea power and therefore geared toward winning decisive battles and gaining mastery of the seas.
After his overwhelming victories over the Persians and their allies in the Caucasus and Armenia, Heraclius, in 627, launched a winter offensive against the Persians in Mesopotamia winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Nineveh thus threatening the Persian capital city of Ctesiphon.
If White tries 30. Nd6 with the idea of 31. Qxe5 winning the knight, Black gets decisive pressure on the g-file after 30 ... Nf3 + 31. Kh1 Qg6.
The Italians ' decisive military victories over the Ottoman Empire greatly influenced the Balkan states towards the possibility of winning a war against the Ottomans.
BVB narrowly avoided being relegated again in 1986 by winning a third decisive play-off-game against Fortuna Köln after finishing the regular season in 16th place.
In October 2011, Houllier publicly blamed the failure on winger David Ginola's misplaced cross that allowed Bulgaria to launch a decisive counterattack and score their winning goal against France in the final minute of the final qualifying group match in Paris on 17 November, 1993.
The Padres, who rallied from a 2 – 0 deficit in the best-of-five series against the Cubs won the decisive Game 5 the next day ( thus, winning their first ever National League pennant ).
Æthelfrith carried the day, winning a decisive victory, although his brother Theodbald was killed.
On December 3, 2006, Safin defeated José Acasuso 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 6 – 3, 7 – 6 ( 7 – 5 ) in the 5th and decisive rubber of the 2006 Davis Cup, winning the Davis Cup for Russia.
Snow's Rede Lecture condemned the British educational system as having, since the Victorian period, over-rewarded the humanities ( especially Latin and Greek ) at the expense of scientific and engineering education, despite such achievements having been so decisive in winning the Second World War for the Allies.
Birmingham's industrial importance and contribution to the war effort may have been decisive in winning the war.
The alignment of 1860, with Republicans winning a series of close presidential elections, yielded abruptly in 1896 to an era of more decisive GOP control, in which most presidential elections were blowouts, and Democratic Congresses were infrequent and brief.

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