Jones rejoined the fleet on 17 September and operated with it during the remainder of the navigation season attempting to draw Sir James Yeo's ships into a decisive contest.

The Leones then won three consecutive games, including the decisive contest before 15,000 fans in Ponce.

The decisive contest, played on October 3 at the Polo Grounds, was the first major sporting event televised coast-to-coast in the United States.

And lo, the forces of estrangement and disorder perpetually postponed a decisive contest.

The Zambians trail the group leader, Morocco, by 1 point, but unlike the Moroccans, the Zambians have another match to play before the decisive contest in Casablanca on Oct. 10.

The rules vary enormously from place to place, with some contests decisive, and others only one step in choosing a state's delegates to the nominating conventions.

After this short but decisive contest, the brigade moved farther to the left, and erected new works.

They have become giants warily circling each other in what could be the decisive contest of the 21st century.

The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase "tug of war" originally meant "the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy".

Defeat came at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), the decisive contest in which Philip II of Macedon, with his son Alexander, extinguished Theban hegemony.