The pendulum was about to swing decisively back towards the Conservatives, whose negotiating team arrived at the Cabinet Office at 2pm for another round of talks with their tense-looking Lib Dem counterparts.

It was at this time that the battle swung decisively to the British, as their superior gunnery took effect.

And once they came in close enough and slow enough for the defenses to engage them, the advantage would swing decisively to Honor's side, leaving them no option but to surrender or die.

In the late 1980's, for the first time, public and medical opinion began to swing decisively in the other direction.

This attitude cut right across the grain of popular opinion of the time, which swung decisively behind the restoration of the Stuart monarchy that took place later in the year.

The opposing fleet was able to deliver troops and supplies to the Spanish army in Italy, decisively swinging the war there in their favour.

So in the early 1990's, the design pendulum swung decisively back to Tokyo, as Nissan focused on Japanese customers.

The seeds of the maverick scholar were planted the year before he left Cuba, a searing time when the revolution was swinging decisively toward Soviet-style communism.

Following the German defeats at Stalingrad and El Alamein, the war began to swing decisively the Allies' way.

Though "voters start with a slight inclination to support the law," it continued, they swing decisively against it when they are told that Medicare beneficiaries will face high out-of-pocket costs, high drug prices and gaps in coverage.