How to Use decisive/deciding/determining factor in a Sentence

decisive/deciding/determining factor

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• Swing voters, tight margins and dancing on partisan lines exists even in California, and the determining factor might be how many decide to show up at the ballots.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• The speed at which the print head moves is a determining factor in how the final thread forms.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
• The decisive factor would be the speed and quantity of lethal aid.
  — Jakub Grygiel, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
• The high cost of living has played a decisive factor, too.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 13 June 2022
• Work should be the determining factor as to how long a client will be allowed to stay in shelter.
  — Robert Mascali, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Now, though, strategists on both sides tend to believe turning out the base is a more decisive factor, even in midterms.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 22 June 2021
• The pandemic may have proved a decisive factor in Biden’s win.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 7 Nov. 2020
• But another decisive factor in the choice of Cohen was his pledge to spend extra time in town on H+H projects, said Snead.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• This was a decisive factor in the Democrats’ victories.
  — Jake Walker, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
• And so money will not be the determining factor in this election.
  — Jessie Van Berkel, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• For most visitors, the chance to see pandas will not be the determining factor to come to San Diego, so the increase in total tourists will be small.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• The determining factor seemed to be whether the membrane was squished hard enough to force it into liquid-crystal form.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• Certainly with the depth this year the fate of the team isn’t on O’Keefe’s shoulders alone, but her performances will be a large determining factor.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Jan. 2022
• Thankfully, age is not the determining factor for whether or not someone can save in a Roth IRA.
  — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2022
• But there is still time for the infrastructure vote to become a decisive factor, Kahn said.
  — Danielle Duclos, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2021
• The divergence could be a decisive factor in whether the Democrat secures a second term next year.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• Crumbling morale on the Russian side played a role in Ukraine’s advances in the south but the decisive factor was weaponry, tactics and troop numbers, Colonel Kostenko said.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• But the move to publish the manifesto ended up being the decisive factor.
  — Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 15 June 2023
• But that muddles the issue with something that shouldn’t be any kind of determining factor.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• And many in the industry believe that platform payments could become a decisive factor in the short-form video wars.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• If are going to worry about the eye test being the decisive factor and not just break a tie, then just put the same teams in every year based on talent and recruiting.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 4 Dec. 2022
• The grade can be a consideration, but should not be the sole determining factor.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
• The decisive factor in European security will be the role played by the United States.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
• The debate over city and county achievements will only be one aspect of the campaign, and perhaps not the determining factor.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
• Weingarten said vaccines have been the decisive factor in her vision for a fall reopening.
  — Collin Binkley, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Russia’s advantage in heavy artillery so far has been the decisive factor in the Donbas campaign.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Age alone is not the determining factor of a person’s capacity to serve.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
• Tessum, who was not involved in the new report, says race really is the determining factor.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• Age and Maturity Your child’s age is a determining factor when selecting the right phone for them.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
• The votes aren’t the determining factor in whether a faculty member receives tenure and promotion; typically the provost makes the final recommendation to the university’s president and board of regents.
  — Bykatie Langin, science.org, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024