Sentences with phrase «decisive issue in a race»
Mr. Pataki resists the idea that abortion has become a decisive issue in the race, saying it is «absurd to make it a referendum on abortion.»
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In Hoboken, opposition to charter schools was a decisive issue in a race that swept into office a new slate of the school board candidates.
Not exact matches
When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.