The popular vote, which is symbolically and politically important but not decisive in the race, remains very close.
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He offers stability, and a degree of obstructive coherence in dealings with the outside world, but not the decisive leadership and real changes Russia sorely needs.
So I think the conventional wisdom by all sides - people who are sympathetic to the United States or not - is that the West, if it intervenes, it will intervene only to tilt the balance momentarily on the side of one group or the other but not in a decisive way.
Arsenal will want to win the game, and Chelsea also, but it's not decisive for the title.
But by themselves they are not decisive the way proponents predicted they would be.
Sunderland-bound Cristian Riveros headed wide, while Antolin Alcaraz and Santana both peeled away from their markers with far too much ease but could not quite make the decisive contact.
St Mirren introduced Stephen O'Donnell for Barron in the closing stages but the visitors could not find a decisive leveller.
He might not have been sacked exactly, but the decisive pressure came from Rome.
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But Tabbaci told CNN the affair would not be decisive in the elections.
But Mr Blair's loathing of him is not decisive evidence in Mr Livingstone's favour.
Mr Howard's support for a new preamble, but not a new head of state, could be decisive in a dual-purpose referendum.
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The transfer of ownership of state assets to private owners will not be a new and decisive act, but simply the correct settlement of bills long past due.
But in the end these are not the factors that will prove decisive.
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Such an offensive would not be pleasant to behold, but it would be successful and decisive.
Arguably, the unpopularity of the proposal was one reason the voters turned the LDP out, but it certainly was only one of many, and probably not a decisive one.
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As with the late 1940s, such an expression of resolve and magnanimity in our own time may prove to be the key not only to the securing of a Free Iraq, but a decisive factor in making the world safer for democracy in the decades to come.
And your decisive action is not only in the interest of France, but quite frankly the United States and everyone.
Still, he made the decisive choice not just to make peace with the former insurgents but to pay them not to fight us.
Phelan's skill, so evident in her years of styling for Vogue, is her ability to edit with decisive precision and to recognize not only what looks fashionable, but also what is missing from the mix.
But in one decisive step he's achieved that which his own father could not: entry into the exclusive nuclear club.
National security will not be the decisive factor in whether Obama wins a second term, but it will influence swing voters who traditionally value stability over the uncertainty of new leadership.
For in this global conflict, the decisive "battlefield" lies not on some remote desert plateau, but rather on the emotional, intellectual and spiritual planes that constitute Muslims' view of their own religion.
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Norman Lamb, health minister and Lib Dem MP for North Norfolk welcomed the review, saying decisive action was needed not only to build public confidence in the service but also to rebuild the trust of staff.
That may not be surprising, but the model also shows that the length of a slip road is decisive in determining what happens to traffic.
But the good news for Obama is that these independents are swing voters, and their preferences are not locked down yet, which makes the four upcoming debates critical for this narrow but decisive sliver of the electorate.
And it is pursuing negotiations on prohibiting information warfare and weapons in space that will not prevent either from being used against us, but may deny the U.S. possibly decisive warfighting capabilities against prospective adversaries.
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The new guidance would have a sounder footing if it had argued that no two regional crises were alike and that the requirement to conduct a full-scale decisive combined arms campaign in two locations at one time was not only unlikely, but failed to recognize strategic and operational advantages the U.S. might have in one or both of the two regions.
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In the end the decisive vote in New Orleans will come not from those householders who are determined to return but from those who are currently unsure whether to rebuild or move on.
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