Cardiologist Marvin Konstam of Tufts Medical Center, the potential deciding vote on the panel, abstained.
Tate cast the deciding vote after the companies agreed to settle the commission's charges against them.
For the same reasons Germany (which likes to cast a deciding vote between free-market and statist arguments) wanted Britain in the room.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, widely believed to be the deciding vote in this case, asked whether habeas proceedings should wait until the D.
Besides, why fault Mr Balcerowicz for a poor economy, when he has often cast the deciding vote in favour of a rate cut?
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Justice Anthony Kennedy was the deciding vote in every one of the 5-to-4 cases, including the schools case, the McCain-Feingold case and the students' speech case.
Vice President Al Gore cast the deciding vote in the vote on the bill, which was debated after the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado.
Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate is expected to cast the final and deciding vote on the deal shortly, the officials said, after details are resolved on several outstanding enforcement issues.
The court's verdict involved Yidis Medina, a former congresswoman who cast the deciding vote when a congressional committee approved the constitutional change that allowed Mr Uribe to run in 2006.
Chief Justice John Roberts was the deciding vote in that decision, agreeing with his liberal colleagues to uphold the individual mandate, which would financially punish people who do not purchase health insurance.
While you might only keep a 25% equity stake, you could, in theory, negotiate a supermajority requirement calling for 80% agreement on a decision to make mustard--making you the de facto deciding vote.
That, in turn, depends on the two parties splitting the remaining seats 49-50, with the vice-president (who casts the deciding vote in the case of a 50-50 tie) coming from the minority party.
Republicans would only need to control 50 seats in the Senate to pass a repeal bill, because in the case of a tie, according to the Constitution, the Vice President casts the deciding vote.
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In return for supporting tax increases Mr Maldonado wants support for a ballot initiative that would reform the primary system, making it more hospitable to people like him (ah, to hold the deciding vote at such a time).
There is some irony in Roberts' ire, of course, because the chief justice very publicly -- and unexpectedly -- saved the central legacy of the Obama administration last year when he cast the deciding vote in favor of the Affordable Care Act.
"I feel as though I'm kicking someone off the show because neither should be going, but I have to base it on that last performance, and for me the couple that edged it were Lisa and Brendan, " he said after casting the deciding vote.
If you thought the 2001 cuts were tough to get through the Congress, consider that, even with the use of reconciliation once again to avoid a filibuster, President Bush only managed to get passage in the Senate by a vote of 51-50 with Vice-President Cheney casting the deciding vote to break the tie.
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Some voters, Sanford said, told him they will consider his background before deciding their vote.
Furthermore, only about one in 10 Americans says terrorism is the most important issue in deciding their vote for president, the poll found.
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Committee members were split down the middle on the issue, with a single vote deciding the issue.
Many in the crowd, especially blacks, greeted Cardin's colleagues like royalty, even if they were still deciding whom to vote for.
The situation in Iraq is rising in importance among issues respondents will use in deciding how to vote in next year's election.
But few people are policy experts, so they often follow their hearts rather than their heads when deciding whom to vote for.
Not only do workers want this information, insists Casey, in 2010, 60% said they trusted data from their employers and found it helpful when they were deciding how to vote.
The general standard of materiality that we think best comports with the policies of Rule 14a-9 is as follows: An omitted fact is material if there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable shareholder would consider it important in deciding how to vote.
Mr Chidambaram said the government was deciding its position on the UN vote and was consulting its allies on a resolution by parliament.
Pro-choice women were ecstatic: this was the first election in which the female vote had clearly been the deciding force.
Legislators overcame an impasse over a key provincial elections law last month by setting the problem of Kirkuk aside and deciding to exclude the province from a vote expected early next year.
So, where does this leave investors in deciding how to cast their Say on Pay vote?
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Though Asian Americans make up only 6% of the state's registered voters, they could be a deciding factor in a close race with low turnout--if they vote as they did in June's open primary, when Fong took 3 out of 4 Asian voters, many of them "crossover" Democrats motivated more by ethnic pride than ideology.
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