In the London contest, union block votes played a decisive role in handing the nomination to Frank Dobson despite more people having voted for his rival, Ken Livingstone.
During the second of these incarnations, it played a decisive role in shaping the national security platform and policies that would be adopted first by Candidate and then by President Ronald Reagan.
"It is no secret that Russian businessmen played the decisive role in President Yeltsin's victory, " says Berezovsky.
In Kansas, where Triad Management was especially active, the funds may have played a decisive role in four of six federal races.
Anek Laothamatas, the former leader of the Mahachon party in Thailand, argues that businessmen have played a decisive role in his country since the 1980s.
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But the fact is that economics has played a decisive role in all of them.
Senior rebel commanders are said to have played a decisive role in the drawing-up of Hadep's list of candidates.
These troops played a decisive role in the success of the surge.
Mr Cakici (now in a French jail, resisting extradition) is said to have played a decisive role in the bidding for a bank sold by Mr Yilmaz's government to a scandal-tainted businessman.
The presidential election of 2008 was the first one in which Latinos played a large, and perhaps decisive, role.
He played a decisive role in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
They have played a decisive role in dozens of environmental victories, from the phasing out of lead in petrol in the 1970s to stopping the navy in 2003 from using a sonar system that would have deafened or even killed whales.
Larsson spent two years in Spain and played a decisive role in this year's Champions League final when he came on in the second half and set up both goals in the defeat of Arsenal.
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