Sentence examples for as the decisive issue from inspiring English sources
It did so maintaining a disciplined focus on healthcare, notably the threat to protections for pre-existing conditions under Obamacare, as the decisive issue.
"Not many men; it's the women, and a lot of them are saying, 'I hope my husband doesn't find out.' " Mrs. Price hopes they do, for the goal of the organizers is nothing less than to drive gun control as the decisive issue in the presidential and Congressional elections.
The crippling energy crisis was seen as the decisive issue in the general election on 11 May.
The belief, which Rubio told me he shares, is that the stagnant economy will be the decisive issue in the campaign, and that Hispanic voters will vote as most other voters will to punish the Democratic incumbent.
This time, the decisive issue was the move to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," which was widely seen as violating Columbia's policy of nondiscrimination.
For constitutional purposes the decisive issue turns on the operating incidence of a challenged tax.
The decisive issue arose only this weekend when President Donald Trump claimed executive privilege to deny the Senate all access to records involving Kavanaugh's service as staff secretary in George W. Bush's White House.
But these are not likely to be the decisive issues.
They should certainly not be the decisive issues in the referendum campaign.
Amid the attention generated by attacks such as the July 23 bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh, a quieter struggle over Islam's relationship to power stands as perhaps the most decisive issue in the region's still uncertain democratization.
