Sentence examples for closely decided from inspiring English sources

On several closely decided issues, Kennedy said he would have voted differently than Evans.

The 2008 election saw fewer closely decided states (where the margin of victory was less than 5%) than any other in recent memory.

Justice O'Connor, perhaps the court's leading pragmatist, cast only five dissenting votes in the entire term, far fewer than anyone else, and was in the majority in 13 of the 18 most closely decided cases, more often than any other justice.

With his cabinet choices complete, Mr. Bush will now turn his attention to policy, and is vowing to move boldly ahead with the agenda on which he campaigned instead of scaling back on the most contentious proposals because of the closely decided election.

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Kennedy was the Republican-appointed justice who most commonly bucked conservative interest groups and sided with the four-vote liberal minority on closely decided cases.

Following this news coverage closely, Bay decided to investigate.

A baby elephant, perhaps?" When I asked her to look more closely, she decided it was "a kind of dog".

At first, Romanovsky speculated that this was a result of vandalism, but after inspecting things more closely he decided that it was the work of a bear.

Based partly on that, the personnel chief said, his team and many others studied the 34-year-old Warner closely and decided to look elsewhere for veteran quarterback help.

In a briefing with reporters on Thursday night in South Africa, Mr. Powell suggested that he had looked into the assertion more closely and decided it was not based on sufficiently reliable information to repeat to the United Nations.