Sentence examples for deciding state from inspiring English sources

Pennsylvania will begin to look like the crucial deciding state and a win there will carry climactic weight.

"If you went with a later date, you may end up being the deciding state, but you also run the risk of being left out".

But that news barely merited a mention in Sydney or Brisbane once word of Langer's secret selection for next Sunday's third and deciding State of Origin match against New South Wales had leaked out.

As Nate Silver keeps saying — and one can place the qualifications my colleague John Cassidy laid out on that phrase — Ohio has a fifty-per cent chance of being the deciding state this election, meaning that its electoral votes will be the most closely won and provide the margin of victory.

In Saturday's election, Lagos will be a deciding state.

Florida was the deciding state, and Bush won Florida by 537 ballots.

In a close national election, those would be the deciding states.

They say they are intent on avoiding a map that comes down to one or two deciding states, like the one Mr. Kerry faced in 2004.

But wait, there's more: elections aren't decided by national popular vote, they're decided state by state.

In May, in announcing his support for same-sex marriage, Mr. Obama said the issue should be decided state by state.

To the Editor: If to "decide, state by state, about abortion" is better than to decide as a country, isn't deciding individual by individual better still?