Sentence examples for decisive number of from inspiring English sources

How did the Democrats lose a decisive number of Obama voters to someone like Donald Trump?

They were among a small but potentially decisive number of first-time legislators.

In so doing, they enabled a decisive number of marginal constituency seats to be delivered straight to Labour.

Southerners -- a decisive number of them -- believed the national Democratic Party did not share their values, and they did not trust the national party with their money.

The most conspicuous clichés to fall, of course, were the twin suppositions that a decisive number of white Americans wouldn't vote for a black presidential candidate — and that they were lying to pollsters about their rampant racism.

Traditionally, governors have been able to leverage the governmental and political apparatus they control to deliver to their party's presidential aspirant a small but sometimes decisive number of extra votes.

Republican leaders discovered that the power of the minority only extended so far if Democrats were tenacious and were able — as with the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and the Start treaty — to lure decisive numbers of Republicans away from the leadership's opposition.

If it's (b), though, then you would expect there to be a substantial-to-decisive number of actual people whose voting behavior reflects the preference for divided government that Rauch discerns.

Breezy, decisive introduction; any number of melancholy-inducing, nearly insurmountable troubles: it is hard being a mouse.

"The administrator has been effective and very decisive on a number of issues [where] he can do things with the stroke of a pen," said Jeffrey Holmstead, a former top EPA official under George W. Bush and now a partner at the law and lobbying firm Bracewell.

But this intuition is not decisive, and a number of theoretical considerations speak against it.