Sentence examples for decisive primary from inspiring English sources

The judicial candidates in Tuesday's decisive primary contests raised roughly $2 million.

As the polls open on Tuesday in the potentially decisive primary vote in Florida, Romney remains the putative frontrunner.

He expressed determination not to feel sorry for himself after losing decisive primary elections in New York, California and elsewhere.

Right now the feisty Mr. Suozzi, still riding the momentum gained from his surprisingly decisive primary victory, appears to have the edge.

Grass-roots campaigners like Mr. Whitehead helped Barack Obama break that barrier last year, giving him a decisive primary victory in southeast Queens, the heart of black middle-class New York, even though party leaders backed Hillary Rodham Clinton.

And at a time when education is a major issue for the city, and in a race with only Democratic contenders thus far, the union's membership could have a disproportionate influence in a potentially decisive primary in 2013.

That — and the frenzied, early and decisive primaries — finds most of the current candidates rejecting the $65 million it would provide as so much chump change.

"There are a couple of decisive primaries that could affect what happens at the county level," said Michael Dawidziak, a political consultant who is advising Mr. Bodkin.

But the contests are crucial in winnowing the field (Orrin Hatch dropped out after winning no delegates in Iowa, and endorsed Mr. Bush) and in helping candidates gather steam for the decisive primaries in big states like California and New York.

Now with a possible Do-Over looming, they may be the most decisive primaries.

Again and again, he's won supposedly-decisive primary victories, only to have the press turn around and insist that actually, it's the next big primary that is the crucial one, the make-or-break moment, the contest that could throw the whole race into chaos.