Sentence examples for determining election from inspiring English sources

Ninety-five percent of the time, money trumps all other factors in determining election outcomes.

While there is considerable disagreement among scholars as to the mechanisms by which spending affects elections and whether its effects are uniform across both incumbents and challengers, there is some consensus that spending can and does play a major role in determining election outcomes.

Yet of course issues are material to determining election outcomes.

"Tonight's victory reaffirms the significance of marital status, more than just gender, in determining election outcomes," said Page Gardner, president of the non-profit Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund.

So even if money isn't always determining election results (just some of the time), it is still having the same effect as if it were: candidates feel even more beholden to the kind of large contributors that Citizen's United has permitted.

"Our vote could be the decisive factor in determining elections".

"The abuse of buying and selling votes," he wrote of Rome, "crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections.

The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress has been meeting to determine election regulations in Hong Kong, and will announce their decision on Sunday.

Professor Fair has studied the flip side: how the economy helps to determine elections.

The power of the press to determine elections was often exaggerated, even in the pre-internet era.

As the 1850s came to a close and Southern states began talking about secession, immigration no longer seemed like a big enough issue to determine elections.