This is when we find out if the Dolphins' talent and fundamentals -- the basic factors in determining victories and losses -- will be overcome Sunday by their emotion.
That's the only factor that determines victory or defeat.
When two teams this good play this well, there is little between them to determine victory or defeat.
In the fight against climate change, ordinary consumers will determine victory or failure, since they will be the main customers for the alternative-energy sources or technologies that the Obama Administration hopes to stimulate.
NEW YORK — In what seems a Herculean task, the Republican Party is mounting a major campaign to chip away at the Democratic Party's dominance among Hispanic voters, who could determine victory or defeat in the presidential election in several swing states.
"The ability to quickly and decisively react to market forces, whether they're on the battlefield or in the boardroom, is what determines victory or defeat".
High continues that the valkyries are sent by Odin to every battle, where they choose who is to die, and determine victory.
He later claimed that he had not been talking about nuclear war, but rather about the historically determined victory of communism over capitalism.
He reasoned that two more games would suffice in any case to determine a victory.
Laws are determined by victory in class struggles rather than by any notion of abstract justice.
