Instead the study emphasizes that population size, not compactness, is the decisive factor.
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If money continues to be the decisive factor, these Democratic candidates could be in trouble come November.
If an enterprise is going to attract and retain top talent, mobile tools are becoming a decisive factor.
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If that happens and money ceases to be the decisive factor, California's politics could become wide open again.
With two stout defenses the turnover battle could be the decisive factor in determining who will play Indianapolis.
Professor Michael Lewis-Beck of the University of Iowa and Charles Tien of Hunter College think unemployment is a more decisive factor.
But one decisive factor may be the tensions between the police and many drug-using young people that would result from zero tolerance.
This was now the decisive factor in our two-fold barrier to entry.
But university leaders say the government's immigration clampdown is the decisive factor.
The decisive factor in the election may have been videos of abuse in prison, including a man apparently being raped with a broom.
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The U.S. security posture in Asia has been the decisive factor in ensuring regional stability and prosperity since the end of World War II.
While not clear-cut, an analysis of the story lends to the conclusion that politics were in all likelihood the decisive factor in the decision.
But perhaps the decisive factor is the set of universal communications standards for connecting clients to central servers that has been established by the Internet.
Formations give players an idea of how they might want to view themselves on the field, but they're never a decisive factor in the game.
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Rather, Bush's speech Thursday is likely to be the decisive factor.
In such a setup the power of the education lobby and the sympathy that the media extends to educators become the decisive factor rather than the results.
The Apple document showed, among other things, that trust in the company's brand was a decisive factor in buying decisions in countries that include the U.S. and China.
Obama carried North Carolina by only fourteen thousand votes and, many analysts say, must carry it again to win in 2012, so turnout could be a decisive factor.
The second and perhaps more decisive factor concerns the economy.
But he suspects Jaguar and BMW will be selling passenger models equipped with KERS long before Formula One has made its power-boosting technology a decisive factor in winning races.
Perceptions of firm American support for Israel may be the single most decisive factor in the calculations of her regional enemies concerning the consequences of attacks against the Jewish state.
"The most decisive factor in achieving a sustained increase in first-time buyer numbers is likely to be the performance of the wider economy - especially the labour market, " he said.
National security will not be the decisive factor in whether Obama wins a second term, but it will influence swing voters who traditionally value stability over the uncertainty of new leadership.
While many believe that set-pieces are the decisive factor in a game, for Mourinho the key to winning lies in transitions - the moment when possession changes hands from one side to another.
And, as is the nature of things against the World Champions, a team effort towards that apparently mundane task may be the decisive factor, before we can even factor in Ronaldo's potential for brilliance.
But it would be sad if settling scores were the decisive factor in the outcome of a dispute where real issues are at stake, like the need to scrutinise the way all Western agencies do business with dictators.
The author dismisses the more traditional explanations about why the industrial revolution began in Britain such as an abundance of coal or the insatiable demands of the Royal Navy concluding, instead, that it was England's development of the patent system that was the decisive factor.
As with the late 1940s, such an expression of resolve and magnanimity in our own time may prove to be the key not only to the securing of a Free Iraq, but a decisive factor in making the world safer for democracy in the decades to come.
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