Perhaps he was seen as a sixth and decisive vote in support of rehearing en banc.
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Political instability is never good for investors, and Italian voters have just ensured an uncertain future by failing to reach a decisive vote.
Or, take the constant plight of Kennedy, who commentators tend to assume is the decisive vote in each of the court's most important cases.
Their final challenge before the decisive vote involved eating four dishes each in a bushtucker trial, including ingredients such as live cockroaches and a witchetty grub.
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When Congress upset the BJP party to regain control, the decisive vote of an unhappy rural sector (half the country) was a reminder of how democracy provides a healthy outlet for pent-up sentiment.
In the end the decisive vote in New Orleans will come not from those householders who are determined to return but from those who are currently unsure whether to rebuild or move on.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote in close cases, joined the four more liberal justices in raising questions about a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that is being challenged at the court.
Speaking at the White House shortly after the decisive vote in the Senate, President Obama said it was "pretty likely that the uncertainty surrounding the raising of the debt ceiling for businesses and consumers has been unsettling".
Last year, he made history with his decisive vote upholding most of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, preserving the signature initiative of a president who, as a senator, had voted to keep him off the high court.
If the Senate returns to being "the nation's mediator, " the results of its work can pass the Republican House the way the "fiscal cliff" deal did -- by a decisive vote among Democrats, coupled with a minority of the Republicans.
The list will go to a decisive public vote on the Music Walk of Fame website in May.
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Now, in each and every one of the earlier cases, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor cast the decisive fifth vote back when.
But if they do, lobbyist Sharry would urge them to think about 2012 and the decisive Latino vote that will have grown even bigger by then.
For example, Mr Alito's vote was decisive in upholding a rule in Kansas obliging jurors to impose the death penalty in murder cases where they deem aggravating and mitigating factors to be of equal weight.
Since the argument over the underground was central to the mayoral election, Mr Livingstone's decisive victory looked like a vote against the government's plan.
Capturing the Hispanic vote in Nevada could provide an important edge going into the races in California, New York and New Jersey, battleground states where the Hispanic vote could be decisive.
Meanwhile, supporters of Shays-Meehan also offered some last-minute changes to their legislation in a bid to win over representatives who could cast decisive swing ballots in a vote both sides believe could be very tight.
Correctly or not, complaints from business groups that the carbon market and other climate policies are contributing to higher energy prices at a time when they are already grappling with a weak economy appeared to be decisive in Tuesday's vote.
This won't be because the Silicon Valley tech vote is large and decisive.
Both campaigns know that just a single electoral vote could play a decisive role in what's expected to be a historically close race, and that makes what happens in the event of an Electoral College tie all the more intriguing.
The decisive hurdle for the deal is a vote by Euronext's shareholders on December 19th.
Multiply a 1 in 2 chance that Ohio picks the winner by a 1 in 2, 900 chance that each vote in that state is decisive and you get the 1 in 5, 800 chance.
With a vote of 89-8 in the Senate, clearly a decisive, non-partisan agreement was achieved meaning the bill produced would get an up or down vote on the floor of the House.
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One factor here is that a number of Northern Ireland MPs who may be in the US for St Patrick's Day, and who won't get back in time - given that this could be a very tight vote, that factor could even be decisive.
All this suggests that health care itself may not prove decisive at November's elections, even as that vote itself may end up determining the fate of health reform.
The popular vote, which is symbolically and politically important but not decisive in the race, remains very close.
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The Democrats award delegates based on a proportion of the vote, and Tuesday's primaries and caucuses were less decisive than in the Republican races, where many states awarded delegates on a winner-take-all basis.
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In 1960, for example, the popular vote was a virtual tie, but the Electoral College tally was decisive.
Both sides claimed victory in the vote, with Hewlett-Packard saying that it was winning a "decisive majority" of votes for the deal.
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