But the fact is that economics has played a decisive role in all of them.
He played a decisive role in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Senior rebel commanders are said to have played a decisive role in the drawing-up of Hadep's list of candidates.
In Kansas, where Triad Management was especially active, the funds may have played a decisive role in four of six federal races.
These troops played a decisive role in the success of the surge.
Anek Laothamatas, the former leader of the Mahachon party in Thailand, argues that businessmen have played a decisive role in his country since the 1980s.
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In the London contest, union block votes played a decisive role in handing the nomination to Frank Dobson despite more people having voted for his rival, Ken Livingstone.
In 2010, he founded Demand Progress, a lobbying group that advocates for progressive policy changes and has played a decisive role in recent battles against Internet censorship.
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Nonetheless, despite all of its progress Slovakia still has extremely serious problems with official corruption, problems so bad that they played a decisive role in deciding the recent parliamentary election.
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Mr Cakici (now in a French jail, resisting extradition) is said to have played a decisive role in the bidding for a bank sold by Mr Yilmaz's government to a scandal-tainted businessman.
During the second of these incarnations, it played a decisive role in shaping the national security platform and policies that would be adopted first by Candidate and then by President Ronald Reagan.
Larsson spent two years in Spain and played a decisive role in this year's Champions League final when he came on in the second half and set up both goals in the defeat of Arsenal.
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They have played a decisive role in dozens of environmental victories, from the phasing out of lead in petrol in the 1970s to stopping the navy in 2003 from using a sonar system that would have deafened or even killed whales.
But when Suharto announced a budget in January that flouted earlier pledges to the IMF, telephone calls from his ASEAN colleagues as well as U.S. President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro are thought to have played a decisive role in persuading him to sign a revised agreement to make tough reforms.
The aim is to build institutions to match the president's democratic ideals and attract the political interest of some of the 30m or so young people who played such a decisive role in Mr Khatami's election.
This book treats only cases in which Americans played the decisive role in deposing a regime.
The presidential election of 2008 was the first one in which Latinos played a large, and perhaps decisive, role.
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