In remarks offered on the occasion of his receiving the Center for Security Policy's annual "Keeper of the Flame" award, Kasparov spoke of the decisive role in the destruction of Soviet communism played by President Harry Truman's policy of containment and President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
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.
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.
This book treats only cases in which Americans played the decisive role in deposing a regime.
"It is no secret that Russian businessmen played the decisive role in President Yeltsin's victory, " says Berezovsky.
In Kansas, where Triad Management was especially active, the funds may have played a decisive role in four of six federal races.
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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But the fact is that economics has played a decisive role in all of them.
Senior rebel commanders are said to have played a decisive role in the drawing-up of Hadep's list of candidates.
These troops played a decisive role in the success of the surge.
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.
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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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.
The presidential election of 2008 was the first one in which Latinos played a large, and perhaps decisive, role.
He played a decisive role in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
On the line are the fruits of countless hard-won battles in which the Center for Security Policy has played an important, and occasionally decisive, role.
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.
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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