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Meanings of decisive factor in English

A point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively.

Usage of decisive factor in English
1
You might even say that was the decisive factor in our decision.
Man in the Middle
2
Being positive for AQP4 was the decisive factor in the final diagnosis.
Pubmed
3
It is the spirit, sometimes called morale, that is the decisive factor.
The Delta of the Triple Elevens / The History of Battery D, 311t...
4
The most decisive factor today has been the man with the whistle.
The Guardian
5
Force, as the Premier had just said, must be the decisive factor.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement
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A Defense Ministry official said the weather was the decisive factor.
Reuters
7
Again, lack of self-confidence contributed, but hadn't been the decisive factor.
Arcanum Unbounded
8
That political responsibility should be the decisive factor in all the choices we make.
The Guardian
9
In Italy it has not become, as it has in France, the decisive factor.
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
10
The cheapness of acid phosphate, as compared with animal bone, is the decisive factor.
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
11
The 28th Division, afterward in support, was too late to be a decisive factor.
Now It Can Be Told
12
Thus crowding does not seem to be the decisive factor.
Industrial Society and Its Future
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The decisive factor in the contest came from the west.
Christianity: the first three thousand years
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This may have been a decisive factor in his sudden transfer to The Hague.
The Guardian
15
A four-goal haul by Peter Blakeney was the decisive factor.
The Irish Times
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The number of cases that emerge in the next week could be the decisive factor.
Radio NZ
This collocation consists of:
Decisive factor through the time
Decisive factor across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common