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In that scenario, what might be the decisive factor in the Dodgers’ calculus?

Culture was leading a decisive attitudinal and ideological shift among younger people of all backgrounds.

Brazil's recent history and the decades it spent under military rule were also invoked by Justice Cármen Lúcia, who cast the decisive third "guilty" vote on Thursday.

Many in the crowd said they, like the Catholic justice, were devout Christian believers and credited her with casting the decisive vote to end abortion as a constitutional right in the United States.

But what about the full-throated collective cheers that greeted Lagergren's marginally pulled approach that did find the drink on the third and decisive hole of the shootout?