The crucial vote is set for the week of May 22.
There is a growing realization by all political parties that we are a crucial vote.
At the last minute the staff lost five crucial votes.
It was the first of several crucial votes on the plan set for the coming days.
He provided the final, crucial vote, and then returned home for her funeral.
However, a crucial vote took place earlier than expected, failing by five votes with Obama and others absent.
This week Congress will cast a crucial vote on my plan for economic recovery.
In some states, they say, the crucial vote could come from American Indians.
A crucial vote is set for today in the State Senate.
But neither side foresaw that his would be the crucial vote.
The national president acts as chair and has a casting vote in the event of ties.
If a casting vote is available, this may be used to break the deadlock.
Some countries have abandoned the concept of a casting vote.
Well if there was a tie, the speaker could give a casting vote, couldn't he?
The speaker gave the casting vote for the sentence to stand.
The Chair has the casting vote in the case of a tie.
In the case of a tie, the mayor has the casting vote.
They thus had control of the council on the chairman's casting vote.
It had all the decision of a casting vote.
He or she has the casting vote in the event of a tie.
As a result, Ireland and Mexico emerged as pivotal votes.
The pivotal vote in the Senate last week, 14 to 10, was also short of two-thirds.
Mexico holds a pivotal vote on the Security Council as it debates how to confront Iraq.
Rarely in recent presidential elections has there been a more pivotal vote than the one in the South Carolina primary today.
The court also ordered that the candidate who is victorious after the recount must be awarded Florida's pivotal 25 electoral votes.
On a sharply polarized Court, Justice Kennedy's is most often the pivotal vote.
Mr. Nunn, a pivotal vote, has staked out his bottom line.
That would leave Justice O'Connor, the first woman on the Court, as the pivotal vote.
Legislators who were considered possible pivotal votes reported that the lobbying on the issue was unrelenting.
They said the split suggested that Mr. Smith could become a pivotal vote on the death penalty.
