decisive/deciding/determining factor
noun
: the most important reason
Cost was the decisive/deciding/determining factor in their decision.
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Environmental justice advocates trace this inequality back to decades of discriminatory housing policy, especially redlining – the 1930s government practice of rating neighborhoods’ investment worthiness using race as a determining factor and denying mortgages to minority buyers.
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Ryan Doan-Nguyen, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
When choosing bed sheets, thread count should really only be considered one determining factor, First says.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
Japan’s response to the pandemic will be a determining factor in its strategic future.
—Mireya Solís, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Authors of a 2010 study on fertility treatments and BMI warned about the impact of using this metric as a determining factor for who can and can’t access treatment.
—Emma Copley Eisenberg, TIME, 24 June 2024
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Ryan Doan-Nguyen, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
When choosing bed sheets, thread count should really only be considered one determining factor, First says.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
Japan’s response to the pandemic will be a determining factor in its strategic future.
—Mireya Solís, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Authors of a 2010 study on fertility treatments and BMI warned about the impact of using this metric as a determining factor for who can and can’t access treatment.
—Emma Copley Eisenberg, TIME, 24 June 2024
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