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choice

If you have a choice, you can decide between two or more things or actions. I don't want to go, but I'm afraid I don't have a choice. Many people face a choice between money and love. You have a choice of three cheeses. It's a small shop without much choice of goods. He didn't have to come; he did it by choice. Your choice is the thing that you decide to take or do. His choice of jobs was a good one. I think coming here was the right choice.

choice

Choice food, drink, clothing, etc. is the best of its kind. He let his daughter pick out the choicest pieces of fruit. Choice words are very direct and critical. After the terrible evening, she had some choice words to share with him.

choice

(= pick) the person or thing chosen or selected he was my pick for mayor (= pick) the act of choosing or selecting your choice of colors was unfortunate you can take your pick (= prime, prize, quality, select) of superior grade choice wines prime beef prize carnations quality paper select peaches (= option, alternative) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen what option did I have? there no other alternative my only choice is to refuse appealing to refined taste choice wine

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Simple sentences

You made a wise choice.
You have no choice in this matter.
Make your choice.
Smoking or health, the choice is yours.
There is no choice.
If I had a choice, I probably wouldn't be doing this.
I had no choice but to go there.
That was your choice.
Tom didn't give you much choice.
The pirates had no choice but to surrender.
We have no choice but to compromise.
Women had little choice in the past.
I had no choice but to stay.
I had no choice but to take the plane.
I had no choice but to accept the offer.
We have a wide choice of fruits at the supermarket.
You have the choice of soup or salad.
This is the job of my own choice.
I was unwilling to agree to the proposal, but it seemed that I had no choice.
We have no choice but to do so.
But he knew he had no choice.
This is my choice.

Movie subtitles

What choice did we have?
It's your choice to believe in it or not, but this is real, so.
So, you ready to make a choice?
A multiple choice test.
Look, I don't know you very well, but from where I stand, it seems like you've made the choice not to try or something.
You're not second choice.
Now I have no choice but to fix it by bringing out the big guns.
We each take one and secrete it in a random room of our choice.
It's not as if we had a choice, did we?
I've no choice but to use a commercial pattern, Trixie.
That was his choice.
It feels like a choice to me.
They have no choice.
Well, Julia and I take a more egalitarian approach to decision making, but. Miss Cherry does seem a fine choice, George.
You don't have a choice, Toussaint.
For the moment, I'm afraid there's no choice but to wait and see.
I guess our only choice is to believe what you told us.
You can rest assured. They're in transition. They'll soon complete their choice.
There's no need to make that choice.
No choice. I have to shoot it down.
To shine a light on the doubts in one's heart and, through mere illusions, to lead one to one's choice.
Unfortunately we have no choice but to believe her.
He has the choice of seat then.
You have the choice of seat.
And take your choice.
My choice. is you.
I made this choice.
Making a choice and protecting something is a difficult thing to do.
The choice is for each one to make.
We have no choice but to make progress in spite of them.
Well, you can have your choice.

News and current affairs

Taking on nuclear risk is not a necessity; it is a deliberate political choice.
And a real choice requires Europe-wide election campaigns by all parties.
This would also involve making the choice of the European Commission's president dependent on the outcome of the EP elections.
When the voters decide in the spring of 2007, their choice may depend more on negative than positive considerations, as it did in 2002, when Chirac faced the odious nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round.
While economic analysis can help in making institutional choices, there is also a large role for public deliberation and collective choice.
But, given the pressures of poverty and the lure of cash, what does it take for people to be able to make a genuinely free and informed choice about selling something as significant as a right to land?
Their altruism may include their time and talents, and influence their choice of career.
There are arguments which make the choice far less clear-cut than it may seem.
Whatever responsibility poor adults may bear for their lot in life - they may not have worked hard enough, saved enough, or made good decisions - children's circumstances are thrust upon them without any sort of choice.
The problem for American conservatives is not their choice of candidates or the tone of their rhetoric.
His choice of Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate shook up the presidential campaign.
NEW YORK - Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: international capitalism and state capitalism.
Honoring all three of those legal obligations simultaneously is impossible if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, but raising the debt ceiling without Congressional approval, though illegal and an impeachable offense, was the least-bad choice.
A similar choice was made on the left by Veltroni, whose Democratic Party is now allied with Antonio Di Pietro's Italy of Values Party.
Given that financial integration is particularly strong within the monetary union, putting the ECB in charge was an obvious choice.
Fukushima has presented the world with a far-reaching, fundamental choice.
It had no choice: with financial turmoil threatening to spread from small countries like Greece and Ireland to large ones like Italy and Spain, the euro's very survival was in growing jeopardy.
The advanced countries have a choice.
Often, her only choice is to remain silent or risk disgracing the family.
As a result, these countries were left with no choice but to subcontract their development to the IMF and World Bank.
Carbon-free hydroelectric power is the right choice as sub-Saharan Africa's principal source of energy.
It is a choice that they cannot put off much longer.
Mood stabilizers are the treatment of choice, and, depending on the medication, they can produce potentially significant health complications affecting renal, endocrine, hepatic, immunologic, or metabolic function.
Teamwork was an obligation, not a choice.
The choice of Libya to chair the UN Human Rights Commission adds insult to injury.
Even when this choice became critically acute during the crisis of Russia's short war against Georgia last summer, the West didn't provide a conclusive answer to this question.

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