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decision

a decision is a sudden thought, with purpose, before someone does something. After a person makes a decision, the person has knowledge about a thing the person will do. After much thought, the person made a decision to go to the meeting. A person sees two roads. The person needs to go on one road or the other. The person makes a decision and goes on one of the roads. A decision is the end of a process in a committee. After a committee makes a decision, a record in writing says the important thing. After much discussion, the committee made an important decision about insurance.

decision

(= conclusion) the act of making up your mind about something the burden of decision was his he drew his conclusions quickly (= determination, conclusion) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration a decision unfavorable to the opposition his conclusion took the evidence into account satisfied with the panel's determination (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision over his opponent the outcome of a game or contest the team dropped three decisions in a row (= decisiveness) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose a man of unusual decisiveness

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Simple sentences

Everything depends upon your decision.
I have a decision to make.
It was not an easy decision.
Is that your final decision?
I'll have to speak with Tom before I can make a decision.
Tom hesitated before making the decision.
The decision has been made.
The decision hasn't yet been made.
I made a horrible decision.
Let us know your decision by next Monday.
If you knew how important a decision that was, you wouldn't make it so lightly.
You treated the decision so casually, now you must suffer the consequences.
That was probably what influenced their decision.
I made my decision.
I have made my decision.
There was a feeling of constraint in the room; no one dared to tell the king how foolish his decision was.
Your decision is open to some debate.
I don't approve your decision.
We left the final decision to him.
I applaud your decision to study medicine.
We've made a final decision.
I applaud your decision to quit smoking.
Have you arrived at a decision yet?
The decision was still in the air.
At last, they came to a decision.
Unless you make a decision quickly, the opportunity will be lost.
He said he would give us his decision for sure by Friday.
I don't mind your groping in the dark for a solution, but I wish you'd come to a decision.

Movie subtitles

What lay behind the momentous decision to turn inwards?
Earlier, we've reached to our decision, but why are you pretending to discuss?
If that's your decision. What are you doing?
I go for a decision.
Studying and drinking at the same time: good decision.
I know that's the right decision.
Him continuing to chase after me is a terrible decision, which makes me respect him even less.
Well, Julia and I take a more egalitarian approach to decision making, but. Miss Cherry does seem a fine choice, George.
Well, it's not your decision.
I've already made my decision.
They've made their decision.
And I know I made the right decision.
I know that you shall understand me and approve my decision.
You will have to make a decision if you want to get married or not.
You will regret that decision!
After appearing in a crowd scene on the stage of London's Haymarket Theatre, Rains, at age 10 in 1900, made the monumental decision to devote his life to the theatre.
My Lords. we are to hear from Her Majesty's own lips today. her decision on a matter. that is near to all our hearts.
I am come here today. to tell you my decision.
And giving to it the firmness in decision that it lacked.
The decision has been made to send a second interplanetary giant on a voyage.
It makes up its mind. And once having reached a decision, adheres to it.
Take my offer to your commandant. The decision is his.
I will do everything I can to help you but the final decision is entirely up to the authorities.
That's truly a laudable decision!
A laudable decision.
Yes, a laudable decision.
That's my decision for the time being, gentlemen.
Make the decision, and we'll follow your lead.
In high school, our decision-making skills are not fully developed.
I think it's the frontal lobe of your brain that can't quite get with it to make the right decision, and there's no exception with Lydia.
The Justice Department made this decision.
If that's your decision.
Huh? Why are you going to Funashima? I go for a decision.
The well being of my wife depends on your decision.
Why this sudden decision?
He won the technical decision over Sandy Brown.
He won the technical decision over Sandy Brown by claiming a foul.

News and current affairs

On the whole, though, the public seemed to support the decision.
If they are fully informed of the risks, and are still willing to fly - perhaps the crew has been offered more money, as workers in dangerous occupations often are - should we prevent them from making the decision to fly?
As a result, Kosovo and Serbia would constitute two distinct international subjects, bound by a confederation hinging on a common decision-making body.
Similarly, the US should cast a wary eye at Kuchma's decision to send troops to Iraq.
What is needed are clear checks on arbitrary rule, and transparency in decision-making.
Their financial trust index, based on a large-scale survey of financial decision-makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
And Chinese policymakers made it abundantly clear how unhappy they would be with a negative decision.
The recommendation to enlarge the SDR basket has been warmly backed by Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, and a final decision by the Fund's executive board is expected at the end of the month.
Walking a fine line in what was essentially a lose-lose situation, the party leadership laid out the stakes clearly and judiciously left the final decision to parliament.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
Yet the discussion foundered, and no decision was taken.
And he was stubborn: once he had made a decision - even, or rather especially, if it was glaringly wrong and stupid - he would never revisit it.
It is also true, however, that such training does not provide an adequate foundation for addressing the more abstract, but profoundly important, questions that ultimately must guide global policy and decision-making.
Europe currently lacks military muscle because it made a decision a half-century ago to be protected by the US and devote the saved resources to building up its welfare state.
From here, then, all that is required to become a nuclear power are a few small technical steps and political leaders' decision to take them.
After all, since then the EP's influence and powers of joint decision-making have grown constantly.
Once he knows of it, the decision is his to make, because only he can judge the importance of his journey, and balance that against the risk he is running.
Putin's lawyers will reverse that decision; the party will have cells or committees in every factory, corporation, military unit, university department, etc.
The decision to recommend the renminbi's inclusion, far from having been made on sound economic grounds, can only be understood as political.
The decision to add the renminbi to the SDR basket may have put that danger into remission.
Thein Sein's decision to halt the project is clearly an important policy shift.
The Japan Investment Bank's decision to invest in port development in Burma - essential if the economy, too, is to be opened - is one positive sign that the world will keep pace with Thein Sein step for step.
This means that someone - a husband or mother-in-law - had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
But, as the next growing season approaches, Madi, who is 40, faces a difficult decision: how much cotton should he grow this year?
As a result, the army will be dominant in decision making on important issues like nuclear negotiations.

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