Deciding

Examples

• The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But about other matters, do you know, I have often a difficulty in deciding. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mr. Hale was utterly listless, and incapable of deciding on anything. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I came to you, my sweet, the moment I saw the doubt, and the necessity of deciding. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I'm so silly that I liked to think no one knew, and while I was deciding what to say, I felt like the girls in books, who have such things to do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult; that and deciding whom to trust. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Before deciding that question I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But I think (with your ladyship's permission) I can lay my hand on a person who is capable of deciding whether I am right or wrong. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I endeavoured to say that I knew he was far more capable than I of deciding what we ought to do, but was he sure that this was right? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• After deciding on my wife's mission to London, I arranged that the journey should serve a double purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Such questions may give us pause in deciding upon the extent to which current practices are adapted to develop reflective habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Everything was so beautiful, so compact, so neat, and in such exquisite taste, said everybody, that there really was no deciding what to admire most. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Typed by Alphonse