Decides

Examples

• That decides that, Robert Jordan thought to himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If her debts press, and she decides on sending it away, then we have our man ready, and we meet the Moonstone on its arrival in London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• H'm--have you considered the consequences if she decides for divorce? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He stops hard by Waterloo Bridge and reads a playbill, decides to go to Astley's Theatre. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was spared the disgrace of appearing publicly as a criminal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• One is that they may be spun out almost interminably, even, possibly, to the end of the life of the patent; the other is that the judge who decides the case does not see the witnesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But, however much you two men fight for her, remember it is the lady herself who decides whom she will take. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Does he not on the contrary feel a freedom of will within him, which, though you may call it fallacious, still actuates him as he decides? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The boss, and the bosslet, the heeler--the men who are it--all are there exercising the real power, the power that independently of charters and elections decides what shall happen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• One ought to be at Enscombe, and know the ways of the family, before one decides upon what he can do, replied Mrs. Weston. Jane Austen. Emma.
• This is the principal question, and decides without appeal concerning the nature of the idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When geometry decides anything concerning the proportions of quantity, we ought not to look for the utmost precision and exactness. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is not you who decides what shall be done. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But accident often decides the fate of battle. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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