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How to use the word decides in a Sentence?

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I can’t speculate on his mental processes and what he decides to speak on, i’m concerned not with words but with action and he is a man of action.

John Stemberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In what I think is the unlikely chance that he ultimately decides not to run this time, he will need to do so soon enough that other candidates can get into the field to be competitive, i am encouraging him to run, and I think he will run. But he will make that decision on his timeline, not mine.

Chris Coons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States military has developed multiple options for our national leadership to consider if or when Iran decides to develop a nuclear weapon.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If politics decides who can take part in a competition, then sport and athletes become tools of politics, it is then impossible for sport to transfer its uniting powers. We must be politically neutral but not apolitical. We know well that politics rules the world. We know well that our decisions have political implications and we have to include that in our thinking.

Thomas Bach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whoever decides to restore it must follow strict guidelines, and may be eligible for grants from the government.

Doug Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I felt relief, and then it was like a rug was pulled from underneath me, whichever way SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US) decides to rule, it will at least be nice to have an answer.

Austin Steele/CNN Clausen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People can see with their own eyes that things are going well in Florida, so I’m not surprised that his message is resonating. If and when he decides to get in he’ll have to convince people that his vision is best for America, i think it’s going to be a tough choice for Republicans. We’re glad he came, and maybe dipped his foot in the water here, but we certainly welcome a visit from the former president and anyone else.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The seed that decides to grow, reaches the fruits.”

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

Congress decides how much they want the executive branch to spend, so it’s a little bit unusual that they would tell them to go spend this money and then not give them the tools, but that, ultimately, is for the elected leaders to reach an agreement.

Neel Kashkari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Courts would be overreaching, and it would shift a court from a judicial role – where it decides a specific dispute – to something more like a legislative role where it decides a question or an issue without a factual dispute between the parties.

Professor Samuel Bray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unless he decides to repent, Matteo Messina Denaro, even locked up, will continue to be the king of the Cosa Nostra because no one is ready to sit on the throne that he left only half-empty.

Roberto Saviano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't think President Biden's textbook approach to correctly handling the discovery of misplaced documents will have any impact on his re-election if he decides to run, the difference between the two is apples and rotten oranges.

Brad Woodhouse

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

God is holding this planet, I'm wondering when he decides to let go.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

We're trying to make it easy for people to do good things by giving them lots of ideas. But in the end, what really matters is whatever good deed a person decides really matters to them.

David Paine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The problem is not only with what’s right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what’s right and wrong.

Zaman Ali

added by J
1 year ago

We will provide protection firmly and by all means. The key here is the capabilities of the Navy, which is able to respond with lightning speed to anyone who decides to encroach on our sovereignty and freedom.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That begs the question that if there are preset charges in Building Seven, what's to stop there for being preset charges in Buildings 1, 2 8, 9, and 27 ? are there charges in every building in New York City ? Is everyone ready to be brought down whenever some elite bureaucrat decides that he's gon na pull New York City ?

Michael Peroutka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we're talking about family members or loved ones, I think the most important principle is just to try to stay connected, so that if that person then decides that they want to come back out of the rabbit hole or make a change, there's something to come back to.

Joseph Ma Pierre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden needs to focus on addressing the humanitarian crisis his reckless leadership has created at the border, instead of attacking the jobs of hardworking Texans and oil production in the Permian Basin, the Lone Star State will not sit idly by as the federal government chooses to ignore the historic number of illegal crossings, human smuggling, and drug trafficking of deadly fentanyl from Mexico into the United States. Our government has no greater responsibility than to provide public safety to its citizens. Until President Biden decides to uphold immigration laws passed by Congress, the State of Texas will continue utilizing every tool available to secure the border and keep Texans – and Americans – safe.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Simply, we decided to put those jets at the disposal of NATO's not expecting anything in return because we stressed very clearly that as a gap-filler for the donated equipment we are able to buy what we would need as a replacement, and we, ourselves, were ready to do that and provide our equipment free of charge and that we wanted NATO, as a whole, to make a common decision so that Poland remains a member of NATO, not a country who decides on its own on important issues, which impact the security of NATO's help, which would impact this initiative of all members of NATO. Also, our neighbors who are part of NATO, members of NATO.

Andrzej Duda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think this is really about a fundamental question of who decides the major issues of the day, should it be unelected bureaucrats, or should it be the people's representatives in Congress ? That's what West Virginia is all about.

Attorney General Patrick Morrisey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The most important thing is to prevent a new armed attack on Ukraine, and therefore we support all efforts by NATO allies to find a political solution, and NATO's also ready to sit down in the NATO-Russia Council with Russia. If Russia decides to use force, that may, of course, be a large number of people fleeing Ukraine.

Jens Stoltenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wish I could take it back, i compounded that by running away from it. I destroyed everything, so I deserve whatever the court decides.

Quee Choo Chadwick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It'll be interesting if Peter Thiel decides to move in that direction.

Katie Harbath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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