Word Finder - decision

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The act of deciding.

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A choice or judgement.

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It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech.

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Firmness of conviction.

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After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.

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(chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.

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He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.

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A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.

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To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout

It was no small decision for her.

This might be the most difficult decision she would ever make.

He makes final decision on things.

It's not a decision or a wish any more.

We didn't take this decision lightly!

Right or wrong, the decision had been made.

I can't make the decision for you.

She turned away from the beauty of the ranch, reminding herself that she had made the decision to leave.

In spite of her decision not to, she glanced out the window.

We both made the decision to adopt her and we told you it would be permanent, remember?

I made my decision, closed the door.

But you're still not comfortable with the decision, are you?

You know some decision must be come to.

Anyway, I don't want anyone taking over the decision making for me.

This was a decision she had already made once - but not really.

The decision produced a local uproar.

As he had promised, Bordeaux was demanding a decision to his proposal of marriage.

Cynthia finished her wedding pronouncement by tossing out a comment about her foolish son considering delaying the final year of his education to play professional baseball, a decision against which she and Rose Calvia planned to exert a full court press.

The whole expression of his face told her that he had not forgotten the morning's talk, that his decision remained in force, and only the presence of visitors hindered his speaking of it to her now.

I would have thought a gender oriented decision would upset you, but you seem to be on his side.

She was spoiling the men, but her decision to start home from Ashley was going to leave them in the lurch.

Martha and Quinn made their own decision; you didn't chase them off.

It wasn't an easy decision.

Lisa glanced at Connie; not at all sure she was making a wise decision.

That was Howie to a tee; totally dispassionate and prosaic, ready to join the gang and do someone else's bidding but seldom a decision maker.

If you choose not to take it, it's your decision, not mine.

For once in your life, let your heart make a decision.

The least I can do is support your decision.

It was a poor decision.

It was time to stop burdening Alex with every decision and make a few of her own.

After the departure of the Greek troops the Cretan leaders, who had hitherto demanded annexation to Greece, readily acquiesced in the decision of the powers, and the insurgent Assembly, under its president Dr Sphakianakis, a man of good sense and moderation, co-operated with the international commanders in the maintenance of order.

I don't think it's a gender-based decision - not at this point, anyway.

You said you didn't want to sleep with me again and I respect your decision.

We're here for him, whatever his decision.

Only the decision making is left to the farmer—but in the near future, the decision making will be done better by computers.

Your main culinary decision is whether to eat a big breakfast of pineapple pancakes, or save room for a fresh salmon sandwich at lunch.

The decision made, she left the room to find Bordeaux.

Our little group anguished over our decision once we were back together, alternating between chastising and applauding what we'd done.

True to his word, when informed of our decision, he immediately put the gears in motion.

Once I was alone again, I pondered my unilateral decision to speak directly to Ethel Reagan as I sipped on cold coffee.

As the decision deadlocked at two each, I turned to Howie.

While I detested closing our nine month incredible relationship on so sour a note, I felt the decision was his.

Deidre held his gaze, heart quick but calm in her decision.

He has been represented as a determined apologist of intellectual orthodoxy animated by an almost fanatical "hatred of reason," and possessed with a purpose to overthrow the appeal to reason; as a sceptic and pessimist of a far deeper dye than Montaigne, anxious chiefly to show how any positive decision on matters beyond the range of experience is impossible; as a nervous believer clinging to conclusions which his clearer and better sense showed to be indefensible; as an almost ferocious ascetic and paradoxer affecting the credo quia impossibile in intellectual matters and the odi quia amabile in matters moral and sensuous; as a wanderer in the regions of doubt and belief, alternately bringing a vast though vague power of thought and an unequalled power of expression to the expression of ideas incompatible and irreconcilable.

Although Lincoln's appeal brought the border states to no practical decision - the representatives of these states almost without exception opposed the plan - it served to prepare public opinion for his final act.

In using the phrase, "Necessitous men are not free men," Roosevelt was actually quoting from a decision in a well-known 1762 English legal case.

He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really possessed.

She came to a decision.

She straightened, relieved with her decision.

He mulled it over in silence, sipping on his coffee while they all waited for his decision.