Pinkerton sighs over the room and its associations, sheds a few tears, and then decides the strain is too great for him.
The king decides to settle the question by single combat.
After vainly beseeching high heaven and all the gods to restore his lost Eurydice, Orpheus decides to brave the realms of Pluto.
The king feels bound to grant the hero's request, but finally decides to retain Aida and her father as hostages of peace.
Accordingly, after deliberation, she rejects the case of the blind, anddecides to take up the problem of how to make humble homes attractive by simple art.
But if she decides to be a social promoter and leader, she must continue to call on the people who invite her to dinner, or she is not likely to be asked again.
Upon my soul, Anstice, I can't understand how a woman ever decides between the two claims.
I am and remain subject to the authority of the Holy See, but I ventured to discuss a question not yet made an article of faith; if your Holiness decides it to be such in a Constitution, I shall certainly not dare to oppose it.
The campaign of Regulus is an instance how singularly they adhered to the idea that superiority in tactics decides everything.
But this, according to Professor Stuart, "decides against the righteousness of slavery" even as a "theory.
What must be the moral character of any institution which the Golden Rule decides against?
Perhaps, however, the case only decidesthat the pocket-book was not lost within the condition of the offer.
The Dean of Windsor's Case decides that such a covenant binds an assignee of the term, although not named.
No passage has met my eye in which Bracton expressly decides that an easement goes with the dominant estate upon a disseisin, but what he says leaves little doubt that he followed the Roman law in this as in other things.
There must be provocation sufficient to justify the passion, and the law decides on general considerations what provocations are sufficient.
A committee decides which is the handsomest baby, which the best-natured, etc.
The stories are then read aloud and a committee decides which is the most improbable story.
These are put on exhibition on the table and an umpire decides for which prizes are to be given.
For example: A goes from the room, and the company decides that he shall represent King Henry VIII.
The flowers are collected and a committee decides who has made the most perfect flower.
The guessing goes on as before until the leader decides to stop it.
I have sometimes heard it said of a good judge on these subjects, and of exquisite taste, that man decidesaccording to mere caprice.
Pontas, who, in three folio volumes, decides on all the possible cases of conscience in France, and is unknown to the rest of the world, says that on no occasion should confession be disclosed.
The justice of the peace, who is an honest man, but frightened of losing his place, always decidesagainst me.
Bringing in profit is the consideration which decides everything in this little town which you thought so pretty.
The leaving foul ground in overrunning decides the point against him.
But after a game has been commenced, and it be interrupted by rain, the umpire alone decides whether the field is in fair condition for resuming play after such suspension of the game.
The Skeptic decides that there is no such thing as truth, before he enunciates the dogma that it is not worth while to worry about anything.
If he decidesthat they have, he is satisfied; he has proved something to exist.
The quantity of nuclear substance decides whether the egg is capable of undergoing embryonic development.
It is in the power of the queen-bee to produce male or female individuals: by an act of will she decides whether the egg she is laying is to be fertilized or unfertilized.
The amount of this power depends upon the predisposition of the germ; and natural selection, while it apparently decides between individuals of various degrees of strength, is in truth operating upon the stronger and weaker germs.
Such a result can be easily understood if it is only the presence of more or less germ-plasm whichdecides whether an egg is, or is not, capable of development without fertilization.
It shall be so no longer; this last insult to us decides me!
But if Ameres decides that you had best fly, I might on my return find that you have both gone.
Uli's master overhears his neighbor talking to Uli, decides to interfere, and points out to him the noose into which he is running his head.
Uli sees that the master is right, and decidesto think no more of the matter.
An honest judge decides the law, not as it ought to be, but as it is, and the state of the public mind throws no light upon the question of what the law then is.
He decides for himself; in other words, he is a free man.
Then the Senate Committee, using the House decision as a basis, recommends something to the Senate, and the Senate then decides on something more or less like what the Senate Committee recommends.
Finally, the House Naval Committee decides on a programme and recommends it to the House.
Even if he decides and acts on the advice of others, the responsibility remains with him.
Congress, and Congress alone, decides what vessels and other craft shall be built, how many officers and men shall wear the uniform.
Strategy thinks out a situation beforehand, and decides what preparations as to material, personnel, and operations should be made.
The government decides on a policy, and tells the Navy Department to carry it out, employing the executive offices and bureaus to that end, under the guidance of strategy.
The House discusses it most seriously (the professional points more seriously than the financial point), and decideson something.
That momentous hour that comes, so people say, once at least in the life of every man, and decides his future, had struck inauspiciously for him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
