Some criterion is needed for deciding between competing ideals.
She has been buying bricks to build a house before deciding on the plan or design; she is attempting to make a big coat out of an insufficient quantity of cloth.
People can hardly fairly discuss the question of missionaries without deciding definitely first of all whether they wish the Chinese to become Christians or not.
Thus, when a man dies, the deciding voice is for his eldest brother, not for his eldest son; than which probably no custom could tend more to conservatism, for there never comes a time when the voice of youth makes itself heard with authority.
Amused by the little adventure, she rode, full of good humour, to Bertrade's castle, where she arrived just when only the two stoutest jousters remained to fight the deciding contest.
The natural result was that she sought consolation in the new faith of her parents, and as soon as they observed this, they lost no time in deciding their child in her resolution, and initiating her fully into their faith and practice.
Why can't you leave us the poor little privilege of the occasional deciding touch, the privilege of succor.
I'll put you on the road in the morning," he concluded, as though this were the deciding qualification.
A young man is wasting his time, if, after deciding to enter aviation, he acquires knowledge that is no more than haphazard.
Deciding to profit to the full by his almost unexpected success, the latter then turned south and marched straight for the Spanish capital.
Deciding that there was nothing good to eat in that vicinity and that the man was carrying out a fell plot for the death of coyotes, it backed away out of sight and loped on to other hunting grounds.
Deciding that it was hopeless in that vicinity, they began casting in great circles on the chance of crossing the trail further back from the river.
The children were wild over this last gift, the only drawback to their delight being the difficulty of deciding which one should take it home.
There deciding that what they learned of the land beyond the Rocky Mountains warranted the carrying out of the missionary project, they determined to part company, Dr.
Join these facts with the additional one that they are surrounded by snowy mountains, and you have no difficulty in deciding their origin.
Except, however, for an accident of that sort, neither of the two great parties has any machinery for choosing its chiefs, or deciding upon its course of action.
Instead of deciding concerning their own modes and customs by any rule of reason, nothing appears rational, becoming, or beautiful to them, but what coincides with the peculiarities of their education.
By the former, the power of deciding the guilt or innocence was vested wholly in their hands, while, by the latter, they enjoyed no power or privilege at all.
By the fire-ordeal the power of deciding was just as unequivocally left in their hands.
Dick Ford," was the reply, Dick deciding that he had better give a fictitious name, he being so close to the British.
Glancing toward the redcoat camp, and deciding that they would not hear him, he sounded a signal that they often used to notify one of the other's whereabouts.
At this the redcoats turned and fled at the top of their speed, evidently deciding that it would not be practicable for them to try to stand their ground.
The Marshal acting no doubt, in conformity with the instructions of Clarke, then Minister of War and Governor of Berlin, wished to arrogate the right of deciding on the captures made by our cruisers.
Thus the reader will have before him the materials for deciding himself how far, Bourrienne's statements are in agreement with the facts and with the accounts of other writers.
Before deciding for one party or the other Bonaparte first thought of himself.
The borsholder summoned together his whole decennary to assist him in deciding any lesser differences which occurred among the members of this small community.
He adopted the frontier notion of nearness when deciding whether or not a particular town that he wanted to strike was sufficiently near the dividing line between the white settlements and the Creek Nation.
If they could crush these, punishing them effectually, they thought, the great body of the Creeks would think twice before decidingto make the contemplated war.
Yes, sir; that is when I decided to make it all on my own since she reminded me of the fact that she wouldn't get no money after I was 18 so that was one thing that contributed to me deciding to leave.
I think my colleague, Mr. Korengold, supported him, really, while he was thinking it over and deciding not to do it.
Ever since deciding to accept the invitation he had lived under just that menace.
It seems reasonable, then, that the workmen should have their opinion, and have a voice in deciding how long they will work.
There is no way of deciding what is a fair day's wages.
We see then that, when a rich person decides how to spend his money he is deciding not how many more workpeople shall be set to work, but what kind of work they shall do.
It was not in Shelley to distinguish between the various impediments, and discover grounds for deciding that some of them should be retained, whilst others might be abolished.
Deciding to defer the performance of the painful duty, till Claire should have been withdrawn from the vicinity of the Palazzo Lanfranchi, he prevailed on her to go back to Spezia on the morrow, in the company of his wife and Trelawny.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deciding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conclusion; crucial; settlement; ultimate
