Use decide in a sentence
Sentences ending with decide
- I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]
- He blames you, with what justice I leave you to decide. [9]
- I suppose it will be safe if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. [7]
- Even as Judge Whipple had said, the time was come for all men to decide. [9]
- Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded in every possible way against fraud), so that, when he acquires a legal right, he will have no occasion to wait for additional legislation; and if he has practiced fraud let the courts so decide. [7]
- Whether this occurred unconsciously to you in an hour of mental ecstasy, or whether you felt that you still lacked the means to represent the divine, and therefore returned to the older methods, I do not venture to decide. [10]
- The prefect of the praetorians had, by the Magian's desire, recommended the Egyptian; but Caesar wished to see for himself, and then to decide. [10]
- Give it into the hands of the jury, and let them decide. [11]
- I await with patience whatever may be impending--an early day must decide. [10]
- I will go or I will stay, as you shall decide. [5]
Short sentences using decide
- Wawerl alone must decide that. [10]
- I will decide. [11]
- He shall decide. [10]
Sentences containing decide two or more times
- If they did not decide, they showed what they were ready to decide whenever the matter was before them. [7]
- I think it is extremely important that they shall decide, and rightly decide, that question before entering upon that policy. [7]
More example sentences with the word decide in them
- You are too young to decide what is best for yourself. [11]
- At any rate--do you hear, grandmother?--to-morrow must decide everything. [10]
- Astruc was sixty-nine years old when he published his "Conjectures," the first attempt, we are told, to decide the authorship of the Pentateuch showing anything like a discerning criticism. [3]
- Other hours, however, would follow, and if the next did not decide the fate of the woman whom she hated, future ones should. [10]
- And whereas he would by no means consent, the dispute was taken up by others present and Jorg Loffelholz devised the fancy of holding a Court of Love to decide the case. [10]
- I except your Wolff; let the future decide what concerns him and you. [10]
- It rested entirely with jungfrau Blomberg to decide whether she would accept it at so late an hour. [10]
- I have met with friends, and combated with foes; but none of these gratify my ambition, or decide what is to be my destiny. [5]
- Is it thy will to suffer that which we may decide for thy correction? [11]
- Parpon the dwarf, who that moment perched himself on the fence, could not decide which Valmond was just then--dauphin or fool. [11]
- I cannot decide which I would be. [4]
- He must decide whether I dare allow thee to await the return of the Persian prince, or whether I must entreat thee to forget him and become the domestic wife of a Greek husband. [10]
- As he got well slowly, and life opened out before him again, he felt he had to pursue a new course, and in that course he must take account of Kitty Tynan, though he could not decide how. [11]
- We might as well attempt without any definition to decide whether a certain number of houses should be called a village, town, or city. [1]
- The problem now was to decide upon what to admit. [9]
- What the general was saying was even more clever and to the point, but it was evident that Kutuzov despised knowledge and cleverness, and knew of something else that would decide the matter--something independent of cleverness and knowledge. [2]
- If his prayer was heard, and his Majesty should decide to battle for the holiest cause, sorrowful anxieties would vanish from his pathway as the mists of dawn scatter before the rising sun. [10]
- They felt it was a matter they ought to be able to decide for themselves, but still it was the last evening of Lali's stay in town, and they did not care to take any risk. [11]
- She did not want to think, to decide, and yet she knew--something was trying to tell her that the moment for decision had come. [9]
- The Judge alludes very often in the course of his remarks to the exclusive right which the States have to decide the whole thing for themselves. [7]
- First, they decide upon the question before the court. [7]
- When I got up to see what had happened, the robin was scattered about under the tree in more than a thousand pieces, no one of which was big enough to enable a naturalist to decide from it to what species it belonged. [4]
- Slow to make up his mind in some things, as every eligible man must be, he was now coming rapidly to the notion that he might eventually decide upon Victoria as the most fitting mate for one in his position. [9]
- The writers of universal histories and of the history of culture are like people who, recognizing the defects of paper money, decide to substitute for it money made of metal that has not the specific gravity of gold. [2]
- There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents. [9]
- His temperament and training will decide what he shall do, and he will do it; he cannot help himself, he has no authority over the mater. [5]
- I leave it to you to decide whether it would be better to delay the printing that space of time, or to commence it immediately. [14]
- He was loath to withdraw his faith from the twins, and was resolved not to do it on the present indecisive evidence; but--well, he would think, and then decide how to act. [5]
- Every member had to vote 'Yes' or 'No' in person and before witnesses; so it took weeks to decide a candidacy, because many pilots were so long absent on voyages. [5]
- You have only to see who are our friends and who are our enemies in this struggle, to decide for what principles we are combating. [6]
- He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. [7]
- He couldn't decide to sacrifice anything as long as he had a margin of profit. [4]
- I wish you to realize, Antoinette, before you decide to go, that you may meet Mr. Temple. [9]
- This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
- He can decide to lead an honest life and have his liberty, or he can elect to work for the State all his life in criminal confinement. [4]
- He proposed presently to have the two candidates brought before him, and to decide between them in the presence of the prefect of the praetorians. [10]
- I am going to get two rooms and a parlor; and would like to know what you decide about the Aldriches, so as to know whether to apply for an additional bedroom or not. [5]
- Well, we mean to do what we can to have the court decide the other way. [7]
- It is impossible to decide which of these three modes has generally prevailed throughout the present class of cases. [1]
- It is difficult to decide what to order for dinner on a given day: how much more oppressive is it to order in a lump an endless vista of dinners, so to speak! [4]
- They were trying to decide upon the game to be played in the afternoon. [10]
- It was necessary to decide quickly. [9]
- He must wait to decide her future, which, after all, was deciding his own. [13]
- He was unable to decide exactly what it should be. [5]
- Caesar was eager to decide at once on the destination of each legion, and to call the legates together to a council of war; but Macrinus was not so prompt and ready as usual on such occasions. [10]
- But it is to be hoped that she may decide on remaining in Memphis. [10]
- Mr. Drummond wanted time; they could not decide in the heat of debate, etc. [7]
- It was high time to decide one way or the other.--Well, no; he ought not to go away to-day! [10]
- Not only did they so decide at that time, but they stuck to it during sixty years, through thick and thin, as long as there was one of the Revolutionary heroes upon the stage of political action. [7]
- All the duty they had ever performed seemed as nothing to the task before them; but they had to decide, and that quickly. [5]
- As they stood there, the conviction had come upon her that they had come to the last battle-field, that this journey which Jim now must take would decide all, would give them perfect peace or lifelong pain. [11]
- After disclosing to them his desire to allow the judges to decide and, should the verdict go against Biberli, release him from punishment by a pardon, both undertook to justify the absence of the accused from the trial. [10]
- The Constitution contemplates the question as likely to occur for decision, but it does not expressly declare who is to decide it. [7]
- Leave it to the people of these old emancipating States, and I am quite certain they will decide that neither that nor any other good thing ever did or ever will come of the Nebraska Bill. [7]
- It is for the military men to decide whether they can find a pass through the mountains at or near the Gap which cannot be defended by the enemy with a greatly inferior force, and what is to be done in regard to this. [7]
- I have said: The judges shall decide between you. [10]
- But she conquered the inclination, and simply looked sad and appealing when she said: "Yes, yes, you must decide for yourself. [4]
- The promise and the fulfilment differed so widely that the effect was stunning; he could not decide whether it was most tragic or most grotesque. [5]
- He would decide the fate of the young prince later; but at all events he was to be taken to the place of execution with the rest. [10]
- So this year the deeply offended father held the highest place in the Council, and in the whole community of Nuremberg he, more than any one else, would decide the fate of the Eysvogels. [10]
- I will explain that whenever I want a thing, and Mrs. McWilliams wants another thing, and we decide upon the thing that Mrs. McWilliams wants--as we always do --she calls that a compromise. [5]
- Nathan also said that some man, whom he could not remember, had said lately that Menard County was going to decide the contest and that made the contest very doubtful. [7]
- I sincerely trust that neither you nor any of your readers, and especially none with families, may ever be placed in such seeming direct proximity to death while obliged to decide the one question I was compelled to, viz. [5]
- She knew that that moment would decide her life. [4]
- Always in a tete-a-tete with an antiquarian or a pathologist, or a psychologist, and tells novelists what to put into their next books and jurists how to decide cases. [9]
- It was, unquestionably, taking a great liberty with a man to decide that he should become felo de se without his own consent. [6]
- It did not take England long to decide that point; and not even the Laureate's paean in the organ of the aristocracy and upper middle class could evoke any outburst of feeling. [11]
- If, nevertheless, you still decide in favour of the banquet with your friends, I can not help it; but I must now know: Shall this night belong to me, or to the daughter of Archias? [10]
- And he's right--it's something we've got to decide on right away, and get started on soon, we can't afford to wobble and run any chances of a revolt. [9]
- They decide that something is wrong, they can't make out what. [5]
- His intuitive perception, so necessary in his work, was very fine: he appeared to get at the core of a patient's trouble, and to decide upon necessary action with instant and absolute confidence. [11]
- But we were so distressed by thirst that we decide to try it, and so Higbie fell to work and I took the steering-oar. [5]
- But the Captain smoked in agony until the clouds of two days slipped away from under the stars, for he was trying to decide a Question. [9]
- Iras is a shrewd woman, and will be glad if she can keep aloof from such trifles during the time which will decide the fate of Cleopatra and of the world. [10]
- The course he should propose would be to take up the evidence and decide upon the facts seriatim. [7]
- The velvet gown should now decide whether he gave the preference to her or to pretty Elspet Zohrer--of course, only in the dance--for she would never have accepted him as a serious suitor. [10]
- If the meeting should decide to quit business Jan. 4, I'd like to have Stoker stopped from paying in any more money, if Miss Harrison doesn't mind that disagreeable job. [5]
- As to the short time of incubation, of which so much is made, we have no right to decide beforehand whether it shall be long or short, in the cases we are considering. [3]
- The next moment, she felt, must decide her destiny. [10]
- With passionate eagerness she entreated the emperor to grant a pardon, but he cut her short with the request not to interfere in matters which he alone had to decide and answer for. [10]
- Of course the Senate, and not I, would decide whether to admit or reject him. [7]
- But we shall see, after the performance that is about to take place, which of us two Caesar will decide for. [10]
- It is a secluded spot, high and remote; recent as to discovery; thought by its occupants to be rich in metal--a year or two's prospecting will decide that matter one way or the other. [5]
- Without pretending, he says, to decide on Burr's innocence or guilt, "his situation is such as should appeal eloquently to the feelings of every generous bosom. [4]
- Please examine and satisfy yourself whether this assessment should proceed or be abandoned; and if you decide that it is to proceed, please examine as to the propriety of its application to a gentleman by the name of Charles McLaran. [7]
- Have you any right to decide what their vengeance shall be? [9]
- Jane passed the rest of that day in a vain endeavor to decide what and what not to put in the pack for Venters. [13]
- In case the referee shall find himself unable to decide where the line is by the description of it in the treaty of June 15, 1846, shall he be authorized to establish a line according to the treaty as nearly as possible? [7]
- But he was puzzled to decide whether Mela's willingness to take him into her confidence on short notice was typical or personal: the trait of a daughter of the natural-gas millionaire, or a foible of her own. [8]
- Just what terrible prohibitory terms she was to employ in that letter Cynthia could not decide in a moment, nor yet in a day, or a week. [9]
- He will, therefore, proceed in his remarks, and if any question of order shall be made, the chair will then decide it. [7]
- Croesus had already prepared me for the gracious proposal you have just made, and I have had a long and difficult battle to fight, before I could decide on resigning my dearest blessing for my highest good. [10]
- If, on the other hand, Barbara would decide to take the veil, an arrangement could easily be made for him to hear her often, and her singing might then marvellously beautify the old age, so full of suffering and destitute of pleasure, that awaited him. [10]
- She would fling open a book, and decide in a swift glance whether it had any message for her. [6]
- The Supreme Court of the United States is the tribunal to decide such a question, and we will submit to its decisions; and if you do also, there will be an end of the matter. [7]
- Here the rule of the thinking mind, in whose scales reason and counter-argument decide the matter; among the Cologne people it is the Grand Inquisitor's jailers, chains, dungeons, and the stake. [10]
- That is one of the things the court can decide, but can never give an intelligible reason for. [7]
- In taking leave of his daughters, he begged them not to wait for him, because the Council were to decide the fate of the Eysvogel business, and the session might last a long while. [10]
- If any work of art was ordered by the state, Warner was fairly certain to be chosen a member of the commission selected to decide upon the person who was to do it and upon the way it was to be done. [4]
- But it is obvious that in the majority of cases it must be impossible to decide by which of these channels the disease is conveyed, from the nature of the intercourse between the physician and the patient. [3]
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