13684 examples of decided in sentences

That was the duty of the Charleston Convention, and it had decided in his favor, platform, organization, and least of all the individual, by giving him a majority of fifty votes over all the other candidates combined.

He was not only firm in his anti-slavery convictions, but decided in his utterances.

In the later campaigns, while he did not allow his attention to be diverted from the slavery discussion, his disapproval of Know-Nothingism was quite as decided and as public.

This dispatch was laid before the Governor and the members of Congress from the State who were in conference with him, and it was decided that I should comply with, the summons ...

(As reference to the Government publication, "War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies," will be so frequent in the course of this work, and under its full title would require so much space, the authors have decided to adopt the simple abbreviation "W.R.," as above.

All seemed determined, as far as their influence or power extends, to prevent an attack by a mob on our fort; but all are equally decided in the opinion that the forts must be theirs after secession.

But instead of some energetic executive act of this character, he seems to have applied himself to the composition of a political essay to teach the North its duty; as if his single pen had power to change the will of the people of the United States upon a point which they had decided by their votes only four days previously after six years of discussion.

Precisely this issue had been decided at the Presidential election; to do this would be to reverse the final verdict of the ballot-box.

The whole question seems to have been finally decided in a long and stormy Cabinet session held on December 13.

CASES ARGUED AND DECIDED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

After a long protracted controversy, during which Friend Hopper threw as many difficulties in the way as possible, it was decided that four of the persons in custody were proved to be slaves, and the other seven were discharged.

she murmured in a low voice; "now my fate is decided.

Mr. Marchmont had longed for a child, and the tragic story came to his ears through the physician of your mother's family, and he and his wife decided to adopt you and take you to America.

Now whatever society has decided is legal and right for human beings, you must not forget that God also has made rules, and that those rules must first be obeyed, before the rules of man can be regarded as perfect.

I was prepared to hear one of two thingsthat you were soon to be married, or that you had decided to enter the dramatic profession.

But you have decided musical gifts, and before meeting the doctor you intended going abroad to cultivate them after you finished at Vassar.

The woman who has once decided that fine apparel, and comfort, and leisure, are of more value to her than her virtue usually reaches old age or disease before the reformer can even gain her attention.

I have decided to take some of the liberties so many of my acquaintances do, and enjoy life outside my home if I cannot enjoy it within.

And you are missing many sweet friendships and experiences by your insistence that all your friends must follow the narrow path you have decided is the only road to good behaviour.

Their prices were all abominably exorbitant, so I decided to hire for a season.

I decided to take the creature a week on trial, which was a blow to that guileless young man.

Heart-sick and indignant, contrasting his rosy success with my leaden-hued failure, I decided to give all my ducks away, as they wouldn't, couldn't drown, and there would be no use in killing them.

I am glad they can't read them, or they would have all at once, as J.K. Jerome, the witty playwright, decided he had every disease found in a medical dictionary, except housemaid's knee.

When the matter is decided, as the guillotining is going on, Ellen and I sit listening to the axe thuds and the death squaks, while she wrings her hands, saying: "O dearie me!

The cows were continually getting out of pasture and into the corn; the pigs, like the chickens, evinced decided preference for the garden.

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