From that point begins, according to my opinion, the bad influence of the writer, because he not only decides difficult questions to be decided once and forever, but he popularizes them and facilitates the corruption of society.

"The next daynamely, the 25thshe tries to dispose of a pair of earrings to Mr. Campbell; she fails, and decides to go to London, where she has a better chance.

She has been sizing up the increment of utility which a sixth pound would yield, and she decides that this is worth the expenditure of a further 7 cents.

When, for instance, one of us happy-go-lucky males (more liberally supplied, perhaps, than the housewife with the necessary cash), decides to buy a motor bicycle, or to replenish his stock of collars or ties, does the above analysis bear any resemblance to the actual facts?

It is the man who, before he buys a motor bicycle, weighs the matter up very carefully indeed and only just decides to buy it, whose demand affects the price of motor bicycles.

Caesar, induced by these circumstances, decides that he ought not to wait until the Helvetii, after destroying all the property of his allies, should arrive among the Santones.

And, finally, the record of his admission into Corpus Christi College, at Oxford, decides the matter beyond all controversy; and, by certifying his age to be sixteen, proves that he was born in sixteen hundred and eighty-eight.

The government, in self-defence, decides to check the dissemination of these subversive ideas and makes the profession of that creed a crime, not on account of its particular tenets, but on account of the social consequences of those tenets.

Ruffini (of whose excellent work on Religious Liberty I have made much use in this chapter) decides in favour of Jurisdiction.

I received his charge, and, having spent a pistol or two on each other, I dismounted him in the closing, but being armed cap-a-pie I could do no execution on him with my sword: at which instant one Mr. Matthews, a gentleman pensioner, rides in, and with a pole-axe decides the business.

The campaign of Regulus is an instance how singularly they adhered to the idea that superiority in tactics decides everything.

In the great moments of life, when a man decides upon an important step, his action is directed not so much by any clear knowledge of the right thing to do, as by an inner impulseyou may almost call it an instinctproceeding from the deepest foundations of his being.

Take this away, and take all pleasure, joy, comfort, happiness, and true content out of the world; 'tis the greatest tie, the surest indenture, strongest band, and, as our modern Maro decides it, is much to be preferred before the rest.

To which the Count answers, that she overrates the danger; a soldier may often make several campaigns without drawing a sword, and be in a battle without seeing an enemy, as, for example, where one is in the second line, or rear guard, and the first line decides the contest.

The quality of the man himself decides.

That little movement decides whether the train shall go north or south.

Then I sees a masked Toreador coming along, and I decides to arsk him all about it.

They are nearin' or past thirty when he decides that with economy an' no children they can afford to maintain a home.

One syllable has stress of course, And words of two the first enforce; In longer words the penult guides, Its quantity the point decides; If long, 'tis there the accent's due, If short, accent the last but two; For accent, in a Latin word, Should ne'er go higher than the third.

The trained schoolmaster of to-day takes the existence of such impulses as a normal fact; and decides how far, in each case, he shall check them by relying on that half-conscious imitation which makes the greater part of class-room discipline, and how far by stimulating a conscious recognition of the connection, ethical or penal, between acts and their consequences.

Before America decides; foresight in foreign affairs.

The merchant, when the dreaded hurricane Tosses his wealthy cargo on the main, Applauds the wars and toils of a campaign: There an engagement soon decides your doom, Bravely to die, or come victorious home.

Neander positively decides against that epistle.

"It is force, or chance, that decides the issue of the battle.

This is a crisis, you knowthis night decides my fate for good or ill, all rests with merciful God!"