Which preposition to use with decided
Before they could decide in their weaker minds what the immediate connection was, he had left them, at a sharp slant, in great intellectual disturbance, and was passing out through the entry-way with both his hands against the wall.
I immediately decided on the forecastle.
He had read all these things, and now reported them as he had read: each man could decide for himself as to their credibility.
Even before you found out about my poor old friend, I had decided against a willthough, perhaps, I might have squared the Radbolts by just taking this little placeand its contentsand letting them take the rest.
" Thurston saw clearly that the game was up, and with the recklessness of despair decided at once to accept the inevitable.
"Counsel for the prosecution will make the most of those admissions in the course of his address to you, but the point to which I wish to direct your attention is that we make this damaging admission so that you may decide between the prisoner and the man who led him into a trap by instigating the burglary.
The Supreme Court decided as long ago as 1789 that an income tax was not a direct tax, and need not, therefore, be apportioned among the States.
And Billie, her little imp of mischief at work again, guessed the object of their visit and decided with an inward chuckle to keep them guessing.
You know things today that you did not know yesterday, and tomorrow you will know things you "can't decide about" today.
" "Half the time, such things are decided without a reason at all.
I spoke to the lieutenant in regard to the matter, but he was very decided in his refusal, saying that the boy must stay in camp, and if necessary, he should put him under guard.
It was for the national representatives alone to decide to what minister the King should give his confidence, and what course should be taken as to the annexation of Naples and Sicily.
At each change the people will decide by plebiscit whether they want the respective governments to be: personal, legal, or neither.
"It's a man," the Boy decided after a moment"no, two men, single file, andyesColonel, it's dogs.
Every year the sea makes great inroads upon the coast at Casiguran; as far as I could decide from its appearance and from the accounts given me, about a yard of the shore is annually destroyed.
This fault is frequently discernible in impulsive people, who notoriously make snap-judgments, which means that they decide before canvassing all the evidence.
Leaving the scouts to decide among themselves as to who was to go, I reported to General Sheridan, who also informed me that he wished some one to carry dispatches to Fort Dodge.
Casuistry must be taken in its true and original meaningthe balancing and deciding of individual cases.
The upper one, as seen from an inverting telescope, appeared double-headed, like one near the Dolphin, but much more decided than that, the space between the two heads being very plainly discernible and subtending a decided angle.
For fifteen years from the date of the treaty the government of the territory was put in the hands of the League of Nations as trustee; after fifteen years the population, entirely German, should be called to decide under what government they desired to live.
The spider-webs had not changed, they were plainly used to a chill and made to endure changes of temperature; but C.'s hair, which had never felt a cold greater than that of the nursery, nor a change more decided than from his mother's arms to his father's, had knotted up into a decided curl!N.B.
It was not decided until Appomattox.
She decided within the first twenty-four hours to wait for some sort of lead from Paula before plunging into a discussion of her father's affairs.
She felt that she must confess Christ more boldly, that she must be more decided for Him, however much this profession might appear singular in her recently-acquired rank.
DEBOOTS DECIDED TO AVAIL HIMSELF OF AN INVITATION TO SPEND THE DAY IN THE COUNTRY.