Decided Sentence Examples

We decided to go see a movie.

I decided to buy it.

I decided to see for myself.

The princess decided to leave on the fifteenth.

After he died, she decided to stay here.

The smoke proved to be too much for Adrienne and two other girls, so they decided to walk each other home.

Anyway, maybe he decided not to come back.

He was silent so long that she decided he wasn't going to answer.

Before Rostov had decided what to do with him, the officer cried, "I surrender!"

And so it was that she decided to go in the opposite direction.

We'd decided a transcription of our conversation might sometime prove valuable.

Why had he suddenly decided he needed a maid - or was it sudden?

He married and decided to stay there.

No one was around, so she decided to explore the path.

Why had he hidden them - and why had he decided to reveal them?

We haven't decided yet.

I decided that being truthful was the best approach.

The count decided not to sit down to cards or let his girls out of his sight and to get away as soon as Mademoiselle George's performance was over.

After a brief discussion we decided to telephone first and leave the visit option on the table, at least for now.

Alex decided to build a room upstairs for his office, out of the reach of Destiny's exploring hands.

In any case it will be decided very shortly.

That was when Mary decided to relieve her mind of a troubling thought.

I decided to use that and keep you close.

She had decided to receive them, but feared lest the prince might at any moment indulge in some freak, as he seemed much upset by the Rostovs' visit.

Those who were able to get away were going of their own accord, those who remained behind decided for themselves what they must do.

Couldn't sleep, so I decided to get up and fix breakfast.

That's when I decided to ask you to marry me.

We never-the-less decided to postpone discussion until the following day when, as Martha said, we had a night of rumination and our wits about us.

I decided to pick Daniel Brennan's brains on the matter Howie's sister Annie's abduction.

We finally decided the pros out weighted the cons and I should make the call.

I just decided it was a fait accompli and we might as well address the situation as best we can.

Right then and there I decided I was going to marry him.

She passed three face painting clowns before she gave in and decided to have her own done.

He'd not considered sending her home-- no, he'd decided to kill her!

I didn't have any classes today and I decided to take off work.

In 1790 the interest was reduced to 3%, and as the treasury had again become exhausted, a further issue was decided upon; it was also decreed that the assignats were to be accepted as legal tender, all public departments being instructed to receive them as the equivalent of metallic money.

A decided decline is shown by the graves which have been discovered, until the country reached the low level at which it was found by the Russians on their arrival towards the close of the 16th century.

She has talked incessantly since her return about what she did in Huntsville, and we notice a very decided improvement in her ability to use language.

I left it all in flames, replied Michaud in a decided tone, but glancing at the Emperor he was frightened by what he had done.

The wolf finally decided they were no threat and turned his back on them, trotting away across the vast grassland.

At Martha's suggestion over coffee the next morning we decided on the public library in nearby Lynn as our destination.

I told Betsy about the flare up between Quinn and Martha before Quinn decided to go to Santa Barbara alone.

Decided to collect after all?

Much as he disliked making Fred wait, he decided to put off the task until nine o'clock but another phone call forced a change of plans.

But then you were so convinced the bones belonged to that man Josh that I decided to let matters play out.

Seeing the bet, he decided he wanted to stick around long enough to observe a few more events in the women's futures.

Neither a hero nor a Good Samaritan, Wynn found himself retreating to the far wall, in case the worst-case scenario happened, and one of the powerful creatures decided to act.

She had decided to let it grow long, even though she feared the weight of it would remove the curls.

Later that evening while they were alone, Carmen and Alex decided that the next time Lori came by or called, Carmen would talk to her and tell her that the option to take Destiny back had passed.

Finally, when she decided he wasn't there, she began to cry.

One day, when Destiny was with Grandma Reynolds and Jonathan was at staying with a friend, she decided to go down to the house before she went to the hospital.

Back at the room, she decided to hold Alex's hand while she talked to him.

She'd passed through that stage after a few months and decided to make – and fulfill – her bucket list.

I'll leave the coffee for you and check in later to make sure you haven't decided to act prematurely.

Neither, he decided, was his past.

She reminded herself that the man named Darkyn promised to help for free, whichever way she decided to go.

She could always double-check and walk away, if he decided not to honor his deal.

I've decided to take a mate.

Not only could she not escape, but she could just as well starve to death if he decided never to return.

My head hurts, my body hurts, and I was nearly sliced open before you decided to show up last night.

I haven.t decided what to do with you yet, and you may end up with an assassination contract on your head.

He.d decided to sleep in here last night, unable to sleep in his bedchamber with the thought of Iliana.s body in the trunk beside the bed.

Her fate would be decided by a demon and an assassin, and she.d never see her Rhyn again.

One look at her disheveled '70s garb, and she decided to change into pajamas.

Kiera doubted she would change her mind but decided to humor her happy friend.

What did it matter if she decided to leave and went about doing it her own way?

On the third day, he decided to land.

How have they decided to react to your freedom?

If the giant of a man before her decided to be angry at her for breaking the rules, she'd panic as well.

She wanted to tell him she wasn't ready for this, that she hadn't even decided to stay yet.

They discussed their options—snowshoeing and cross country skiing—but decided to try out the ice skates that they had purchased for one another for Christmas.

Perhaps that's why many of the citizens of the picturesque town decided they might as well enjoy mother nature's offerings rather than remain locked indoors for six or seven months.

After introductions and the necessary sign-in paper work was complete it was decided to assign Ms. Turnbull a second floor room.

Dean too was curious about Annie Quincy's writings but decided not to join the pair.

No other guests were due to arrive for a few days and with the housework up to date, thanks to the temporary help of Janet, the Deans decided to try out the fresh snow on the cross country trails on Red Mountain.

Dean decided to leave that statement alone.

But, he decided, he had no reason to distrust the man.

He then added, "But when your sister was so snooty about the coins and other items and short changed Fred O'Connor, we decided to keep the notebook."

Dean decided to seize the moment.

Dean decided to take matters into his own hands.

Corday looked at Fred, seemed to consider asking him to leave and then decided he'd best leave well enough alone.

Maybe she decided to snuff him out, to keep him quiet.

The ice climbers decided to get in a quick climb and blame their delay returning home on the cops.

Too bad she decided to do it here at Bird Song.

He considered flying to Indiana, but decided against it, at least for a day or two.

I haven't smoked since I decided not to kill Donald Ryland and let him marry me!

I think Shipton found the pages and decided to follow Annie's method of death.

She had decided to break the news last night.

The first time, in the forest after they escaped Victor, when they decided they could never return to their families.

When Jackson came along, Emily decided he would be her baby and always took care of him.

He considered going down to the drawing room for a drink, but decided, he too, felt quite weary.

Throwing on some jeans, a T-shirt and a pair of Nikes, he decided to take a walk, but first, he would check on Sarah.

So if I tried for a week or two and then decided I couldn't handle it, you'd still make me forget.

Since it was Friday and all the fun ones would be out drinking after work, he decided to take another walk, then maybe a nap.

Jackson decided if things didn't turn soon he would have to influence her.

He decided to take a walk to Coronet Park and grabbed a bag of bread on his way out for the ducks.

She decided on a big slab of meat.

Jackson could not help but feel she had decided to let her guard down and give him a chance.

He had evidently decided to hang back a little longer.

They had discussed choosing one surname many years back, but their names were the only connection that remained to their human lives, so decided against it.

I'm really glad I decided to come tonight.

As they walked to the bar, he decided to make sure that the night they met wasn't just a fluke.

She glimpsed the mess that was her face and decided to wash it and redo her makeup.

Met the devil himself and decided I'd had enough of this shit.

All of this would assume that you've decided you have no further use for me.

I decided to leave before doing something to upset you.

Confessing there in her kitchen was not an option, but he needed to have this behind them, so decided he would tell her as soon as possible.

Jackson decided to take a chance she might be there.

Have you decided on costumes yet?

He decided that even if she sounded like a cat in heat, he would gush over her with praise.

Yes, we've decided I will be spending the night in your five-star dungeon.

We decided to say I have cancer and need chemotherapy.

Elisabeth woke before Jackson, and decided to bring him breakfast for a change.

They had decided on baked stuffed lobster and Crème Brûlée, two of his favorites.

Elisabeth said, The car is more for Connor, so we decided to get you a little something of your own.

Connor had decided not to tell his parents about their marriage.

Once they had settled on October 12th for the wedding, and decided to use the same caterer they used for the Halloween gala, Elisabeth suggested they give it a rest until after Christmas.

Connor had decided to tell his parents they were going away for the holiday and Elisabeth didn't want to deal with any family issues on her first Christmas with Jackson.

Jackson had decided to build a gallery on the grounds, and although she protested, he knew she would be thrilled with it.

Like, why you decided to start a goat dairy?

Caked with mud, they both decided to walk to the house while Katie parked the car.

I always wanted to be a veterinarian, so I decided to fulfill that dream.

Snowflake must be the little white doe you decided to keep.

But I am concerned about any other systems he decided to disable.

Rhyn's gone ape-shit crazy and decided to kill Death.  Toby's in Hell, and Darkyn is planning something big, but I don't know what.

I met Gabe, and he took me to Andre, who raised me for a few years, before my brothers decided I was better off in Hell, he summarized.

The Byrne address was on the east side of town, but as Dean had time to kill, he decided to drive west to what the locals called the beltway, a loop road around the city.

Yeah. It said 'Stick with school' so I decided it was worth a thousand to send her some money—like something Byrne would do.

The Berlin congress decided that it should remain with Servia.

Dromotheriidae, and apparently showing decided traces of reptilian affinity.

But, like all the vicissitudes, of the Italian race, while it was a decided step forward in one direction, it introduced a new source of discord.

In 1282 he received a more decided check, when Sicily rose against him in the famous rebellion of the Vespers.

Elisa Bonaparte and her husband, Bacciocchi, rulers of Lucca and Piombino, became the heads of the administration in Tuscany, Elisa showing decided governing capacity.

Meanwhile Thiers had given place to Marshal Macmahon, who effected a decided improvement in Franco-Italian relations by recalling from Civitavecchia the cruiser Ornoque, which since 1870 had been stationed in that port at the disposal of the pope in case he should desire to quit Rome.

A small but decided tendency to a decrease of susceptibility in very strong fields was observed.

This mollified Jim a little, and after some thought the green maiden decided to give the cab-horse a room in the palace, such a big building having many rooms that were seldom in use.

So it was decided that the boy should go to some school where he might be prepared for college.

After reading this, I decided I concur.

He decided to have the guns removed from their positions and withdrawn in his presence.

He had decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand.

On reaching home Prince Andrew decided to go to Petersburg that autumn and found all sorts of reasons for this decision.

They had decided to be at the ball by half past ten, and Natasha had still to get dressed and they had to call at the Taurida Gardens.

It was decided that the count must not go, but that if Louisa Ivanovna (Madame Schoss) would go with them, the young ladies might go to the Melyukovs', Sonya, generally so timid and shy, more urgently than anyone begging Louisa Ivanovna not to refuse.

Sometimes, as she looked at the strange but amusing capers cut by the dancers, who--having decided once for all that being disguised, no one would recognize them--were not at all shy, Pelageya Danilovna hid her face in her handkerchief, and her whole stout body shook with irrepressible, kindly, elderly laughter.

He decided that he would rather wash himself with water in the barn.

In the village, outside the drink shop, another meeting was being held, which decided that the horses should be driven out into the woods and the carts should not be provided.

It's as the old men have decided--there's too many of you giving orders.

He had not decided what it should mean when he heard the voice of the eldest princess at the door asking whether she might come in.

So the way in which these people killed one another was not decided by Napoleon's will but occurred independently of him, in accord with the will of hundreds of thousands of people who took part in the common action.

But something had to be decided, and these conversations around him which were assuming too free a character must be stopped.

So she decided that it was necessary to prepare the opinion of society.

Having learned that there were many charitable institutions in Moscow he mentally decided that he would shower favors on them all.

She was planning something and either deciding or had already decided something in her mind.

Pierre's way led through side streets to the Povarskoy and from there to the church of St. Nicholas on the Arbat, where he had long before decided that the deed should be done.

But before he had decided what to do, Davout raised his head, pushed his spectacles back on his forehead, screwed up his eyes, and looked intently at him.

Just as it is impossible to say when it was decided to abandon Moscow, so it is impossible to say precisely when, or by whom, it was decided to move to Tarutino.

After much disputing and arguing, Major-General Grekov with two Cossack regiments decided to go with the Polish sergeant.

So it was decided to send a dispatch to the staff.

After talking for some time with the esaul about next day's attack, which now, seeing how near they were to the French, he seemed to have definitely decided on, Denisov turned his horse and rode back.

There was now within him a judge who by some rule unknown to him decided what should or should not be done.

And Pierre decided that the steward's proposals which had so pleased him were wrong and that he must go to Petersburg and settle his wife's affairs and must rebuild in Moscow.

A few days previously Pierre had decided to go to Petersburg on the Friday.

The session was mercifully short and they decided to go to check out the renovated house and make sure it was ready for the new renters.

Almost the only respect in which the Left could boast a decided improvement over the administration of the Right was the energy displayed by Nicotera in combating brigandage and the mafia in Calabria and Sicily.

As the demands upon the services of the cavalry increased, it was decided to supplement the regulars by the enrolment of wealthy citizens who kept horses of their own.

Meanwhile the government decided on his arrest, and no sooner was this made public than the populace rushed to the attack of the convent.

He knew Fred would be waiting up for him, but decided to let the old man cool his heels, punishment enough for setting up the evening's activity on the sly.

He could answer that one without any effort—he hadn't decided.

Dean felt more than just a little fuzzy and decided to call it a night.

Jeffrey found the money, told her about it, and the two decided to fake his death and start a new life.

I thought we decided you were strictly an inside man from now on.

They decided against it, cautious about frightening off Byrne if he should get wind of the search and realize someone was this close to finding him.

He told her about Cynthia and she talked about someone named Jack who was a med student whose family thought she was a jerk and they both decided life was too damned complicated and lots of the times it sucked, but not at times like this.

He consid­ered calling for a taxicab but when he found the motel was close by he decided to exercise his tightening leg and walk.

Drenched in sweat and covered with dirt, she decided to go swimming in the creek.

Showering again, she decided to go to bed early.

He must have considered that before he decided to come get her tonight.

He must have decided she was in a better mood, because he smiled.

Every time she decided to give a little, he did too.

Alex decided to ride down on his side of the creek and see if he could find a tree across the creek.

Carmen and I have talked it over and decided this is the best solution.

After a shower and lunch, she decided to go back down to look at the inside of the house.

They decided to kiss again... and then again – a little longer.

On the other hand, maybe he decided not to talk to Josh.

He told her to stay away from his house, but he didn't say anything about hers, so when she needed a picture that was in her house, she decided to make a quick trip over and get it.

Leaving the picture and her purse in the car, she decided to look around and see if there was a carcass.

As she watched him climb into his truck, she decided that she could tell him in the morning.

She started to go check and then decided to see if his truck was outside.

He was heading for his office, so she decided to take the opportunity for some alone time of her own.

She could simply tell him she decided to eat healthier.

She finished chores and decided to go look for evidence.

Donning a pair of low sandals, she decided to check on the lamb one last time before Alex arrived.

Maybe he was working in the south pasture and decided to come see you.

One night while they were quietly eating supper together, she decided it was a good time to talk to him about it.

It was a good thing she decided not to go.

Leaving the food on the table, she decided to take a bath.

A half hour passed, and then an hour before she decided to check on him.

How could Alex know why she had decided to spend so much time with the twins, or why she hadn't gone with him to Texas?

I thought you wanted to go, but when you declined, I decided I must have misinterpreted your interest.

You've been all over the world and you decided to move here.

Princess followed as she led Ed to the corral, but Random and Casper decided to stay near the house.

Carmen circled Princess around behind the cow and she finally decided to follow the captured calf.

They had decided on putting down a new floor and putting sheet rock over the walls.

He'd go, grab Yully, and come back, he decided.

The demon moved at last, though it hadn't yet decided what to think of the visitor.

My fate is decided.

I have decided this.

I was afraid you would miss it all, but I was glad to hear you decided to spend a little more time with your father.

That was the plan, but after talking to his father and Morino, he decided to stay the night.

They had decided that their discussion that night would stay between the three of them for a while.

Gerald and Aaron discussed the other two bedrooms and Aaron decided on the small room upstairs.

Still, Carmen was surprised when Felipa, Aaron and Rob decided to go for a moonlight walk.

A half-hour later, at the creek, Gerald decided he wanted to walk a while.

Carmen decided to stay with him while Felipa took Aaron and Rob up the trail.

They all agreed that the new look was cool and then decided on pizza for lunch.

I've decided to take an extended vacation.

They decided to stay another week.

Maybe he had decided being in control of the estate was better than having no control in his home.

It was on one of those days that Carmen decided to ride down to the stable on Princess and see how things looked.

He didn't get physical until he decided she thought she was too good for him.

On the way home she decided to stop at the clinic and see if Alex wanted to go out to lunch.

They read for about an hour before Carmen decided to turn in.

That was when some inconsiderate soul decided to knock on their door.

The last part she had decided only in the last few weeks, but so far she hadn't found the opportune time to tell either her father or Denton.

Even if she had decided to work somewhere else after graduating, getting her parents to let her sink or swim would have been impossible.

I decided to follow your advice and take a vacation.

What if someone decided to kidnap her?

After the third attempt failed, she decided to call from the store.

Inside the house, she decided on a piece of corn on the cob.

So Denton had decided to follow her after all.

Well, you finally decided to be sociable.

She remembered the strong, thoughtful little boy whose life she decided to sacrifice for her cause.

He was that sexy, she decided.

Had he decided to fire her?

Body, the leader decided.

She hadn't slept well and hoped Xander decided to go out this morning and leave the house to her to search.

You decided not to take it.

You just decided to sit on the beach and watch the man you can't stand.

Not only had he given her the power over the world, but he'd decided he wanted to sleep with her twice.

Xander didn't say what he wanted, that he took a chance on Jessi, but she hadn't yet decided to take one on him.

That was before I decided to go vegan.

The epoch-making victory of the 12th of September 1683 was ultimately decided by the charge of the Polish cavalry led by Sobieski in person.

In 1876 Garfield for the eighth time was chosen to represent his district; and afterwards as one of the two representatives of the Republicans in the House, he was a member of the Electoral Commission which decided the dispute regarding the presidential election of 1876.

In November 1274 it was decided by the diet at Nuremberg that all crown estates seized since the death of the emperor Frederick II.

The Supreme Court in 1871 decided in favour of West Virginia, and there has been no further question.

He indeed became so disgusted with the false position of a pretender to the crown, into which he was being forced, that he wished to go to America, but, as the comtesse de Buffon would not go with him, he decided to remain in Paris.

The Pisans and Genoese now disputed about the ownership of Sardinia, but the pope and the emperor decided in favour of Pisa.

A succession difficulty in Bavaria-Landshut was only decided after Maximilian had taken up arms and narrowly escaped with his life at Regensburg.

Instead of these are cats with more or less abbreviated tails, showing in greater or less degree a decided kink or bend near the tip. In other cases the tail is of the short curling type of that of a bulldog; sometimes it starts quite straight, but divides in a fork-like manner near the tip; and in yet other instances it is altogether wanting, as in the typical Manx cats.

A meeting at which he was present after his return to Paris decided his vocation.

His father had been a coal-dealer, and he himself had thought of becoming a money-changer, but finally decided in favour of a political career.

Scaurus decided in favour of the latter, who was able to offer more money.

The ministers with all but absolute unanimity decided to commute their life-interest and form therewith a great fund for the support of the Church.

The Union Civica then decided to make a bold bid for freedom by attempting forcibly to eject Celman and his clique from office.

The local affairs of the commune are decided by the municipal council, and its decisions become operative after the expiration of a month, save in matters which involve interests transcending those of the commune.

A series of fresh depositions were sent in against her, and in June 1679 it was decided that she must stand her trial; but she was protected by the king, who in this instance showed unusual chivalry and earned her gratitude.

The lord warden's claim to prize was raised in, but not finally decided by, the high court of admiralty in the "Ooster Ems," 1 C. Rob.

Although commonly described as white, the hair has a more or less decided tinge of yellow, which appears to be more marked in the summer than in the winter coat.

About 130 the emperor Hadrian decided to rebuild Jerusalem, and make it a Roman colony.

New South Wales having decided in favour of federation, the way was clear for a decision on the part of Western Australia.

After much negotiation the leader, Mr William Lane, a Brisbane journalist, decided on Paraguay, and he tramped across the continent, preaching a new crusade, and gathering in funds and recruits in his progress.

Foundry, and it was decided to build a royal brass foundry at the "Tower Place," as the establishment at Woolwich was called until 1805.

Imagining that this would interest Hertz and be successfully attacked by him, Helmholtz specially drew his attention to it, and promised him the assistance of the Institute if he decided to work on the subject; but Hertz did not take it up seriously at that time, because he could not think of any procedure likely to prove effective.

In 1591, three years after the defeat of the Armada, Raymond and Lancaster rounded the Cape, and after cruising off Penang, decided to winter in Achin.

Both these oaks grow well in British plantations, where their bright autumn foliage, though seldom so decided in tint as in their native woods, gives them a certain picturesque value.

The contention brought to a crisis the struggle between the moderate Presbyterians and the Scots on the one side, who decided to maintain the monarchy and fought for an accommodation and to establish Presbyterianism in England, and on the other the republicans who would be satisfied with nothing less than the complete overthrow of the king, and the Independents who regarded the establishment of Presbyterianism as an evil almost as great as that of the Church of England.

The war being now over, the great question of the establishment of Presbyterianism or Independency had to be decided.

The disposal of the king was now the great question to be decided.

It has been said that his battles were decided by shock action; the real emphasis should be laid upon the word "decided."

The papal legate decided in 1266 that Siger was the ringleader,.

She had no choice in these matters, which were often decided in her childhood.

The manufacture of the cable, begun early in the following year, was finished in June, and before the end of July it was stowed partly in the American ship " Niagara " and partly in decided to begin paying out in mid-ocean, the two vessels, after splicing together the ends of the cable they had on board, sailing away from each other in opposite directions.

In short, all-round competition was authorized, and the Post Office decided to establish a telephone system in London in competition with the company.

A capital expenditure of 1/24,000,000 annually was decided on to bring the lines up to the necessary state of efficiency to be able to cope with the rapidly increasing traffic. It was estimated in 1906 that this would have to be maintained for a period of ten years, with a further total expenditure of 1/21 4,000,000 on new lines.

To encourage the poorer classes of the people to become landholders, it was decided that the lots offered for sale should be small, and that the purchaser should be allowed to pay by five or ten yearly instalments.

The courts of appeal and cassation, too, often have more than they can do; in the year 1907 the court of cassation at Rome decided 948 appeals on points of law in civil cases, while no fewer than 460 remained to be decided.

The Italian Chamber decided that from the 1st of July 1901 until the 30th of June 1907 Italian military expenditure proper should not exceed the maximum of 1/29,560,000 per annum fixed by the Army Bill of May 1897, and that, military pensions should not exceed 1/21,440,000.

Subsequently, it was decided to repeal these additional tenths, the first being abolished in 1886 and the rest in 1887.

But these wars were fought for the most part by alien armies; the points at issue were decided beyond the Alps; the gains accrued to royal families whose names were unpronounceable by southern tongues.

The destinies of Italy were decided in the cabinets and on the battlefields of northern Europe.

On Joseph declining, Napoleon finally decided to accept the crown which Melzi, Marescalchi, Serbelloni and others begged him to assume.

In Rome the triumvirate decided to defend the republic to the last.

All reasonable men were now convinced that the question of the ultimate form of the Italian government was secondary, and that the national efforts should be concentrated on the task of expelling the Austrians; the form of government could be decided afterwards.

Cardinal Antonelli would have come to terms, but the pope decided on making a sufficient show of resistance to prove that he was yielding to force.

The Sacred College having decided to hold the conclave abroad, Crispi assured them of absolute freedom if they remained in Rome, or of protection to the frontier should they migrate, but warned them that, once evacuated, the Vatican would be occupied in the name of the Italian government and be lost to the Church as headquarters of the papacy.

The opposition outside parliament was in fact so overwhelming that the ministry decided to drop the bill.

Those present decided to contend to the death for their "long-lost liberties," and with this the meeting came to an end.

Having decided to take orders he graduated, by special letters from the chancellor, at Exeter College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1722.

Yet, as Strauss and others have shown, Kant's mind betrayed a decided leaning at times to a more mechanical conception of organic forms as related by descent.

At Chalcedon, on the other hand, the imperial commissioners decided points of order, kept the synod to the question, took the votes and adjourned the court.

This synod frequently decided questions belonging to other patriarchates.

After careful analysis, he decided not to go.

We may also observe here that, like Epictetus, he is by no means so decided on the subject of suicide as the older Stoics.

It has been decided in the law courts that a limited liability company is not a person in the eye of the law, and therefore does not come under the operation of the act of 1868.

Beyerinck was led to take up the decided position just mentioned by his researches into the conditions determining the formation of plant-galls as the result of injury by insects.

Together with Szilagyi, the Minister of Justice, Csaky was one of the most decided champions of obligatory civil marriage and of the rights of the Jews.

A conference of Catholic savants, held in 1863 under the presidency of Dellinger, decided that authority must be supreme in the Church.

If we assume, as we must needs do, that the opinions which Basilides promulgates as the teaching of the "barbari" (Acta Archelai c. 55) were in fact his own, the fragments prove him to have been a decided dualist, and his teaching an interesting further development of oriental (Iranian) dualism.

Whether Basilides himself had already given this magic tendency to Gnosticism cannot be decided.

His position was assured, at least temporarily, in 617, when he decided to espouse the cause of the Northumbrian prince Edwin, then a fugitive at his court, and defeated zEthelfrith of Northumbria on the banks of the Idle, a tributary of the Trent, in Mercian territory.

As a precaution against Tatar invasions he founded fortified towns on his southern frontiers - Tambov, Kozlov, Penza and Simbirsk; but when the Don Cossacks offered him Azov, which they had captured from the Turks, and a National Assembly, convoked for the purpose of considering the question, were in favour of accepting it as a means of increasing Russian influence on the Black Sea, he decided that the town should be restored to the sultan, much to the disappointment of its captors.

For some time Tsar Alexius hesitated, because he knew that intervention could entail a war with Poland, but after consulting a National Assembly on the subject, he decided to take Little Russia under his protection, and in January 1654 a great Cossack assembly ratified the arrangement, on the understanding that a large part of the old local autonomy should be preserved.

The majority of this decided to approach the crown with a suggestion for a reform of the Russian system on the basis of a national representative assembly, an extension of local self-government, and wider guarantees for individual liberty.

The dispute was to have been decided in the lists at Coventry in September; but at the last moment Richard intervened and banished them both.

The number being so great, it was decided to offer 500 goats yearly.

Shortly after the plans were announced for building the Western Pacific, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul also decided to extend west.

Ten years after the passage of the law, the court decided that the Commission had no power to prescribe a rate, and that its jurisdiction over rates was confined to a determination of the question whether the rate complained of was unreasonable.

While failing to correct all the defects in the original statute, the amended law was a decided step in the direction of efficient regulation.

Rodrigues set out at once for Lisbon to confer with the king, who ultimately decided to retain him in Portugal.

The government was administered under this treaty, but with considerable friction, until the end of 1898, when, upon the death of Malietoa, two rival candidates for the throne again appeared, and the chief justice selected by the three powers decided against the claims of Mataafa, and in favour of a boy, Malietoa Tanu, a relative of the deceased Malietoa.

In 1902 the king of Sweden, as arbitrator under a convention signed at Washington in 1899, decided that Great Britain and the United States were liable for injuries due to action taken by their representatives during the military operations of 1899.

After coquetting for a short time with the project of a life of Moliere he decided to follow in the track of his first work with a History of the Conquest of Mexico.

With an exceptional range of information thus afforded him, he wrote the opening of his history in July 1849; but, finding himself still unsettled in his work, he decided in the spring of the following year to carry out a long projected visit to England.

But Gibbon's friends in a few weeks discovered that the new tutor preferred the pleasures of London to the instruction of his pupils, and in this perplexity decided to send him prematurely to Oxford, where he was matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College, 3rd April 1752.

Deyverdun, a young Swiss with whom he had formed a close and intimate friendship during his first residence at Lausanne, and finally decided in favour of the land which was his " friend's by birth " and " his own by adoption."

According to Josephus, Titus decided to spare the Temple, but - whether this was so or not - on the 10th of August it was fired by a soldier after a sortie of the Jews had been repelled.

The canon of Scripture was decided in accordance with the touchstone of the Pentateuch.

The allied powers (France, England and Russia) decided, however, that Crete should not be included amongst the islands annexed to the newly-formed kingdom of Greece; but recognizing that some change was necessary, they obtained from the sultan Mahmud II.

The " Solemn League and Covenant," which pledged both countries to the extirpation of prelacy, leaving further decision as to church government to be decided by the " example of the best reformed churches," after undergoing some slight alterations, passed the two Houses of Parliament and the Westminster Assembly, and thus became law for the two kingdoms. By means of it Henderson has had considerable influence on the history of Great Britain.