(n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
(n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court.
(n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to get some good insight before I make my decision,” said Hiddink.
(2) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
(3) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(4) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(5) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
(6) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(7) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(8) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(9) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(10) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(11) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(12) The time to make the decision and the total time are automatically recorded.
(13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(14) "We have determined that an unprecedented framework has been established, where an organisation that can make decisions at a national level ... will be at the forefront of the investigations," Abe said.
(15) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(16) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(17) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(18) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(19) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
(20) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
Injunction
Definition:
(n.) The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.
(n.) That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
(n.) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
Example Sentences:
(1) The airline had secured its injunction on the admittedly flimsy grounds that Unite broke strict rules over reporting ballot results.
(2) "This is not the death of the super-injunction," he said.
(3) Representing the Sun in the second hearing, Richard Spearman QC told the court that keeping the privacy injunction in place was futile.
(4) He said: "If the presenter of Law in Action had such an injunction and didn't make it clear that that was the case and was conducting interviews and discussions about the very subject then clearly there would be an editorial issue with conflict of interest.
(5) The Sunday Mirror went to court seeking an injunction to order the NoW to stop trying to bribe its staff.
(6) Grieve said: "It is quite clear, and has been clear for some time in a number of different spheres, that the enforceability of court orders and injunctions when the internet exists – into which information can be rapidly posted – does present a challenge.
(7) Whittingdale said the use of social media such as Twitter to breach injunctions was in danger of making "the law look an ass".
(8) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
(9) His removal went ahead despite attempts to obtain a last-minute injunction and a 120-strong vigil outside the Home Office.
(10) Lawyers acting on behalf of the former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas, who the footballer is alleged to have had an affair with and is fighting alongside the Sun to get the injunction lifted, claimed that the injunction battle had become about "the dignity of the court".
(11) Rusbridger delivered his speech, which is named after the anti-apartheid campaigner and South African journalist, in the wake of revelations posted on Twitter on Sunday about the alleged identity of public figures who have taken out high court injunctions to prevent stories being published about them in the press.
(12) They also demand a temporary injunction to the Tempora programme, which allows Britain's spy centre GCHQ to harvest millions of emails, phone calls and Skype conversations from the undersea cables that carry internet traffic in and out of the country.
(13) Friday's ruling, combined with Trafigura's epic failure to suppress information, suggests that courts may be less willing to issue such injunctions in future.
(14) Lord Justice Leveson's court was packed with lawyers, journalists and computer screens, which made it look like a City trading floor, and which – in a way – is the Leveson story: what price privacy, what price the risk of publishing gossip without checking it, what price tip-off fees about the rich and famous that might be worth £5,000 to a police or NHS worker – or the £500,000 (so top injunction solicitor, Graham Shears, told the hearing) for bedding a David Beckham?
(15) Dominic Mohan , speaking before a joint parliamentary committee of examining reform of legislation relating to privacy and injunctions, said that he would ask judges to "balance it [their judgments] more in favour of freedom of expression".
(16) The socialite was among a number of celebrities alleged to have taken out privacy injunctions to stop potentially embarrassing details being made public.
(17) Lawyers for Terry won a high court injunction last Friday, having learned that the News of the World planned to write about his private life.
(18) In a separate development, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has reportedly been asked by another judge to consider a criminal prosecution against a journalist who allegedly used Twitter to name a different footballer in breach of a privacy injunction.
(19) No viable claim for an injunction lies until there is something purportedly done under the act,” he said.
(20) Now, twisted by the likes of the Sun and the Daily Mail to fit their agenda, the term is being used to describe any injunction that prevents them from revealing the identity of people who have asked a judge to prevent publication of articles about their private lives - such as the married Premiership footballer who allegedly had a six-month affair with Welsh model Imogen Thomas (pictured right).