(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.
Leaven
Definition:
(n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
(n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
(v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
(v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
(2) One reader wondered whether good fantasy narrative needed perceptions of "reality" in order "to leaven it".
(3) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
(4) The predominance of S. exiguus, its vigor in the particular acidic environment of the sour dough, and the correlation of its numbers with the leavening function constitute strong evidence on the role of this organism in the sour dough system.
(5) There was always a rueful melancholy, stiffened by irony and leavened by humour about him.
(6) After the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC the Greek garrisons of India and Afghanistan found themselves cut off from their Mediterranean homeland, and had no choice but to stay on, intermingling with the local peoples, and leavening Indian learning with classical philosophy.
(7) Twenty breads with leavening times varying from 0 to 120 h were prepared.
(8) The phytic acid content of bread containing bran was reduced to about 40% after 2 h of leavening and to 15% after 2 d. No further decrease was observed.
(9) This paper takes as index the content of free acids and total acids, the action of pepsin in the stomachs of hungry mice, impelling functions and intestines of hungry mice and makes a comparison of the raw products with the processed products of medicated leaven.
(10) The Telegraph, for whom he writes that weekly column, says he would be the business secretary , but that must be the paper’s attempt to leaven all the hard news with comedy.
(11) Extrinsic labeling of the calcium of whole-wheat flour results in a degree of labeling homogeneity equivalent to that of intrinsic labeling, at least for a leavened bread product.
(12) The feasibility of adding chick-pea flour substituting part of wheat flour in yeast-leavened bread-making in order to increase the protein value, was studied.
(13) In the majority opinion of Kimble v Marvel Enterprises, justice Elena Kagan sprinkled quotes and allusions to Spider-Man into the court’s decision, using unusually wry language to leaven the ruling about a patent for “web-slinging fun”.
(14) The relative biological value of thiamin in leavened bread (whole wheat and thiamin-restored white) and thiamin mononitrate was examined by using thiamin-deficient rats as the test model.
(15) And God and the church who live in our cities want to be leaven in the dough, and relate to everyone, to stand at everyone’s side.” It was a message crafted for a city not famous for compassion but recognised as open, tolerant and dynamic.
(16) To study the biological value of kumyss leaven, experiments were made with mono-cultures contained by kumyss leaven.
(17) The accounts, in my view at least, are not sufficiently sifted and leavened and tempered by time and distance.
(18) These are admittedly extravagant additions and the leavened dough crust requires a little effort, too, but if this pudding didn't merit the work I'd be the first to forsake it.
(19) Although fructooligosaccharide inhibited the dough leavening ability of YOY920, white bread containing fructooligosaccharide could be produced in the defined dough formula using the new strain.
(20) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.