(a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
(a.) Marked by promptness and 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Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.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.
Undaunted
Definition:
(a.) Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(2) He is undaunted by their scale, and realistic about their shortcomings.
(3) She was undaunted by all the stuff that would be against a woman coming into a field at that level.
(4) Restaurateur Arkady Novikov was similarly undaunted: "I do not think much about these sanctions.
(5) They scramble quickly back to the feet, looking chastening but not undaunted - which is just as well because if they do not finish today's stage all their previous exertions will have been for nothing, like being expelled from college on the eve of graduation day.
(6) The Champions League is an extremely difficult competition but we are on the right track.” The Serie A leaders were undaunted by the pulsating atmosphere created by 70,000 Dortmund fans inside the Westfalenstadion, silencing the raucous home crowd early on when Tevez, who scored in the first leg, was left with far too much space 25 metres out and unleashed an unstoppable shot into the top corner.
(7) Asst Ch Con Roger Bannister said in a statement: “This man is not the only individual being investigated by Operation Enamel and our determination to bring others to justice is undaunted.” Saunders overruled the lead counsel, Eleanor Laws QC, who had recommended that Janner should be charged.
(8) Both the public and researchers also seem undaunted by the cost.
(9) Undaunted by unpopularity, though he was never to make much money until he and Jasper Johns began to decorate the windows of Bonwit Teller and Tiffany under a joint pseudonym in the mid 50s, Rauschenberg pressed on with theatre designs for another Black Mountain friend, Merce Cunningham, and for Paul Taylor.
(10) "On the barges and the bridges and the banks of the river there were people who had taken their places to cheer through the mist, undaunted by the rain," he Queen , 86, observed in her message.
(11) Hundreds of al-Qaida fighters were holed up in the Tora Bora caves yesterday, apparently undaunted by more than a week of heavy American bombing and repeated mojahedin attacks.
(12) If Mike Ashley , Newcastle's owner, who apparently thrashed out a deal with the club's former manager at the Orange Tree pub in Totteridge, north London, last week, remained undaunted, others saw things differently.
(13) Undaunted, Murdoch met Biffen but thought the meeting had not gone well.
(14) At the same time he wants to write enough of a final chapter to take him well beyond the court cases that have wrapped up in London.” Folkenflik said the audacious move was also a bid by Murdoch to redefine his image after the hacking scandal, to demonstrate to the world he was “as relentless and as close to immortal as you can be.” “He wants it to show that his empire is larger than ever, that he’s undaunted and that people think of him unceasingly growing the family empire and giving James and Lachlan more vineyards to play in,” he said.
(15) ‘I’m still for him’: Trump fans undaunted by string of campaign blunders Read more Attending a Serbian cultural festival over the weekend, he told the Washington Post: “Wisconsin Republicans are good at sniffing out interlopers.
(16) As befits someone who use to work as an apprentice under Brian Clough, even if he never quite made it to the Nottingham Forest first team, Dyche makes the best of what he has and is undaunted by the challenge of leading Burnley into a higher division.
(17) So I think that we represent about 60% of Americans with that philosophical belief.” A difficult exchange followed on Johnson’s policies on immigration, tax, a balanced federal budget and the use of American force, the candidate repeating that he was “not getting elected dictator or king” and Wallace countering that “when you say we’re not going to be elected dictator, you’re saying, ‘Don’t take my policies seriously because they won’t get through.’” Undaunted, Johnson closed by emphasising his optimism.
(18) Undaunted by geographic limitations, she surveyed and publicized data that documented the mismanagement of living conditions and health care among the occupational forces on the Indian continent.
(19) It is a clear, crisp morning and the rodents are out in force, seemingly undaunted by daylight or passersby.
(20) Bravely, an undaunted Lansley – or La-La as prominent NHS blogger Roy Lilley called him – returned to the RCN's get-together last year.