And French President Nicholas Sarkozy has decided to return France to NATO's military command for the first time in more than forty years.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

It has decided to support selling more energy saving products such as low-energy light bulbs.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

He has decided to play for the Miami Heat.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

This was the surprise announcement Friday from Oslo,Norway "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for two thousand nine is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

VOA: special.2009.10.10

Overall,Barroso said, the EU has decided to boost its humanitarian emergency funding to Pakistan more than tenfold, to about $100 million.

VOA: standard.2009.06.17

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

But she has decided to forgive him. No good,she says, can come from holding on to that bitterness.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

He says relations with most of people here are still good, and he has decided not to use bodyguards, despite tensions following the Bangkok violence.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Responding to consumer complaints, even Apple has decided to get into the recycling business, offering gift cards or discounts to customers who bring in select used electronics for recycling.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

but she has not had the best of luck in the romance department and, with her biological clock ticking away, she has decided the "right guy" may never show up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

But the effort took its toll and Gay has decided to skip the 200 meters and rest in the hope that he can compete for Team USA as part of the 4x100 meter relay team.

VOA: standard.2009.08.18

Family and friends of jailed U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi are saying they are relieved she has decided to put an end to her two-week old hunger strike, in the aftermath of an Iranian pledge to hear her appeal next week.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU has decided to earmark nearly $90 million in new humanitarian aid for people displaced by the conflict in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley and other areas where the government is fighting a fierce Taliban insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.06.17

In a statement on Monday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the president is pleased that the Senate has decided to include a public option, and that he supports it because it has the potential to hold insurance companies accountable through choice and competition.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Russia agrees with us on that,". "At the same time that we are very vigorously pursuing this track, we are aware that we might not be as successful as we need to be so we have always looked at the potential of sanctions in the event that we are not successful, that we cannot assure ourselves and others that Iran has decided not to pursue nuclear weapons,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Sometimes a person fights a battle that has been decided or keeps arguing a question that has been settled.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The nation's top law enforcement official said the Obama administration is reviewing each detainee's case, and has not decided where to send them.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

"The president has not decided where some of the detainees will be transferred,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats decided to strip the war funding bill of the money for Guantanamo's closure until President Obama has a detailed plan for handling the detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates is attending this meeting with a similar message, calling for a broad range of additional European help in Afghanistan, even though President Barack Obama has not yet decided whether to send more U.S.troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

That was when we decided to seek justice." In Moscow,the campaign has been fueled partly by an incident in February, when the Mercedes of the vice president of the oil company LUKoil, carrying a blue light, collided with a Citroen.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19