You feel that one guy with a small signature can decide everything and you feel totally powerless.

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"Making it through this round or not will decide everything, " he said.

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The elections will decide everything.

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To get rid of that longer term mystery, the ONS would have to decide that everything it had said about GDP in the past two years was wildly wrong -that instead of being flat, we actually grew by more than 2%.

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But politicians don't necessarily decide to say out loud everything that passes through their head.

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One contributor pointed out that the 'decide first, then negotiate' is starkly at odds with the Downing Street approach to reform on the European Union: 'negotiate everything first, and then decide'.

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Everything waited for the boss to decide and hence nothing was ever completed on time.

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"It will be up to the court to decide whether to hold on to (the Filegate portion) until they have everything, or even not release it at all, " Independent Counsel spokeswoman Neille Russell said Wednesday.

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So I'm going to do everything I can and make my case and you know the voters get to decide.

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The Pre (and its accompanying operating system) could likely decide the fate of the company largely credited with ushering in the age of the do-everything phone.

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But I will not be able to avoid the responsibility if I decide that as a citizen I have to do it, that I have to leave aside everything and try to be of service to my people, my country.

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