The central bank would work with a proposed Financial Services Oversight Council to decide which companies are too big to fail.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

He said he would support reforms to let ability -- not politics -- decide who would get government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

A study was made to decide which would be a better place for the canal -- Panama or Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Before the American committee had a chance to meet, Britain and Venezuela agreed to let an international committee decide.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Technology has also made it easier for other people to decide what to give the couple for a wedding gift.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

The numbers will also decide how more than four hundred billion dollars a year in federal assistance is divided.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Britain refused again. Finally,President Grover Cleveland asked the United States Congress to appoint a committee to decide the border.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Missus Graham had to decide if the paper would publish the stories and risk possible punishment by the government.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

But later he chose surgery, because it lets him have more time to decide how to help his patients.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Lincoln had to decide immediately what to do about the federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina: Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.07.30