The South Carolina Governor asked Lamon to give Lincoln this message: "Nothing can prevent war except a decision by the President of the United States to accept the secession of the South.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And we're going to do this initially by looking at a straightforward implementation based upon what's called the decision tree.

我们将要做的是看看一种,直截了当的执行方案,这种方案是基于决策树的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is countering the court's decision by pushing for new restrictions on guns which would still comply with Second Amendment rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The citizen in an unqualified sense Aristotle writes is defined by no other thing so much as sharing in decision and office.

生活方式的人,亚里士多德写到公民的定义,从广义的观点看来不外乎就是分享决定和官职。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One of his lawyers,Antonin Levy, called the decision by the French court politically motivated.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

By whom--who made the decision? When did they make the decision?

是谁选择的？何时选择的？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But he said the United States welcomes the decision by President Zardari as important for moving the process of reconciliation forward and upholding the rule of law.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The men were set free,Wednesday, to a tumultuous welcome by their supporters,following a decision by Belgian judge Daniel Fransen, who argued that they were, before any conviction, "presumed to be innocent."

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The Hezbollah-led opposition in Lebanon is taking advantage of the decision by a United Nations-backed tribunal to release four senior generals, Wednesday,to score points ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

He says Sudan thanks the Ethiopian people for standing up against the unjust decision by the international criminal court, as well as its readiness to cooperate with Sudan in surmounting this tribulation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The U.N.-backed forum is building on a decision by the body responsible for domains, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, to allow Web site addresses in any language.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Clinton acknowledged that the lingering election dispute has been one of the factors delaying a decision by President Barack Obama in his administration's policy review over whether to commit more U.S.troops to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

He says the public has a right to be angry about the latest tale of abuse: the decision by insurance giant AIG to hand out big bonuses to executives, even though taxpayer dollars are keeping the company afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Monday saw mobilization by Palestinians against their own leadership, as anger mounts over a decision by the government of President Abbas to suspend efforts to bring war crimes charges against Israeli officials involved in the assault on militants in the Gaza Strip Hundreds of Palestinians protested peacefully in the West Bank town of Ramallah near Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

"The decision by the administration to back away from its missile defense commitment to the Czech Republic and Poland can only demonstrate to the rest of Europe that the United States is not prepared to stand behind its friends, that the United States views resetting its relationship with Russia more important than commitments made to close friends and allies, and that the administration is willing to let Russia have veto power over the disposition of our missile defense architecture,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending Germany's decision to cut spending by one hundred billion dollars over four years.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

Hoover told the nation: "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive decision."

VOA: special.2011.02.24

By the time Spain agreed to the demands, McKinley had made his decision.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

they send you the hard decisions," "By the time a decision gets to your desk, it is a hard decision.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

Rossiter was in court to hear this landmark decision. Helped by a nurse,he arrived in a specially fitted wheelchair.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Speaking to reporters at the U.S.State Department, spokesman Ian Kelly says the Obama administration is deeply disappointed by the Israeli decision.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Allen Sinai,Chief Global Economist at Boston-based Decision Economics,Inc., says the number of jobs created by the stimulus plan might be "a bit disappointing."

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

The strategy review is expected to be completed in the coming weeks, and to be followed by a decision on General McChrystal's troop request.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

He says his decision was guided in large part by new intelligence that shows Iran is focusing on the development of medium and short-range missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

The announcement came after the state Supreme Court declared, in a unanimous decision, that Franken had won the race by a margin of 312 votes.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

His decision to pursue a career in Country music was encouraged by Randy Travis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

U.S.Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner tells VOA he is pleased by this decision.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

"This was the most disastrous decision taken by this government, a decision in which Gordon Brown was not only in the room, but signed all the checks,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.22