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decision and prioritize
A fiscal conservative and disciple of Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, Chandler opposed parts of Roosevelt's New Deal and openly disagreed with the president's decision to prioritize European operations in World War II over the war in the Pacific.
He vociferously disagreed with Roosevelt's decision to prioritize European operations in World War II over the war in the Pacific.

decision and natural
Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.
This is a natural decision version of the problem, analogous to those frequently used for optimization problems, because it can be combined with binary search to solve the function problem version in a logarithmic number of queries.
Application areas include system identification and control ( vehicle control, process control, natural resources management ), quantum chemistry, game-playing and decision making ( backgammon, chess, poker ), pattern recognition ( radar systems, face identification, object recognition and more ), sequence recognition ( gesture, speech, handwritten text recognition ), medical diagnosis, financial applications ( automated trading systems ), data mining ( or knowledge discovery in databases, " KDD "), visualization and e-mail spam filtering.
In United States v. Brown, the court defined material statements as those with " a natural tendency to influence, or is capable of influencing, the decision of the decision-making body to be addressed ," such as a jury or grand jury.
At this time, due to Ceauşescu's decision to ban abortion and contraception, natural increase was also significant.
It had been a natural history museum, but a decision had been made that it was not to be so any longer, and the collections had been transferred to other museums.
In 1954, the Supreme Court decision in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin extended FPC jurisdicition over all wellhead sales of natural gas in interstate commerce.
* Expanding Community Rights Over Natural Resources: goal is to " improve the livelihood of rural poor through increased access to, and decision making on, natural resources ".
To restore the Fen to its previous state the decision was made to strip off the peat down to a level where it was undamaged and allow natural growth from that point.
Her successful avoidance of further pregnancies would have been a natural reaction to having been assigned the role of an imperial brood mare, bearing a child a year only to have it taken away from her, but the importance of preserving her youthful appearance was an important influence in her decision: " Children are the curse of a woman, for when they come, they drive away Beauty, which is the best gift of the gods ".
The Greek government chose to pay out of the " extraordinary natural disasters " fund, but was not obliged by the court's decision to return any lands ( the Court of Human Rights only awards monetary compensation ).
Boyd emphasized that this decision cycle is the central mechanism enabling adaptation ( apart from natural selection ) and is therefore critical to survival.
The decision to store in caverns was made in order to reduce costs ; the Department of Energy claims it is roughly 10 times cheaper to store oil below surface with the added advantages of no leaks and a constant natural churn of the oil due to a temperature gradient in the caverns.
Such a decision was a mistake, because regression toward the mean is not based on cause and effect, but rather on random error in a natural distribution around a mean.
Objections to Rawls ' theory include first, its inability to accommodate conscientious objections to the society's basic appreciation of justice or to emerging moral or ethical principles ( such as respect for the rights of the natural environment ) which are not yet part of it and second, the difficulty of predictably and consistently determining that a majority decision is just or unjust.
In his 2007 presidential Address to the American Economic Association, Akerlof proposed natural norms that decision makers have for how they should behave.
The decision to use a superheated, vacuum-isolated graphite core with natural uranium fuel allowed for massive power generation at only 1 / 4th the expense of heavy water reactors, which were more maintenance-intensive and required enriched uranium already earmarked for the Soviet nuclear weapons industry.
Hiphoppas shall thoroughly consider the protection and the development of life, over and before the individual decision to destroy or seek to alter its natural development.
" Piercing the corporate veil " refers to looking at the individual natural persons acting as agents involved in a corporate action or decision ; this may result in a legal decision in which the rights or duties of a corporation are treated as the rights or liabilities of that corporation's shareholders or directors.
Rates for gas and electric utilities can be used to balance the cost of ownership decision in an appliance purchase, as some geographic areas have a combination of higher natural gas prices and lower electric prices that may make electrical appliances a more effective choice.
Athos ' few natural resources and extreme isolation are probably the main reason why the founding fathers settled on the planet in the first place, a decision most citizens are apparently thankful for.
The loss of a home ( due to whatever reason, be it through accident or natural disaster, repossession, or in the case of children simply the decision to move on the part of the parents ) can be a valid cause of relocation.
While still only a young man of 17, he took the bold decision to emigrate to the West Coast of the United States, where he was for several years to work as a vine planter, an irrigation-ditch digger, a cowboy, a California homesteader ( after filing for American citizenship ), a mail-carrier for his neighbourhood, a prospector, and then, closer to his natural skills, as reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and later the San Francisco Chronicle.

decision and sleep
After the decision is made the remaining processes are put back to sleep, only to all wake up again to request access to the resource.
Anya and Xander have sex because she's convinced it will help her to get over him, and Buffy makes the decision that she wants to sleep with Parker.
The leader in the prey animal group usually is the decision maker for the herd deciding when and where to eat, when to go to the watering hole, what time of day to get there, when to rest and who will stand guard while the others sleep, ( Flight Instinct ).
Hence, that person is more likely to exercise the self-controlled decision to wake up, rather than to fall back in bed for a little more sleep.
Tim goes to sleep and Molly heads downstairs to deal with Katy being out all night, with her six-dollar and twenty-cent cab ride home, and with Steve's decision to become a priest.
According to an article in the Union-Leader newspaper, Flatley compared this decision to the one where he had to put to sleep his terminally ill German shepherd.

decision and schedule
Selig's decision to extend the traditional post-season schedule into November in an attempt to increase Nielsen ratings was met with widespread disdain, both inside and outside the baseball community.
He had added more programmers to a project falling behind schedule, a decision that he would later counter-intuitively conclude to have delayed the project even further.
The change was a practical decision, as the production was behind schedule and they needed to cut costs.
The decision was made, however, that the 2007 Prize would consider works staged during an eligibility period of January 1 to December 31, 2006 — thus bringing the schedule for the Drama Prize in line with those of the other prizes.
This limit was the reason for the decision to split the troop lift schedule into successive days.
Despite STV's explanation of expense, ITV plc were angered by the decision, as a recent schedule change had made The Bill central to their programming, and broadcast the programmes on ITV3 as well to ensure Scottish viewers could see the programmes.
The question of adding skating to the programme was discussed once more on 7 February 1910, with the decision being made to drop it from the schedule.
She said she'd already made the decision to take a break in mid-2001, but her schedule did not allow her to stop performing until September 2002, which was her last concert.
Following a meeting, held 12 September at midday, with prime minister Göran Persson and the leaders of the other political parties in the Riksdag, the decision was taken not to let the murder affect the schedule of the referendum.
However, already behind schedule, the decision was made to port the entire game to the Quake II engine, six months into development.
According to Michael Gleason, Brandon Tartikoff's decision to give an early pick-up to the Stephen J. Cannell series Hunter left no room on the NBC schedule for Remington Steele.
The new summer schedule commencing 28 April 2006 saw the complete withdrawal of Abu Dhabi as a hub following the decision on 13 September 2005 by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to withdraw from Gulf Air and establish its own airline, Etihad Airways.
On May 14, 2007 NBC announced the show was not on its fall 2007 schedule, but that a decision to cancel or renew it had not yet been made.
On that same day it was also announced that the A-Channel Morning show would be discontinued, although this decision was supposedly unrelated to the takeover by CTVglobemedia and the morning show has returned to the schedule of CIVI as of fall 2007.
Despite the complex and demanding work schedule, Occidental made the decision to continue operating the platform in phase 1 mode throughout this period and not to shut it down, as had been originally planned.
Finally all was ready, and on 15 April 1957-just two years and eight months after the decision to build the Distant Early Warning Line was made-Western Electric turned over to the Air Force on schedule a complete, operating radar system across the top of North America, with its own complete communications network.
Also, Pink is known for schedule changes which happen several times during the day, and the final decision brought at the last minute.
However, the other teams wished to continue a team in Toronto, and also needed a fourth team to balance the schedule due to the Quebec Bulldogs ' decision to sit out the season.
Despite the very limited schedule, the station was still losing money, leading to a decision in early 1955 from its board of trustees to close down the station.
He stated that there had been no falling-out between him and the rest of the group and mentioned that the group's busy schedule, which prevented him from spending time with his family, prompted this decision.
Jackson rescinded his decision the following fall and began to do a more limited schedule of games, teamed with Tim Brant and later Dan Fouts, almost exclusively sticking to venues on the West Coast, closer to his home in British Columbia.
I am thankful to the Lord that when we were making a decision about whether to move to Phoenix, on the very day we were talking and praying about it, I came to Ephesians 5: 28 in my regular schedule of daily Bible reading, and the Lord used this verse strongly in my own decision process: “ In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
Although citing NASA's unfair commercial practices as the primary reason for closing, other factors such as development schedule delays, cost growth, and a shrinking commercial launch market, are widely believed to have contributed to Beal's decision to cease operations.

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