#decision

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

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The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#decision #destroyed #france #home #hope

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#final #frigates #got #government #life

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#attempt #been #change #decision-making #desire

You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#expect #figure #go #life #make

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #alienation #another #any #been

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#any #anybody #buy #children #church

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#career #conscious #conscious decision #decision #did

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#decisions #late #make #men #often

My family has loved Minnesota and that was one of the big reasons we decided to come back. For me, family decisions were a big part to coming back to the Twins. ↗

— Jim Thome

#big #come #coming #decided #decisions