Example sentences of "decision made by the " in BNC.

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1 The decision made by the UK Cross-Country Commission to adopt the new date of March 9 sparked controversy among athletes and officials , since it would leave only two weeks for selected athletes to prepare for the World Championships in Antwerp .
2 Ships sailing to India which were not directly owned or managed by the Company were considered to be permanently chartered to the Company , but the value of the charter to the vessel 's owners and officers was determined by the port to which it was sent , and that was a decision made by the Company .
3 A single voice , if it comes from somebody sufficiently powerful , can overturn the consensus arrived at by the rest ( Sedgwick wryly ends his article by saying that the child 's name was put on the ‘ register ’ , the doctor having used his influence to overturn the decision made by the rest ) .
4 The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice .
5 Another powerful financial weapon is the annual decision made by the government on the amount of grant to be given to local authorities to aid current expenditure .
6 Proprietors the House of Lords reversed a decision made by the Lord Chancellor , Lord Cottenham , when the latter had affirmed decrees by the Vice-Chancellor in relation to a company in which the Lord Chancellor held some shares .
7 Perhaps it is churlish of me , after the kind remarks of the Minister , to venture to comment on what he has just said , but at the risk of being tiresome , may I point out that what I said before was that it does not follow that a decision made by the Home Secretary corresponds with the advice that he receives from the chief inspector .
8 " It was a political decision made by the government and not by the Federation , " Bland said .
9 In practical terms , the school librarian or teacher may not have the authority to make a final decision on the purchase of a microcomputer but it is important that s/he has some knowledge of what microcomputers can do and what criteria should be used for selection , so that the decision made by the headteacher may be influenced by the person who will ultimately control and use the microcomputer .
10 In practice , too many governing bodies are merely ‘ rubber stamps ’ to decisions made by the headteacher and/ or a group of governors with the headteacher in the guise of ‘ subcommittees ’ .
11 They should be fully involved in the decisions made by the governing body .
12 Mikos , In his study of the League of Nations ' actions in Danzig , attempted to apportion blame by counting up the number of important decisions made by the various High Commissioners .
13 Mr McCallum continued that the decisions made by the Social Work Department were made on the basis of confidential information , and should that department reply to the Action Committee , he said , they might divulge information which should nut be revealed at that time .
14 Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) .
15 It follows that the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the tariff for each of these appellants should be quashed , and the decisions reconsidered in accordance with the procedure to which I have referred .
16 On the whole , Acts , despite their legal precision , are fairly loose guides when it comes actually to setting up the services they authorize , and the decisions made by the administrators of services at central or local level are of great importance in shaping the provision .
17 There are specialist commercial organisations who will , in exchange for an annual subscription , provide a service listing all planning applications and decisions made by the majority of local planning authorities .
18 Nor is this unimportant compared to the ‘ major ’ policy decisions made by the Cabinet or an assembly .
19 In the agreement Aristide had agreed to respect decisions made by the Haitian parliament since Sept. 30 ( the date on which the coup ousted him ) , one of which included the appointment of Cédras as army commander for a three-year period .
20 In late April Alfredo César the President of the National Assembly and ( like Godoy ) an open opponent of Lacayo , had announced that he was planning to introduce a bill to " review " thousands of land rights decisions made by the former Sandinista government .
21 Contributing to decisions made by the Divisional Officer on matters relating to the section 's specialism .
22 All policy decisions made by the next Labour government will be vetted by a Minister of Environmental Protection .
23 The impact on the care and future lives of children from the decisions made by the hearings will also be assessed .
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