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The decides
verb
To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
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"Where a primary school, for example, becomes its own admission authority (ie becomes an academy) and the decides to give priority to all siblings whether living in or out of the catchment, there is a danger that first-born or children new to the area will not gain a place at the school, their catchment school, nor will they have priority for any other catchment-area school," she wrote.
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What was the deciding factor?
"That was really the deciding factor.
The deciding match is at Old Trafford tomorrow.
Pragmatism was likely the deciding factor.
But are either the deciding factors?
"Food is the deciding factor.
This is the deciding issue.
"The serve will be the deciding factor.
E3 will be the deciding factor.
Money is often the deciding factor.
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