Sentence examples for cannot decide for yourself from inspiring English sources
Then there's the living will, a set of instructions detailing medical or life-sustaining treatment in case you are incapacitated and cannot decide for yourself.
But when she is acting as a representative of the commission, "she cannot decide for herself".
For children, who cannot decide for themselves, parents are given the right to refuse or consent to medical treatment.
The answer was nothing short of shocking: "We cannot decide for other countries what is appropriate or not," he said.
Those who are sitting in closed rooms cannot decide for the Islamic nation and cannot allow this historical enemy to exist in the heart of the Islamic world.
"But I think he is a man who has too many other concerns with the community, so that perhaps he cannot decide for himself what to do.
It seems a contradiction that the disability rights movement campaigns for autonomy in every other area of life except this one, where it claims that dying disabled people are vulnerable and cannot decide for themselves.
We always need to remember a company is made of people and you cannot decide for people what they are going to do, so if they leave there is nothing you can do".
In the tragic Terri Schiavo case and similar cases where patients cannot decide for themselves, the question becomes this: Should the wishes of the parents or the spouses be honored?
The ECHR awarded damages to two Witnesses whose privacy had been violated.Further west, a consensus is emerging that people of more-or-less sound mind can, if they so choose, put their lives at risk by refusing certain treatments; but they cannot impose that risk on dependants who for one reason or another cannot decide for themselves.
