But I've always decided not to, in the end.
"We've always decided to stay with the present configuration," said Lynn Gorey, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in South Orangetown's schools.
The national leaders claim democratic primacy from their domestic general elections and have always decided between them who should head the commission.
Pepco, the utility serving the area around Washington, has repeatedly studied the idea of burying more power lines, and the company and its regulators have always decided that the cost outweighed the benefit.
Downing Street had always decided it would adopt a low profile in the run-up to the Polish election last Sunday that resulted in the election of the Tories' sister party, the Law and Justice party.
Later on Monday, when President Jalal Talabani of Iraq told Mr. Panetta that there are not insurgent attacks in his native Kurdistan like there are in Baghdad, Mr. Panetta chortled good-naturedly, "I'm sure that they've always decided that you're not worth shooting".
Of course there are many things that I would change about the novel – there is not a paragraph in the copy that I read from that isn't heavily marked – but at the various opportunities to edit the book, I've always decided not to.
Where he does follow Taylor, however, is in his obsession with Germany, which, he says repeatedly through the book, was and is the crucible in which Europe's fate has always been decided.
Mr Hancock, who has always denied the claims, has decided to stand as an independent and still has close ties locally with his former party.
