Sentence examples for have basically decided from inspiring English sources

"The Democrats have basically decided to ration prescription drugs," said Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma, the assistant Republican leader.

And it makes sense on its own terms, since if you've decided that social mobility will be achieved by intervening at the parental level with the under-threes, you have basically decided this: if only everybody would parent (there's really no other verb for it) the way the richest parent, then everybody would have the same chances as currently only the richest enjoy.

With General Manager Steve Phillips's declaration that he will no longer pursue a trade for Sheffield with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Mets have basically decided they will begin defense of their National League pennant with the team that occupies their spring camp in Port St .Lucie on this day.

"We have basically decided to stir up a base and that's a bad decision for the country.

He formally announced his break from music in Tokyo in 1977, saying, "we have basically decided, without any great decision, to be with our baby as much as we can until we feel we can take time off to indulge ourselves in creating things outside of the family".

Anish had basically decided not to trade anything in his battered personal portfolio, heavy in technology.

We've basically decided that no actor's training is complete until they properly learn to be able to say the word, 'sheeeeeeeee-it.'".

An executive with Wachovia, one of the country's biggest and most aggressive lenders, said during a conference call in January 2008 that the bank was bewildered by customers who had "the capacity to pay, but have basically just decided not to".

"The business and philanthropic communities had basically just decided to go ahead in spite of government".

Jens Weidmann, its president, lamented on April 24th that the tax "has basically been decided" but the "side effects could be considerable".

We have basically codified wasteful overstaffing".