Sentence examples for said decided that from inspiring English sources

Linnaeus, Dr. Moran said, decided that plants enjoy sex.

Agency officials, the people briefed on the matter said, decided that a fraud injunction in this case would be redundant.

The G.O.P., Emanuel said, decided that opposing the stimulus "was definitional, and I will make an argument to you, both on political and economic grounds: they will lose.

The Bush Administration, Bellinger said, decided that Iraq's oil would be used only for the benefit of the Iraqi people.

Mr. Schwartz said decided that Mr. Spano would keep a low public profile and privately urge a resolution, "not grandstand and look for an Oscar nomination".

The airlines, he said, "decided that rather than investing in technology to work this out, we'll have you go over to a ticket agent because it's no skin off our nose if you stand in line.

Enough is enough, the American people could say, deciding that gun ownership is a right that comes with responsibilities.

"What can I tell you?" he said, deciding that his point was best left unspoken.

"I am getting better at trying things, but I am still careful," Ms. Moriarty said, deciding that it had been a mistake to accept the yogurt ball.

He taught himself to play without "ever practicing systematically", he said, deciding that "love is a better teacher than a sense of duty".

"Cold war readers," Caleb Crain says, "decided that the message" of "Billy Budd" was "authority," while "formalist readers... were so pleased with their knowing identification of Melville's slipperiness that they decided that the slipperiness was the message".