Sentence examples for tend to decide from inspiring English sources

In fact, when I'm planning a dinner party I tend to decide on the dessert first.

Do they embrace him as a means of appealing to the conservative voters who tend to decide Republican primaries?

I write a column for the News of the World, read by the type of people who tend to decide British elections.

"He does tend to decide the mood of the room, which, frankly, must feel like a bit of a strain for him," Tilda Swinton told me in an e-mail.

Authorizers are more ideological and tend to decide in broad terms how much money the government should spend; appropriators decide specifically how the money will be given out, and they tend to be pragmatic insiders.

And polling suggests that the president's yearlong effort to reclaim the political center has so far yielded little in the way of additional support from the moderates and independents who tend to decide presidential elections.

Courts also have tended to decide that when doctors erred, it was without malice.

Of course, in reality the exhibition tends to decide the winner.

But they should not bank on this, says Alpesh Shah of the Boston Consulting Group: in more mature markets consumers have tended to decide how much they want to spend on mobile services, then stick to that figure.

When workers ask themselves whether the union is worth its membership dues, they are tending to decide that the answer is no.As if all this were not bad enough, the unions have remained stubbornly (and often comically) old-fashioned.

Pick: Packers Patriots (1-2) at Bills (2-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. Line: Patriots by 5 In a league filled with athletes that choose to not refer to their team's placekickers as football players, the oft-maligned position tends to decide the outcome of a great number of games.