fateful decision

collocation in English

meaningsoffatefulanddecision

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fateful
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfeɪt.fəl/us
/ˈfeɪt.fəl/
having an important and usually negative effect on ...
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decision
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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(Definition offatefulanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Onefatefuldecisionwas made in the light of this perspective, and also in fulfillment of a project of sovereignty assertion by military expansion.
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It is afatefuldecisionthat affects the free world.
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We have heard a good deal of the difficulties and recriminations that flowed from thefatefuldecisionof the area health authority.
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A mostfatefuldecisionhad to be taken, and the choice was one of peculiar difficulty.
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We are faced with the most difficult and possibly the mostfatefuldecisionthat has ever confronted us.
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We should bear in mind the importance of thatfatefuldecision.
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They took that day afatefuldecision: to pay relief in supplementation of wages to able-bodied men who were in full-time employment.
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Is one's whole political career at an end in one day'sfatefuldecision, and will one have to find a new occupation in life?
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Finally, there was thefatefuldecisionto allow the concession of limited association after the hunger strike.
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There is still more than a year before thefatefuldecisionis to be made, and before there will be any further damaging rundown of the hospital.
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Many difficulties sprang from thatfatefuldecision.
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Such circumstances tend to force afatefuldecisionfor countless youngsters.
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Thus, shortly after he resumed his command, he made the potentiallyfatefuldecisionto defend the city street by street if necessary.
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He made thefatefuldecisionto scatter the convoy, with disastrous results.
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Rodecker makes afatefuldecisionto go way off procedure and split the team.
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In high school she made afatefuldecisionto give up drawing for writing.
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When the fateful decisions had to be taken, his resolve was never in doubt.
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This situation must be clarified before fateful decisions are taken.
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We shall have to make increasingly fateful decisions about peace and war on a global scale.
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