1.   A local authority can Decide whether a particular item of expenditure should be cut.

2.   Despite all our efforts to save the school, the authorities decided to close it.

3.   It evidently included an assertion that the local authority had wrongly Decided that he was intentionally homeless.

4.   The authorities Decided not to allow boating on the lake.

5.   The authorities have Decided to relieve the professor of his post at the university until further notice, after complaints were made by one of his female students.

6.   The local authority Decided that the present housing conditions constituted a risk for the mother and baby.

7.   The principal officers of the local authority are those which the authority Decides to appoint.

8.   The State authorities have Decided to proceed against the big tobacco companies.

9.   How do planning authorities actually decide planning applications?

10.   The authorities had earlier decided to kill other elephants as part of a major culling programme provoked by the drought.