21.   Authorities decided to allow a grand jury to decide whether the man who shot Edwards should be prosecuted.

22.   Authorities have decided to relegate the herd to a fenced tract of federal and state lands north of Corolla.

23.   Bowling is prepared for whatever punishment authorities decide to hand out.

24.   According to Hermann Ziegenaus, the president of the Bavarian criminal investigations office, the authorities had decided that the time had come to stop the deal.

25.   After Schneider recently refused for a second time to give a DNA sample, authorities decided to take it by force.

26.   British authorities decided years ago not to prosecute her.

27.   Bruguiere visited Hungary Wednesday after the authorities there decided to open the Communist secret service files on Carlos to French investigators.

28.   But if the authorities decide to dispose of the next rotting whale carcass by blowing it up with dynamite, save me a spot on the beach.

29.   But since then, authorities have apparently decided that the tape is authentic.

30.   But realizing that soaring foreign debt had helped bring down other Asian economies, the Beijing authorities decided that the loosely regulated trusts represented a weak spot.