make up one's mind
Example Sentences
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You may see a failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty.
From Time Magazine Archive
My advice was simply to make up one's mind what to read, and then read it.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
When Rendalen was in the humor, he would play by the hour together, just as though no one were in the room; one might make up one's mind to go away at once.
From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
But to make up one's mind to do a thing, and to carry out one's good intentions are two very different matters.
From The Girl from Arizona by Nina Rhoades
It was easy, however, to make up one's mind about what not to do, but mighty hard to discover the right kind of thing to do.
From The Soul of a Child by Edwin Björkman
