At home, the president and the Republican Congress have made equally fateful choices, which they also deeply believe in.

She was to have the power to make a fateful choice, on which the future of all the worlds depended.

He makes a fateful choice to assist a hapless girl early in the story.

Sometimes patients opt for "watchful waiting" or close monitoring to see how the cancer will progress before making a fateful choice.

Gordon had decided, had in these minutes of strain made his fateful choice.

Or again, in California two branches of a tribe were offered a fateful choice.

Earlier this month, the Senate was faced with a fateful choice.

That was a reference to a fateful choice made at the beginning of modern Israel's existence.

The warning against dictatorship is meant to avert that fateful choice, to seek solutions through more democracy, not less.

Joining the antiterrorist coalition may prove to be a fateful choice, one that opens onto a future of more difficult choices.