It was a fateful decision, one which was to break the Government.

那是一项重大的决定，一个将使政府垮台的决定。

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Unable to drink from water trapped by tree leaves, she would have had to venture down to the lake to drink. This would have proved to be a fateful decision.

虽然她幸免不死，但她的攀爬能力遭到严重损害，从此无法再喝树叶上所聚集的水了，她被迫冒险去湖边喝水，这也注定了她劫数难逃。

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Legend has it that after buying a Ferrari and being dissatisfied by the build quality that Lamborghini took the fateful decision to start building his own cars.

传说它后买法拉利和被不满所建立的质量兰博·基尼代为决定命运的决定，开始建立自己的汽车。

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But it was a fateful decision for the Maccabees with dreadful consequences for religious freedom.

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After his mother died, his father made what would be a fateful decision, sending him to live with an aunt.

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In essence, Lichtenstein claims bad legal advice caused him to put Extended Stay in bankruptcy, a fateful decision that triggered the so-called bad boy provision in the mortgage documents.

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