0 the ability to make good decisions and to act quickly and calmly in a difficult situation or an emergency: --
1 the ability to make good decisions and to act quickly in a difficult situation --
They would not have the presence of mind to follow the example of my constituent, who tells me that he recorded the account of the conversation in police officer's fashion.
What is better than the presence of mind in a railway accident.
He said that the bus driver had the presence of mind to get the people off the bus.
It will take several years of training and the development of their own judgment and presence of mind before they can.
I should like to congratulate them on the coolness and courage they showed and their presence of mind all through these operations.
Fortunately, the bus driver had the presence of mind to get his passengers off the bus and no one was injured.
He said that he would describe subsidiarity as a "presence of mind"on the basis that it"cannot be defined".
The 1998 budget has been undertaken with great presence of mind.
