shall vs will

Definitions

noun

1. a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
2. the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
3. a fixed and persistent intent or purpose

verb

1. determine by choice
2. decree or ordain
3. leave or give by will after one's death

Examples

The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.

These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country.

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