The phrase "a basic choice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a simple or fundamental option among alternatives.
Example: "When it comes to breakfast, a basic choice is cereal and milk."
Alternatives: "a simple option" or "a fundamental selection".
With the 18th Amendment, the prohibitionists took away the right to make a basic choice.
"This campaign will deal with many complicated issues," Romney said, "but there is a basic choice before us".
Given a fixed budget, advertisers face a basic choice: they can have their message seen or heard by many people fewer times, or by fewer people many times.
Topic for Discussion: "Contracting within the Firm" Abstract: Ever since Coase, transaction cost economics has posed a basic choice for how to organize production – firms or markets.
In Their Own Words VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Remarks at a convention of the New Jersey State A.F.L.-C.I.O. held yesterday in Atlantic City, N.J.: "Now we face a basic choice.
In the end, governments and companies have a basic choice: One, move very quickly with large-scale investment in deep transitions across all sectors of the economy, investing trillions to reduce energy costs, improve health, and avoid many other risks.
We've simplified it down to a very simple choice here, but it's a very basic choice out there in the real world.
Oatmeal shampoo is a good basic choice for most dogs.
But the decision ultimately will be decided by a much more basic choice that was presented in the most important recent supreme court case pitting constitutional method against technological change.
The productivity of the expression system is influenced by many parameters, and besides the basic choice of an available expression system, these parameters can be tuned by the insertion or deletion of genetic modules.
"Their basic choice is to transport a person to the emergency room or not.
