The phrase "a basic decision" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a fundamental or straightforward choice that needs to be made.
Example: "Before we proceed with the project, we need to make a basic decision about our budget."
Alternatives: "a fundamental choice" or "a simple decision."
Mr. Hiltermann said: "The Kurds have to make a basic decision -- to go with the Americans or not.
But Dennis Ross, who was President Bill Clinton's special Middle East negotiator, said he believed that officials "still have not really made a basic decision on what they're going to do or even what the objective is".
The pioneer automobile manufacturer not only had to solve the technical and financial problems of getting into production but also had to make a basic decision about what to produce.
Moral choices lie not only with those who, like Carl Wilkens, risk death to help others, but also with the millions of ordinary people who are spared the risks but still face a basic decision: Do we try to save lives, or do we simply turn away?
That it has taken so long for the church to reach such a basic decision is shameful, as is people celebrating the appointment of women bishops as though they had agreed a peace deal in Gaza, gratuitously pouring champagne when they could have used that moment of press coverage to highlight a real issue.
Instead of just creating a basic decision tree (this set of answers leads to this quiz result), the company's actually building out models that show how each question and answer is related to overall satisfaction.
Here is a basic decision-tree analysis that will allow you to deconstruct the problem into components, weigh the relative significance of the parts, assign possibilities to them and reach a conclusion.
The basic decision was to propose a meeting with Mr. Arafat if General Zinni thought conditions were ripe.
Instead, the move was explained as a basic programming decision made by the network's top entertainment executive, Robert Greenblatt.
The basic decision to use it was a mistake, I think.
Basic decision like the site chosen for a building and the technical standard of a building will have considerable impact on the energy consumption during its life cycle.
