The phrase "a certain course of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific path, direction, or method that is somewhat vague or unspecified.
Example: "The committee decided to pursue a certain course of action to address the community's concerns."
Alternatives: "a specific path of" or "a particular direction of".
Dissuading Mr. Trump from a certain course of action typically requires advisers to make the argument repeatedly, officials have said.
This is what she means by "magical thinking": the primitive belief that if you take a certain course of action, the desired consequence will inevitably follow.
("I've just never experienced anything like this," Captain William Hocter, a Navy psychiatrist testified. "It was clear to me that they had made up their mind on a certain course of actions and my recommendations didn't really matter").
In an analysis of more than 160 decisions made by businesses over the years, management scholar Paul Nutt found that 71% of them had been framed in terms of whether or not an organization or a person should take a certain course of action.
For if I have the right to demand a certain course of treatment, even if it is fatal, then the refusal to grant this right must come to seem immoral, and may come to be seen as something that should be illegal as well.
It just seems to me that when you're dealing with something that is a pathology, that you can't act with regard to this person unless people who are competent can indicate to you that a certain course of action is appropriate.
For example, if you want to ask whether they would accept a certain course in fulfillment of a requirement, if they question it prior to you matriculating, having the evidence will make things much easier.
High achievers are generally assigned to 'honors' sections of a certain course; low achievers attend 'remedial' sections (Slavin, 1990; Gamoran, Nystrand, Berends and LePorc, 1995).
In a plebiscite, voters are asked not to choose between alternate regimes or proposals but to confirm or reject the legitimacy of a certain form of government or course of action.
Based on this idea, we first find a best protein-complex core for each potential attachment in the set P R (P R = V − P A ) expressed in a certain time course of the molecular cycle.
At a certain point, of course, the answer to these calculations don't matter.
