The phrase "a certain course of action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific method or approach that one might take in a situation.
Example: "After much deliberation, we decided to pursue a certain course of action to address the issue at hand."
Alternatives: "a specific approach" or "a particular method."
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.
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.
Capability is usually defined as the ability to execute a certain course of action (Scheffran et al. 2012).
Situations in which a member of a population P is willing to engage in a certain course of action provided that a large enough portion of P engages in some appropriate behavior are typical problems of collective action.
If she chooses in one fashion, then a certain course of action will come to fruition; if she chooses in another, then another course of action will come to fruition (1998, p. 120).
In choosing "resolutely"—that is, in commiting myself to a certain course of action, a certain way of being in the world—I have given myself the rule that belongs to the role I come to adopt.
("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").
Unlike surveys, Decision Lens takes the raw business data and allows decision makers to evaluate the impact of certain courses of action given a set of mapped decision blueprints.
But he said that the IEA's reports were not predictions of the future, instead they were a guide to inform policy makers, shareholders and industry of the consequences of certain courses of action.
In 2006, Father Escudero made his report to the cardinal, stating that he believed "the accusers to be credible and suggesting certain courses of action".
