The phrase "a decision constituted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a decision that has been formally established or made.
Example: "The committee's meeting resulted in a decision constituted by a majority vote."
Alternatives: "a decision made" or "a decision established".
It is certain: a decision constitutes the beginning in every case.
Juries, for instance, are sometimes told to consider only whether discrimination was deliberate and willful (which may leave less room to consider unconscious biases), or whether an H.R. decision constituted discrimination or not (which leaves less room for considering situations in which discrimination was one factor, if not the only one).
The Air Transport Association, which represents the airline industry in Washington, said that the F.A.A.'s decision constituted a new rule.
That decision constituted a major victory for the nation's anti-nuclear movement and dealt a blow to the central government and utility firms, which are hoping to bring more reactors back online.
Concluding that the Look Tin Sing decision constituted a controlling precedent in the Ninth Circuit, Judge Morrow ruled that subject to the jurisdiction thereof referred to being subject to U.S. law (the first of the two proposed interpretations).
Sim, now a 37-year-old mother with a young daughter, recounted how she went by herself to a makeshift clinic by a train station in Bucheon, west of Seoul, not even realizing at the time her decision constituted a crime in South Korea.
The panel, chaired by ethicist James Childress of the University of Virginia, found that these tests are not inherently unethical: Improving the science behind a regulatory decision "constitutes a societal benefit that can justify the conduct of a human dosing study," the report says.
If an advising decision constitutes a fiduciary act, the advisor must comply by ERISA duties of prudence and loyalty.
Malik Saeed Hassan, a retired judge of the Lahore High Court, a venerable figure who began practicing law in the late 1950s, told me that the decision constituted "the first victory over military authority in 60 years".
Many also thought that the decision constituted very shabby treatment of Messerer, who had done more than anyone to establish the troupe's artistic credentials and was now, it seemed, going to have to play second fiddle.
