The phrase "a decisive ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant basis or reason for making a decision or forming an opinion.
Example: "The evidence presented in the report provided a decisive ground for the committee's recommendation."
Alternatives: "a crucial basis" or "a determining factor."
The retaking of the Sunni city of Tikrit in March was a glaring example of how decisive ground forces are in this asymmetric war.
And Russia's Federal Securities Commission has lost what may prove decisive ground in its struggle to keep the stockmarket free from domination by a clique of big banks.All this suggests there will be one more loser a little further down the line, though he may not know it yet: the small investor, whose interests the Federal Securities Commission has been trying hard to protect.
Then in June, the government had won one of its few decisive ground battles of the war, thanks to Hezbollah, whose fighters had stormed al-Qusayr, a rebel-held town on the plain through which the rebels had reinforced and re-supplied their fighters in Homs.
Though these issues justify continuing moral concern, they do not at this time provide decisive grounds for substantially curbing or eliminating for-profit enterprise in health care.
Moreover, it is the presence of this self-governing reason in each person that Kant thought offered decisive grounds for viewing each as possessed of equal worth and deserving of equal respect.
Western armed forces demonstrated their superiority clearly during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 when, after the extensive use of airpower, U.S. ground forces gained a decisive victory over Iraq within 100 hours.
The Iraqi leader also believed that the United States would not be willing to lose many troops in action, and therefore sought to draw Coalition ground troops into a decisive battle.
On the other hand, Marines delight in telling how Marine Gen. Holland "Howling Mad" Smith, put in charge of all U.S. ground forces at a decisive World War II battle, immediately fired the top Army general.
Never mind that a decisive response to the climate crisis, grounded in big investments in renewables, efficiency, and public transit, could well have created enough jobs to undercut the discredited logic of economic austerity.
