The phrase "a decisive stand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a firm or resolute position taken on an issue or decision.
Example: "The committee took a decisive stand on the new policy, ensuring that all members were in agreement before moving forward."
Alternatives: "a firm position" or "a strong stance".
At the same time it could have a wider impact, allowing Brazil to take a decisive stand on human rights regionally and internationally.
Mr. Noda's popularity ratings are in the low 20s, hurt by his failure to break through the parliamentary gridlock, to stimulate the economy and, more recently, to take a decisive stand on Japan's nuclear energy policy.
It is also a sorry fact of which Arabs are only too aware that politics in Washington limits the ability of even the best-intentioned president to take a decisive stand on issues involving Israel.
BEN WALTZER -- This no-nonsense jazz pianist in the Ellington and Monk vein (who has occasionally written for Arts & Leisure) gets a big, ringing sound out of the extreme registers of the instrument; he also takes a decisive stand against the ultra-sensitive, lush-harmony tendency of so many young jazz composers.
A decisive stand or choice can give the appearance of resolution, of somehow rendering the world a little more predictable or accessible.
Despite that, the EU, due to its idiosyncrasy and its policy in education based on principles of subsidiarity, proportionality and absolute respect of national competences, has never adopted a decisive stand to favour education.
But last week, at least for a brief time, it appeared to some that Komen was taking a newly decisive stand against human embryonic stem cells by pulling cancer research funds from organizations that also conduct research on the ES cells.
The answers will be very particular, based partly on an actual weighing of consequences of what a given employee can feasibly accomplish from within, versus the effects of taking a more decisive stand, either quietly or publicly.
He and Jos Buttler shared a decisive unbroken stand of 32 to seal a thrilling victory, Michael Lumb and Alex Hales having made 50 and 42 respectively at the top of the order.
Esarey argued that Jennings "took no decisive stand" on the important issues and dismissed his importance and impact on Indiana, saying the legislature and its leading men set the tone of the era.
It is worth keeping in mind — indeed, it is worth harping on — that our forty-third President holds office only because a judicial order stifled the vote count in a decisive state, thereby letting stand a preliminary total that was incomplete, distorted by irregularities, at odds with the will of the national electorate, and almost certainly wrong in its outcome.
