The phrase "a false choice of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations where options presented are misleading or limited, suggesting that there are more alternatives than those offered.
Example: "The debate presented a false choice of either supporting the new policy or facing economic collapse, ignoring other viable solutions."
Alternatives: "a misleading dichotomy of" or "a deceptive choice of".
It's a false choice, of course.
THE polarized rhetoric of the 2012 election cycle presents voters with a false choice of whether the government can create jobs or should just get out of the way.
The Western problematic of death – where the essential self is disembodied spirit -- poses a false choice of continuity, even eternity, in the realm of the spirit, versus the reductive materialist concept of death as the complete ending of the story of the material, embodied self.
Without knowing or understanding what causes this performance differential, companies are forced into a false choice of actions that don't guarantee superior performance.
Think twice about offering a false choice of procedures like cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when someone is actually dying and chances of recovery are minuscule.
People are rejecting a false choice of globalization - that they must choose to give up local tongues to monolingually speak a global one.
In an interview with an alt-right YouTuber in May, a Scottish Dawn spokesperson doesn't leap at the chance to back independence when asked, saying the referendum offered a "false choice on both sides of the divide".
"I think that's a false choice, to say to the people of New York State you either have to borrow more or give up democratic control of your city," she said in an interview.
Back in Washington, some Democrats accused Mr. Bush of offering Americans a false choice: reauthorization of the law without any changes, or vulnerability to terrorism.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the sector from the margins to the mainstream to rid ourselves of a false choice between equity of access and excellence.
Again, that framing presents a false choice: about 45 percent of health care spending in the United States is already from the public sector, and it's widely recognized that health care is simply not a typical market good.
