The phrase "a lasting decision" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a decision that is intended to have a long-term impact or permanence.
Example: "After much deliberation, we finally reached a lasting decision regarding the future of the project."
Alternatives: "a permanent decision" or "an enduring decision".
Using data to drive decision gives you significantly higher chances of making good, long lasting decision over non data-driven approach.
Some veterans of the Clinton White House have advised their friends in the West Wing to take a breath and not make lasting decisions in the immediate aftermath of the election, when it might be tempting to overreact.
The conference, which opened in the cool of the Swiss Alps on Wednesday morning, brings all the main players to the table – including representatives from Cyprus' guarantor powers, Greece, Turkey and Britain – in what is being billed as an arena "for big and lasting decisions".
"The stage is set for big and lasting decisions," wrote the Cyprus Mail in an editorial crystallising what is at stake.
Critics complained that the state's political leaders merely delayed Minnesota's financial troubles rather than making hard, lasting decisions about whether to raise taxes or to cut services.
However, the audience needs to be brought inside the corporate board rooms and high up government offices where lasting decisions are made about the rain forest's future and the plight of the manatee.
"We look forward to a lasting impact for these decisions, and for our firm to operate in a fully positive, productive, client-oriented environment".
Instead of a single sentence announcing the tie, she suggested, a five-justice majority would have issued a precedent-setting decision dealing a lasting setback to Mr. Obama and the immigrants he had tried to protect.
When he backed Mr Balladur for the presidency in 1995, the decision caused a lasting rift with Mr Chirac, the successful candidate.
The decision has a lasting impact on our ability to have a comfortable retirement, and, less obviously, it shapes our pre-retirement behavior long in advance of retirement itself". -- Save More.
