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The phrase "a problematic decision to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decision that is considered to have issues or complications associated with it.
Example: "The committee faced a problematic decision to cut funding for the arts program, which many believed was essential for community engagement."
Alternatives: "a difficult choice to" or "a controversial decision to".
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The GSA's failure to investigate these constitutional concerns led it to a problematic decision to affirm that the government could continue to lease the Old Post Office Building to the president's company, the inspector general concluded.
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The directors made the potentially problematic decision to have Ms. Summitt's son, Tyler, narrate the film and interview his mother.
This overlapping structure of governments, with both appointed and elected officials, makes it possible for problematic decisions to slip through the cracks and makes it easy to shift blame.
Niggli says he is "reaching out" to Kolobkov because "we think that whilst the letter is close to meeting the requirements of the roadmap, there might still be issues". The Swiss warns Kolobkov that "a negative recommendation by the CRC will be problematic for a decision to then be taken by the executive committee accepting that the letter meets the requirements of the road map.
That remains a highly problematic decision, but the more muted and centrist tone of the term that just ended has made me less persuaded that the court is on a collision course with mainstream public opinion.
In the U.S., we — the voters — elect our presidents using a potentially problematic decision rule: we largely decide who will be president based on the election-year economy (1, 2, 3).
"This is obviously a very problematic decision for the climate and good news for the oil industry," says William Todts, head of the Brussels-based clean transport lobbying group T&E.
These are unclear because we do not know the impact of missing symptoms data, and the reports contained unclear definitions for secondary complications of influenza and a seemingly problematic decision tool for the alternative designation of events as either complications or harms, which we called 'compliharms' in our Cochrane review.
As all projects at AETMIS, each of the ones studied began with a request presented to the Agency, in response to a problematic situation that calls for a decision to be made, and eventually an action to be taken.
Still, the problematic decisions continue to leave us worried about upcoming terms, where more decisions about fundamental rights await.
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