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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a striking decision" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a decision that is remarkable, impressive, or noteworthy in some way.
Example: "The board made a striking decision to implement a four-day workweek, which surprised many employees."
Alternatives: "an impressive decision" or "a remarkable decision".
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It was a striking decision; in other countries, drug abuse has remained primarily a matter for law-enforcement agencies.
His is a striking decision, given this government's aversion to holding inquiries relating to Unesco world heritage sites in Liverpool and London.
"That was also the feeling of, the Government of the United States and of President Nixon, who decided to express himself in a striking decision to be present at the dinner at the Waldorf‐Astoria.
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All of this is background to Clinton's striking decision to remind us, via an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, of The Atlantic, that she is more hawkish than Obama.
Finally, perhaps the most striking decision of all: the imposition of a kind of internal martial law, whereby "all normal party meetings at CLP and branch level shall be suspended until the completion of the leadership election".
In her memoir, Manguso makes the striking decision never to quote the diary itself.
Along these same lines, although the report beat up the West Virginia judiciary pretty thoroughly, it did not consider what was surely the most striking decision there this year.
Far from symbolic was Tsipras's other striking decision, to make up for Syriza's two-seat failure (149 out of 300) to win an outright majority in parliament by cutting a deal with the rightwing Independent Greeks party (13 seats) which makes the explicit connection between crippling, Brussels-imposed austerity and the massacre at Kaisariani.
For the Justice Department litigators, it was a striking victory: the decision effectively shut off the habeas route out of Guantánamo.
The library in Maunula, a northern Helsinki suburb, has a doorway that leads directly to a supermarket – a striking and functional decision which, along with its adult education centre and youth services section, was partly down to the fact that it was designed with input from locals.
Last month in Utah, a local judge made the no-less-striking decision to let a homeowner rip up his mortgage and walk away debt-free.
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