The phrase "altogether deciding" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where you want to emphasize a complete or total decision-making process.
Example: "After much deliberation, we are altogether deciding to move forward with the project."
Alternatives: "completely deciding" or "fully deciding".
So he gets out of the arms business altogether, deciding to right wrongs rather than help create more of them, indirectly or not.
Johnny Depp is watching his star tarnish in the wake of domestic violence allegations (seriously not cool or cute), and Shia LaBeouf has lost his altogether, deciding he "is not famous anymore" and going off the rails with violence and booze, and so has Chris Brown, who one could argue is now better known for assaulting Rihanna than for his music.
Later, the company abandoned plans to reboot "All My Children" altogether and decided to concentrate on "One Life to Live" because a greater number of that show's stars and writers had signed on to participate.
Altogether, Parsons decided, there were forty-two diseases diseases of alcoholic origin.
He skipped college altogether, having decided, as a kid in Baton Rouge, that he wanted to be a movie director.
Beretta, which initially threatened to abandon Maryland altogether, ultimately decided to keep its factory in Accokeek, as well as the 300 workers there, but said it would add any new jobs elsewhere.
(Incidentally, Adams, who said two years ago that he was ready to give up on opera altogether, has decided to return to the fray, with a work about the atom bomb and the Cold War. Godspeed).
Spanish conquistadors viewed it as a sacrilegious event but instead of extinguishing it altogether, they decided to combine it with Catholic practice so it would correspond with All Saints Day (1 November) and All Souls' Day (2 November).
There are too many investors who claim that they just don't understand financials and instead of avoiding this sector altogether we decided to pull back the curtain and explain it.
Altogether, we decided to work furtheron with the 1% profiles and the resulting networks.
DealBook Will News Corp. Be Forced to Give Up BSkyB Altogether? | After deciding to abandon its $12 billion bid to take full ownership of British Sky Broadcasting, the News Corporation could now be at risk of losing the stake in the British broadcaster that it already owns as regulators begin an examination of BSkyB's owners and directors to determine whether they are "fit and proper".
