The phrase "and thus decided" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a conclusion or decision that follows logically from previous statements or reasoning.
Example: "After reviewing all the evidence presented, the committee deliberated for hours and thus decided to approve the proposal."
Alternatives: "and therefore concluded" or "and consequently resolved".
"Everyone had a high degree of comfort with the results" and thus decided an independent investigation was not needed.
In Darlington in 1983, for example, Labour just clung on and thus decided to stick with Foot, despite a 7% swing to the Tories.
Others feared losing valuable contracts to for-profit companies and thus decided to comply with the dictates of the occupying power.
The time when corporate information technology departments supplied smartphones and thus decided what phone their employees would use is largely over.
I live in London, so haven't experienced xenophobia as such, but my cousin living in Birmingham had dog poo thrown in her garden, and thus decided to move back to Poland.
Then word got around that Syrian state security had their own reasons for wanting Hariri dead – they believed he was plotting with the French to destroy Syrian power in Lebanon and thus decided to kill him – even if this provoked an outcry which would force Syrian troops to leave their satrapy in Beirut.
Crystal talks about Pocket Gems' War Dragons, where players can see when their guild has declared war on another guild, and thus decide whether to join the fray.
Providing a way for women to contribute data anonymously or, if they so choose, with their own details, can be key to documenting violence and understanding the scale of a problem, and thus deciding upon appropriate responses.
The new object, now known poetically as 2003 UB313, is destined to languish nameless until the astronomical union panel comes to a conclusion and thus decides which part of the astronomical bureaucracy is responsible for major planets or minor planets, will have to approve a new name.
If corporate boards begin to despair that business will ever recover, they could conclude that reverse splits provide the only hope to get decent share prices and, thus, decide that they are willing to bear the immediate pain to get to such a level.
But perhaps what is somewhat new is the type of youth (high-achieving solid citizen) participating in this because he or she sees no alternative to the ever-increasing demands for high achievement and thus decides to cope with the pressure through what is essentially an illegal activity.
