The phrase "appearance of decision" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the perception or impression of having made a decision, even if a formal decision has not been reached.
Example: "The committee's actions gave the appearance of decision, but no final agreement had been made."
Alternatives: "illusion of choice" or "facade of resolution".
For the modern manager, change pursued for its own sake is the default position, process is everything and outcomes irrelevant, having the appearance of decision-making while assiduously avoiding accountability.
If the planner fails to consistently obey any rule of this sort or if repeated broadenings of scope are needed to preserve the appearance of optimal decision making, a good case can be made for restricting attention to the simple problem of creating voting districts (without reference to computational costs) and for imagining the planner to be boundedly rational.
But while the report recounts "troubling" episodes and a "potential appearance of politicized decision-making," it "generally did not substantiate the allegations we heard about partisan or racial motivations" or favoritism in enforcing voting rights laws in either administration.
Ms. Fuller said the committee had discussed the appearances of its decision before proceeding.
And, above all, in this highly politicized matter, the appearance of a split decision runs the risk of undermining the public' s confidence in the court itself.
There was no need for the court to have involved itself in the election dispute this time, he said, adding: "Above all, in this highly politicized matter, the appearance of a split decision runs the risk of undermining the public's confidence in the court itself.
The analysis of the individual probabilities generated by the different CTs (in spite of a good correlation) assisted in the identification of possible "problem" variables, e.g. the Glasgow point value and the COI variable, in their order of appearance in the decision rules generated.
The key to understanding this behavior may be that humans are like African buffalo (Prins 1996) or Hamadryas baboons (Smuts et al. 1987), where the appearance of group level decisions is actually an aggregation of individual strategies involving social learning.
In the meantime, we also analyzed the general appearance of PLA, basic data, decision making in treatment, prognosis, and outcome.
Given the importance of facial appearance on voter decision-making and the influence of gender on facial appearance and leadership, here we directly tested the hypothesis that gender affects how people judge political candidates based on facial appearance alone as well as the kinds of facial inferences that predict subsequent voting behavior.
Trump's statements about McCabe put pressure on Sessions to fire him, and would create an appearance of impropriety even if Sessions' decision to fire McCabe were backed by a formal recommendation.
