The phrase "authoritative choice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a decision or selection that is considered to be definitive or backed by authority.
Example: "The committee's decision was seen as the authoritative choice on the matter, setting a precedent for future actions."
Alternatives: "definitive selection" or "official decision".
quality, 8), rather than, as in Plato and Aristotle, also their greater pleasantness — but on the same ground of the authoritative choice of intellectuals who are supposedly uniquely qualified to judge by virtue of their past acquaintance with experiences of both kinds.
Thus, policy activity can be characterized as informed by evidence (Bowen and Zwi 2005) rather than being an expression of an authoritative choice (Colebatch 2002) form of decision making.
Google and Wikipedia have become the authoritative resources of choice; only 16% of teachers in the Pew survey believed their students would seek the assistance of a librarian.
Upon completion, both MILAMOS and the Woomera Manual should provide space operators, military leaders, and policy makers around the world a choice of authoritative statements – potentially competing, potentially complementary – on the laws applicable to the military uses of outer space.
"Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, McKee's Pathology of the Skin, 5th Edition, is your reference of choice for up-to-date, authoritative information on dermatopathology.
The author of this article is not aware of an authoritative source providing encompassing study data for the choice of particular CT protocols.
Providing teens authoritative parenting means giving them autonomy to make choices within the structure of a home that fosters a connection to family and school.
So it is puzzling that there is no such authoritative collection of reviews for physicians, the highest-stakes choice of service provider that most people make.
The physical activity and dietary component focus on an authoritative parenting style to facilitate better dietary and activity choices for children and have been informed by the dietary intervention previously implemented in the successful HIKCUPS child obesity intervention [ 27, 28].
As columnist Tom Ellis opined today in the authoritative Kathimerini, Papandreou "will be judged by his strategies, tactical decisions and choice of secretary and party aides" during the four-day conference.
The researchers assert that their theory can help explain the recent rise of "helicopter parenting," a version of the authoritative style in which parents seek to influence their children's choices with a combination of persuasion and intensive monitoring.
