The phrase "decision dictated" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to communicate that a decision was made due to certain external circumstances or factors. For example, "The decision to stay home for the holidays was dictated by the coronavirus pandemic."
She called his retirement announcement "a courageous decision dictated by prayer, a true message of faith".
A decision dictated by good sense, perhaps, but by raising taxes they're making a political choice.
That decision dictated the victory for Kentucky in this case, Justice Souter said.
He described a system that depended on a news staff that knew what issues to avoid and what issues to highlight rather than one that had every decision dictated to it.
But the company's chief financial officer, Doug Foshee, said yesterday that he could not imagine that Mr. Cheney had specifically approved the change, which he called a routine decision dictated by a shift in Halliburton's business mix.
This decision dictated how the team operated and altered the curriculum they were creating.
Almost certainly, that will need to come from another supreme court decision dictating that marriage equality must become the law of the land nationwide.
All teams are grappling with difficult personnel decisions dictated by the league's salary cap.
Decisions dictated by this brand-protection strategy often run counter to executives' first impulses when faced with a scandal.
Years of decisions dictated by political expediency have led to a chronic budget imbalance that threatens our short-term solvency and long-term economic health.
To the leaders of the Boy Scout troop, whose members are older and less likely to have decisions dictated by their parents, the disbanding of the Cub Scout den is a pity.
