"ground decision" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a decision based on reason or reality instead of emotion. For example, "He tried to make an emotional argument, but in the end I made the ground decision to go with the facts."
The challenge is, quite simply, to ground decisions in the latest and best knowledge of what actually works.
The technique of "evidence-based decision-making" offers what seems like a solution to this so-called "postmodern" problem, as it proposes to ground decisions in something concrete and universal, namely the evidence.
At a theoretical level the problem is elegantly solved – the modern physician should seek partnership with patients, ground decisions in evidence-based medicine and surrender to transparency and accountability in their practice [ 2, 34- 36] – but our results suggest that things are not so simple in practice.
Downstream, 'on the ground' decisions made due to limited resources will misclassify groups of people, and contribute to lack of sensitivity in traditional methods of forecasting (which are based on monitoring numbers of people retained on specific regimens at a cross sectional point in time).
The middle-ground decision is typical of Mr. Salazar's stewardship at the Interior Department, where he has tried to mediate between competing energy and environmental interests.
But the way the grounding decision was rolled out was highly unusual, the experts said.
By dispensing with the necessity of asking for specific relief beyond that afforded by adjudication itself, it is true, the occasions for applying the policy through grounding decision upon failure to satisfy remedial limitations have been avoided.
As of 1 October, 114 potential victims were found to have been trafficked, while 58 people were awaiting a 'reasonable grounds' decision and 70 people were awaiting a conclusive decision on their status.
"It's targeted to people like middle managers of African cities" — on-the-ground decision-makers who understand it's sometimes preferable to deploy young volunteers with sticks and seeds than to construct a multimillion-dollar wastewater-treatment plant that will inevitably break down.
Presidents may vary in how much they delegate on-the-ground decisions in armed conflict to military commanders.
