"pondered decision" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of considering and carefully thinking about a decision before making it. For example: "I sat and pondered my decision for a long time before finally deciding to take the job."
I discovered, interviewing her, that she had little clue to how his mind worked — how he memorized scripts, pondered decisions, intuited political opportunities.
People are making choices about the way and how much they travel, they're making pondered decisions about whether or not to bring children into a world where human annihilation is a viable possibility, they're making day to day choices about "saving plastic bags," she said.
When leagues, owners, networks, cable companies or others ponder decisions that will affect fans, the desire is to make them think: what will the Sports Fans Coalition say about this? "If they think that someone's watching, it'll make a difference," Blakeman said.
Representative Peter Deutsch, a Democrat from southern Florida, dropped out of sight today while he pondered his decision.
That they first looked at the sun, sat down with crossed legs, picked their teeth, and pondered the decision.
Edwards pondered his decision for at least a week, and he informed Pennington and Testaverde of it on Monday morning.
By signing Stoudemire in the off-season, the Knicks helped themselves to an All-Star even as James pondered his decision on where to play.
Similarly, G.E. pondered the decision to make its Super Bowl debut at such a tense moment, said Judy Hu, global executive director for advertising and brand at G.E. in Fairfield, Conn.
As the governor pondered his decision, Assemblyman James N. Tedisco, a Republican and the Assembly minority leader, said he would begin moving to have Mr. Spitzer impeached if the governor did not step down within 48 hours.
STONY BROOK - HAVING lunch with three friends the other day in the cafeteria at the student activities center at Stony Brook University, Mohammad Abbasi, 18, a sophomore pharmacology student from Levittown, pondered the decision that brought him there two years ago.
The Federal Reserve again kept interest rates near zero for an "extended period", but its accompanying language on the economy was markedly less optimistic than in recent months.Analysts pondered the decision by the European Union to release the results of "stress tests" for banks in July.
