"striking decision" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
One might use it to refer to a decision taken which is considered bold or decisive. For example, "The school board made a striking decision to keep classes in session for the summer."
In her memoir, Manguso makes the striking decision never to quote the diary itself.
It was a striking decision; in other countries, drug abuse has remained primarily a matter for law-enforcement agencies.
All of this is background to Clinton's striking decision to remind us, via an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, of The Atlantic, that she is more hawkish than Obama.
His is a striking decision, given this government's aversion to holding inquiries relating to Unesco world heritage sites in Liverpool and London.
Along these same lines, although the report beat up the West Virginia judiciary pretty thoroughly, it did not consider what was surely the most striking decision there this year.
Finally, perhaps the most striking decision of all: the imposition of a kind of internal martial law, whereby "all normal party meetings at CLP and branch level shall be suspended until the completion of the leadership election".
Last month in Utah, a local judge made the no-less-striking decision to let a homeowner rip up his mortgage and walk away debt-free.
The award is particularly striking because the decision was made before England's victory last month in the World Cup.
All the more striking was his decision last week to sound out Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton herself as a possible secretary of state.
For the Justice Department litigators, it was a striking victory: the decision effectively shut off the habeas route out of Guantánamo.
Nothing in the movie, including the data he amasses, the history he excavates and the miles he racks up during his investigation, is as striking as his decision to risk seeming naïve or worse by making himself part of the story.
