One has to make the most basic decisions before a single word is written.
Upright or grand, digital or acoustic, new or used - these are only the most basic decisions you will have to make when buying a piano.
He failed to take control in the days and weeks after the earthquake, and his continuing refusal to make the most basic decisions is hampering the rebuilding efforts.
Fifty-six days into the spill and it is not clear who is responsible — BP, federal, state or local authorities — for the most basic decisions, like when to deploy booms to protect sensitive wetlands.
The government of President René Préval still has not made many of the most basic decisions, including where to build new housing, and whether and how it will exercise its powers of eminent domain.
In the tumult of the two decades since free markets and imperfect democracy took hold in Eastern Europe, the laws governing guardianship have largely remained intact, stripping hundreds of thousands of people of the authority to make the most basic decisions about their lives, even when they may be capable of looking after themselves, advocates say.
One of the most basic decisions you have to make is how much you're going to charge for your product or service.
For these designers, administrators, and planners, an interpretation of patient-centeredness served as a heuristic, guiding the most basic decisions about space, people, and processes in the hospital.
Under a conservatorship, which must be granted by a judge, a person turns over the most basic decisions of their life to another person or persons, including about money, medical treatment and even where they live.
At the heart of the matter is one of the most basic decisions societies make: how to manage the fundamental tradeoff between the two primary factors of production -- labor utilization vs. resource consumption.
