sound decision
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsoundanddecision
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sound
adjective
uk/saʊnd/us/saʊnd/
not broken or damaged; healthy; in ...
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decision
noun
uk/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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(Definition ofsoundanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The evaluation criteria should be applied withinsounddecision-making processes.
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The speeches heard tonight, except mine, have not been sufficiently informed, and cannot be the basis of asounddecision.
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The committee made asounddecisionto permit the publication of evidence as it was presented.
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We make no criticism of that, because it may well have been a perfectlysounddecision.
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It will not be information that produces asounddecisionbut the council—based on the information that its systems should have provided.
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That puts a large premium on good management andsounddecision-making.
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Socially it was asounddecision.
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They alone can give asounddecision.
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This will mean that we as individual parliamentarians have no opportunity to look at the text, to evaluate it, to discuss and reach asounddecisionon it.
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And then, at the end of that time, the judge would be in a very much better position to come to a reallysounddecisionas to the proper sentence.
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These recommendations highlighted key areas that require continuous investigation to enable timely andsounddecision-making and policy development.
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By quick andsounddecisionhe was able to land all these tanks at the correct spot and, by skillful handling, incurred only a minimum of damage to his ships.
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Rather, in order to make sound decisions in an uncertain world, one must ignore some of the available information.
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However, all markets must obtain and use revenue and personnel resources to provide an environment for sound decisions and long-term sustainability.
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Patients may already have lost the ability to make sound decisions about their person and property.
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However, the authors have eloquently demonstrated a third option; the art of systematically delineating and balancing ethical issues and making sound decisions in day to day clinical practice.
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Financial institutions, when considering applications for credit of any kind, must be allowed the freedom to make reasonable, commercially sound decisions.
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Even then the clause is not right; even systems cannot make sound decisions.
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Those are sensible provisions which provide authorities with the flexibility that they need to reach sound decisions on such cases.
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