deliberate decision

collocation in English

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deliberate
adjective
uk
/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us
/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/
(often of something bad) intentional ...
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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 ofdeliberateanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, the emergence of an ethnolect does not always occur as the result of adeliberatedecision.
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Believers become what they are only because of adeliberatedecisionthat is impossible to justify.
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For some patients, living while dying necessitated adeliberatedecisionto focus less on the myeloma and more on life.
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Yet preference-related switching may also be due to adeliberatedecisionbased on political considerations.
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It has been adeliberatedecisionto concentrate our financial, industrial and political power.
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That was clearly adeliberatedecisionby the health board, so the responsibility lies with the health board.
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At this period the danger is given weight not bydeliberatedecision, but by miscalculation.
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We know what would happen bydeliberatedecision.
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I cannot understand that, except on the basis that there was adeliberatedecisionearlier to seek a confrontation.
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I have said that we are making, as adeliberatedecisionof policy, as an exception, the acquisition and improvement of property.
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That was a conscious anddeliberatedecision, debated and taken in the open.
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Their meagre resources will be cut by thedeliberatedecisionto keep pension increases and supplementary benefit below the forecast and to freeze personal allowances.
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That was adeliberatedecisionto ensure that less money was available for capital expenditure.
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If we were wrong in that decision which we took, it was adeliberatedecisionand not one based upon neglect.
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By that, we mean adeliberatedecisionto realign the existing line of defences in order to achieve environmental and engineering benefits.
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Several local authorities have taken adeliberatedecisionin past years to remain either partially or almost wholly dependent upon their direct grant schools.
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It was not an accident: it was adeliberatedecision.
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Our view is that thedeliberatedecisionto open five tankers is responsible for the seepage that has caused such devastation.
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That is not because of adeliberatedecisionto create such uncertainties.
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