take a decision

"I don't have an answer right now but we are going to take a decision with common sense."

“It now falls on you, as a custom officer, to take a decision about stopping a vehicle or not,” he said.

Head teachers take a decision on whether to shut schools.

Lord Heseltine, government minister who announced closure of 31 mines in 1992: "My personal view was one of great sadness to have to take a decision which everybody knew was coming. Frankly, the miners knew there was an end to coal production for economic reasons. They knew it was going to happen. That doesn't make it any easier or any less unpleasant. It was simply a fact of economic life."

“This clearly was not done,” he added, “so we had to take a decision.”