Policy
policy (noun) - a set of plans and ideas used for making decisions in politics and economics and other areas
a policy platform
a policy statement
a policy decision
formulate policy
develop a policy
policy making
adopt a policy
establish a policy
follow a policy
implement a policy
carry out a policy
shape policy
failure to shape and conduct an effective policy
an important change in policy
a sudden policy reversal
policy remains intact
a new policy is called for
a policy initiative
policy proposals
bring forth policy proposals
bring forth policy proposals on this issue
important changes in policy and practice
a policy area
proposals in a specific policy area
a balancing of interests in the policy proposals
present policy proposals
rejection of previous policies
a fundamental rejection of previous policies
a clear policy
a coherent policy
a policy aimed at economic growth
a controversial policy
official policy
company policy
a matter of company policy
policy on housing allowances
government policy
public policy
an open-door policy
disastrous foreign policy
national policy
local policy
foreign policy
an environmental policy document
policy specialists
economic policy
fiscal policy
policy on fiscal and monetary reform
monetary policy
balance-of-payments policy
competition policy
anti-monopoly policy
spillovers or externalities arising from the policy decisions of member states
short-term policy
long-term policy
funding subject to the political whims and shifts of policy
roped into the policy
knowledgeable about and deeply interested in the reshaping of penal policy
the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests
encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialities
parties use their own politicized technocrats to formulate policy for different sectors of the economy
an insurance policy
renewing an insurance policy
Example sentences:
* They found that it unwise to place too much reliance on Government funding for support, subject as it is to political whim and shifts of policy of the administration.
* It fell to North, McFarlane and Poindexter, as also to anyone else roped into the policy, to carry out a private crusade with a crippling double imperative.
* Nobody wanted to challenge the status quo, especially with a clearly pro-nuclear government policy in the background.
* Both sides apparently believed in a policy of live-and-let-live.
* It is a matter of company policy that employees cannot disclose confidential information.
* They are obstacles on the path to a more sensible defence policy for Britain and NATO.
* Extra staff training is offering mutual benefits for a health authority and nursing homes involved in a policy of contracted beds for long-stay elderly patients.
* Proposals for policy on this issue will be brought forward in the near future.
* Meanwhile the problem for the health service is that although the health authority sits on the policy group and is a coauthor of the community care plan, the work gets done, and the problems arise, in provider units.
* His earlier work had convinced him of the importance of the home market in maintaining effective demand, so a new policy which emphasized its expansion was called for.
* In specific policy areas, moreover, these committee leaders are likely to be the more important political actors, fully capable of destroying a president's legislative proposals.
* Perhaps the oddest consequence of the evolution of the sterling area as a zone for British balance-of-payments policy was the relationship which developed with the colonies, Treating the sterling area as one bloc meant, logically, maximizing dollar receipts for the area as a whole and minimizing dollar debits.
* In any case it remains very doubtful, whatever the view of liberals within these parties, whether the pro-Soviet elements would allow any fundamental rejection of Soviet policy.
* But the open-door policy had to remain intact, thus overseas trading and business partners like Japan could not be unduly offended.
* One is the reaction to Europe's disastrous foreign policy in Bosnia.
* Citrine insisted that the departmental chief officers met with his full-time colleagues on the Authority weekly, encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialisms: a method he had found worked well at the TUC.
* On the other hand, if parties use their own politicized technocrats to get more of a grip on some sectors of public policy, they must still defer to technocratic interests, and co-ordination across sectors is difficult to achieve.
* The internal resources are time, information, expertise and energy, but they alone are insufficient; however skilled, resourceful and energetic a president and his staff may be, policy change will not occur without adequate external resources, in other words, political capital.
* Both Lloyd George and Churchill saw national insurance as a necessary first step towards the prevention of unemployment, which they hoped to bring about by extending the principle of the Development Fund into a national policy to counter depression.
* A former deputy chairman of the Prison Commission, Allen was a sophisticated Whitehall practitioner, knowledgeable about and deeply interested in the reshaping of penal policy.
* It is aimed primarily at local authority members and officers who have not as yet been closely involved in European Community issues but who recognise that 1992 will bring important changes of policy and practice.
* Particular process and policy specialists include health care, housing, retailing, rural resource management, transportation and urban and regional development.
* Economic analysis of the general principles which should underlie the division of functions between the European Community and member state governments places considerable emphasis on the role of spillovers or externalities arising from the policy decisions of member states.
* This policy necessarily involves the interest rate fluctuating with the demand for money.
* It would provide built-in automatic short-term policy responses, and would provide consistency between short-term and medium-term policy actions.
* He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits, which he expects all his managers to endorse, because as a business becomes bigger and bigger, we now have operations in Japan, America and Belgium as well as the UK, I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down.
