Sentence examples for a policymaking position from inspiring English sources

I'm not in a policymaking position, never have been".

That year, the city was able to shrink the rolls of those required to file by scrapping the salary test, and instead declaring that anyone holding a policymaking position had to file, regardless of income.

The White House counsel's disparagement of the Geneva Conventions and of prohibitions on torture as "quaint" opened the way to systematic and spectacular abuses at Abu Ghraib and other American-run prisons--a moral and political catastrophe for which, in a pattern characteristic of the Administration's management style, no one in a policymaking position has been held accountable.

Likewise, he said, Ms. Kennedy was not obliged to file for 2003 or 2004 because "she did not fit into any of the categories" once the law changed and the department concluded that "she did not have any policymaking position at the Department of Education".

A sizable minority of women are members of the National Assembly, and some occupy policymaking positions in the government, although men dominate the highest government and party offices.

Of more than 500 senior policymaking positions requiring Senate confirmation, just 43 percent have been filled — a reflection of a White House that grew more cautious after several nominations blew up last spring, a Senate that is intensively investigating nominees and a legislative agenda that has consumed both.

That, in turn, is a reflection of the absence of diversity in Silicon Valley, especially in leadership and policymaking positions.

Later, he approved legislation in the Czech Republic barring Communist leaders from policymaking positions in its democracy.

He should be able to verify at the end of his term that he has appointed more people from minority groups to policymaking positions and federal judgeships than any other president in history, as did Presidents Carter and Clinton in their tenures.

Of those, the New York-based Secretariat was the only division to employ enough Americans "to consistently satisfy its goal for equitable representation" and that hired "Americans in senior and policymaking positions at levels commensurate with major contributors relative to their contribution levels," in the eight years studied, according to the report.

But the economists in policymaking positions are just the beginning.