Sentence examples for a potent policy from inspiring English sources

The human-rights conditions imposed by Congress give the Clinton administration a potent policy instrument to force the Colombian military to clean up its act, but circumventing the conditions by granting a waiver has sent exactly the wrong signal.

Social protection is a potent policy tool to protect people from poverty throughout the life cycle.

Noting that threats to global financial stability had increased since its last health check in October, the IMF said: "The main message of this report is that additional measures are needed to deliver a more balanced and potent policy mix for improving the growth and inflation outlook and securing financial stability.

Sullivan has basically two problems with the reformocons: first, while we have plenty of good ideas, we lack a "unifying theme or rallying cry"; we promote "small, but potent policy proposals", and what we need is really "a Republican version of the Clinton administration", which would triangulate the heck out of everyone while implementing our "small but potent" ideas.

Although Mr. Jiang is giving up his presidential duties, his broad power base assures that he will remain a potent unofficial policy maker for many years.

Tell them it is store policy — a potent phrase, "store policy" — to add 50 cents to each subsequent bill until their debt is cleared.

If this strategy stops working, Gazprom will no longer be such a potent foreign-policy tool for the Kremlin.The Miller's taleFor years, Gazprom's bosses were in denial about threats to its business model.

Yet she has been a potent force on policy issues: She regularly meets with visiting heads of state and makes official overseas visits.

Some trainers, owners and industry insiders like De Francis warn the sport needs to adopt a potent, uniform drug policy to replace the state-by-state patchwork of regulations and to persuade a skeptical public to return more often to the grandstand and wager more money.

"Higher growth means a fuller public purse and a more potent fiscal policy response to this demographic challenge," Lagarde explained.

Although out of public service after 1981, Mr. Kaufmann remained a potent voice in defense policy discourse.