The phrase "act of policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific action or decision made in accordance with a set of guidelines or regulations.
Example: "The recent act of policy regarding environmental regulations has sparked a debate among industry leaders."
Alternatives: "policy action" or "policy decision".
Such pragmatic-administrative perspectives shed light on regulation as an act of policy making.
Any bold act of policy or legislation risked splitting the new government in two.
By a deliberate act of policy, well understood in Berlin, large numbers were starved, flogged and worked to death.
If war is not a "mere act of policy" but "a true political instrument," political considerations may pervade all of war.
Politicians have had a good view of a debt-fuelled housing bubble and now we have a housing bubble as a deliberate act of policy".
As Carl von Clausewitz, a great Prussian strategist, put it: "War is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means".The other great strategist of that era was the more narrowly prescriptive Antoine-Henri Jomini.
Their crimes were deliberate acts of policy, not occasional excesses, the report makes clear.In this section A lethal culture Chomping Timbits The final reckoning The power of the cursor ReprintsMost culprits are either dead or in their dotage.
There's a having-it-both-ways element, in this sense, to the Romney-Ryan sales pitch: The Republican nominee wants to bask in the reflected glory of his running mate's past acts of policy boldness, even as that same running mate accommodates himself to Romney's more cynical and calculated approach to politics and policy.
The plaintiffs argue that these annual fees "subsidizes those unions for the quintessentially political act of extracting policy commitments from local elected officials on some of the most contested issues in education and fiscal policy".
Yet almost any act of monetary policy is a form of redistribution between savers and borrowers.Mr Weidmann hints he would rather buy private debt than government bonds.
The 1% uprating means that for the first time since 1931, the income of the poorest will fall as a deliberate act of government policy.
