The phrase "administrations thought" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and may require additional context or modification to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The administrations thought it was necessary to implement new policies to address the issue."
Alternatives: "the government's perspective" or "the administration's view".
In sending homeless families to a barracks-style shelter in the jail, the mayor has adopted an approach that previous administrations thought was a vestige of the past.
The diplomat familiar with the Saudis through several U.S. administrations thought "Kerry was more positive than the rest of us" about MBS.
As a result, virtually everyone in the United States intelligence community during both the Clinton and the current Bush administrations thought Iraq still had the illicit weapons, he said.
"The Kennedy and Johnson administrations thought they could do anything with fiscal policy, and maybe they were right," says Roberto Perotti, an economist at Milan's Università Bocconi.
FROM THE MOMENT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THOUGHT: "Hmm, let's partner with Pakistan!" What about getting more of our allies to send troops to Afghanistan?
But, with Obama's appointment of Vivek Kundra as his chief information officer and the establishment of data.gov...? Federal managers also gave the next administration thoughts on how to succeed during the transition.
No other armed service in the world remotely approaching the United States Navy in historical importance so completely lacks a synthesis of its history, uniting combat experience with evolution of command, administration, strategic thought and tactical doctrine.
Yet when McKeon's committee invited the administration's thoughts, its representative rejected the effort.
That win-win scenario should offer the Trump administration food for thought.
Wall Street and the Obama administration have long thought that the prospect of hitting the debt ceiling and going into default would be so horrifying that it would lead to a resolution of the budget impasse, Bruce Bartlett writes on the Economix blog of The Times.
Within the past year, projects of University researchers have drawn on the records of the Robert M. Hutchins administration, the Committee on Social Thought, and the University's Chaucer Research Project of the 1930s.
