Sentence examples for ancient policies from inspiring English sources

But Holland stays dry: its ancient tradition of dikes and pumps has been complemented by a $3 billion-plus barrier against ocean storms; its ancient policies for maintaining the balance between the sea and land are enforced and refined by the Rijkswaterstaat, which Ward calls "the most efficient national water agency in the world".

But only a month earlier he sent me a gift of £500, part of the yield of one of the ancient insurance policies he was in the habit of disbursing among his children.

It is especially pertinent to this one, an ancient policy that Mr Brown himself previously and stubbornly opposed.

I answer that it appears to me almost impossible, and that because ancient policy was violent and contrary to the more natural and usual course of things.

It is natural on this occasion to ask whether sovereigns may not return to the maxims of ancient policy and consult their own interest in this respect more than the happiness of their subjects?

Indeed, Burke can be found, sometimes, on rational grounds, deprecating all explicit appeal to speculation of whatever hue, if it had a disturbing effect: 'reason not at all oppose the ancient policy and practice of the empire, as a rampart against the speculations of innovators on both sides of the question' (italics added) (ATX, W & S 1981-, 1981-,).

"I think that the policy is completely homophobic and it's an ancient policy started by the AIDS epidemic but I don't think that Health Canada or Canadian Blood Services has caught up to the times," Carlson told VICE.

Conversely, Tebow is not Mark Brunell, an experienced but ancient insurance policy who was central to last season's story line that Sanchez had no one to push him.

He would not televise home games and stuck stubbornly to an ancient ticket policy that crimped team revenue.

One thing's for sure: Judging from the Cheney and Bush returns, we've come a long way indeed from the classic tax policies of ancient Greece.

Important political policies of ancient Japan also derived from Confucian philosophical teachings.