Sentence examples for attach policy from inspiring English sources

While the Chinese do not attach policy conditions to their loans, they have required that borrowers contract Chinese firms, buy Chinese equipment, and sometimes sign oil sale agreements that require nations to send oil to China in exchange for the loans instead of local currency.

Tuesday morning he was on a conference call with Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan -- one of Mr. Schumer's four public events -- ostensibly to talk about China's hoarding of rare earth elements, but also attacking House conservatives for trying to attach policy initiatives to the short-term spending plan.

In an interview with Politico, the Minority Leader pledged that if Republicans took control of the Senate after the 2014 election, he would attach policy riders to spending bills that would either encumber or fully restrict the president's bureaucratic leeway.

After Senate action, the House would send over the financing bill with no attached policy prescriptions.

He and others noted that attaching policy instructions to spending bills was a Congressional tradition embraced by both parties.

But what's unprecedented here, again, is the unreasonability of the Republican demands and the internal House chaos that makes dealmaking next-to-impossible, not the idea of attaching policy conditions to the debt ceiling or seeking policy deals around it.

However, as Phillips notes, a precedent has been set – since the 2012 election, the debt limit has been increased twice and each time Republicans have failed to attach substantial policy provisions to the increases.

"This helps programs be more secure because instead of trusting the programmer to write checks and filters and all those things correctly across the entire code, they just have to correctly attach the policy once — and this reduces the surface area that that programmer's got to make mistakes," she explains.

Knowing this, members of Congress attach unrelated policy statements in the bill that, while divisive, are not bad enough to sink the passage of the entire bill.

The Republican leader's office is attempting to attach a policy rider to the omnibus bill that would effectively end limits imposed on coordinated spending by federal candidates and political party committees.

Or, as Francis Fukuyama writes in a recent excellent essay in Foreign Affairs: "'Populism' is the label that political elites attach to policies supported by ordinary citizens that they don't like".