Sentence examples for backs a policy from inspiring English sources

More than 150 migrants, the majority of them asylum seekers from Syria, have perished in "push backs" – a policy pursued since traffickers began taking the treacherous sea route from the Turkish coast to the Greek isles following the construction of a metal barrier along the land border that divides the two neighbours.

Her office said the senator backs a policy that includes permanent limits on the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo to foreign countries.

No Asian ally is prepared to back a policy of confrontation.

But he was well aware during the debate of the consequences of backing a policy unpopular with Republicans.

The school board in Raleigh voted 5 to 4 Tuesday to roll back a policy that buses students to achieve diversity.

Kadima, for example, backed a policy of Israeli "realignment" — withdrawal from parts of the occupied West Bank — and there was little internal dissent.

At the State Department she backed a policy known as transformative democracy, arguing that the cause of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was rooted in oppressive governments.

In a further indication of the Coalition's election policies Michaelia Cash, the employment minister, told Sky News the government would back a policy of "incremental" industrial relations changes.

I rate as a "left liberal" according to the political compass; I wouldn't back a policy that put frontline services in health or education at risk.

The Lib Dems have backed a policy to give unmarried couples who live together fair and reasonable redress upon a relationship breakdown and after death.

"He says he thinks marriage is between men and women, but he has never backed a policy to make that so.