Sentence examples for combination of sticks from inspiring English sources

In Massachusetts, Mr Romney is introducing universal health care through a combination of sticks and carrots: everybody will be forced to buy health insurance, with poorer people getting subsidies.It's the healthy eating, stupidTo the extent that any new subjects have been added to the governors' curriculum, they all have a distinctively centrist flavour.

Betcherman et al. (2004), Martin (2014) and Kuddo (2009) recommend a combination of sticks and carrots to provide incentives to search for and accept jobs, to provide employment incentives by making participation mandatory with the threat of benefit sanctions, and point to evidence of higher effectiveness.

Perhaps the clearest evidence of America's dysfunctional immigration system is the fact that illegal immigrants now outnumber legal ones.Most Americans seem to think the answer is a combination of stick and carrot.

- Speaking of the Taliban, here's an interesting piece from Foreign Policy about how they're using a sexual combination of stick (fervently attacking sex before marriage, leading to a bunch of randy and angry single dudes) and carrot (the promise of banging a bunch in the afterlife) to get their suicide-ready recruits.

After a confrontation with Iran was defused, The Guardian, the British newspaper, exulted, "America wields only a big stick these days, but the old continent believes in a combination of little sticks and juicy carrots".

He called for a combination of big-stick diplomacy and increased domestic oil exploration.

Technology site Ars Technica argues that the best solution is "some combination of regulatory stick and rating system carrot".

The sailors of the South Seas made the world's first navigating devices, which were crude combinations of notched sticks that could be used to plot the position of a boat between two fixed stars — the only visible points of reference.

The constitution's spending clause has served as a rather open-ended vehicle for the federal government to entice state partnerships through a combination of carrots and sticks.

Complicit in Islamism's rise, Pipes argues, are the moderate Muslims, who have been silenced by the radicals with a combination of carrots and sticks.

It is this combination of carrots and sticks that has brought Iran back to talks, and these will be the baseline conditions for a nuclear weapons-free Iran.