Sentence examples for consensus policy from inspiring English sources

Faced with this lack of consensus, policy makers define good education as higher test scores.

In 1994, engagement was the level-headed consensus policy option, as any other alternative would have led prematurely to war.

The problem with this cost-benefit logic is that the consensus policy track already agrees with it, as do I, to the extent to which the logic works.

When the N.S.C. is functioning properly, it serves as an honest broker that takes into account every department's position — or "equities" — and provides a forum to come up with a consensus policy, which is exactly what happened in this case.

Even on the Senate side the discipline's been pretty good….The Democrats have become an obstacle to consensus, just as the President has been an obstacle to consensus, and our view on the Iraq Study Group is, you gotta have a consensus policy on Iraq if you're going to have an effective policy.

The way to combine fingerprints is controlled by the consensus policy.

This means that deviation from the Washington consensus policies is less costly in terms of aid flows and trade preferences.

Until his Pasok party's landslide victory last October, Papandreou was admired abroad where his consensus policies, global outlook and quiet determination invariably won plaudits.

What he is a fan of is the parts of Thatcherism, like trade-union reform and most privatization, that have become consensus policies.

The reasoning behind these policies – often called the Washington consensus policies – was that big and intrusive governments were the main causes of poor economic performances of the African countries.

This was more than three times the growth rate during the preceding two terms of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who implemented "Washington Consensus" policies and remains a much-preferred statesman in the US capital.