It's a tactic that is a demonstrable failure, only validating anti-immigrant politics.
She has repeatedly insisted on austerity for hard-pressed countries, even when it has been a demonstrable failure.
The prejudices of the Coalition's conservative "base" are, it seems, a more important consideration than other factors, like a government-commissioned review that found work for the dole increased the chances of an unemployed person getting a job by just 2%, or the fact that charities working in the sector consider the program a "demonstrable failure".
Of course this policy was a demonstrable failure, since the Castros' revolutionary regime it sought to oust is still in power after 50 years.
Hughes writes of "the demonstrable failure of the state and Commonwealth" to address the issue of climate change in his August 2014 article.
I think the war on drugs has been a demonstrable failure since the 1920s and I'm glad we're finally starting to see the beginning of revisions of this although there is still a long way to go.
This plan, described as a regional security cooperation initiative, locks in three Bush policies that have resulted in demonstrable failure, major human rights violations, and death: the war on drugs, the counterterrorism paradigm, and border security.
In contrast, mental fatigue represents a failure to complete mental tasks that require self-motivation and internal cues in the absence of demonstrable cognitive failure or motor weakness [ 15].
Understanding the demonstrable and dismal failure of punitive policy, the abolitionist movement has always been committed to fostering effective, community-based alternatives that are independent of the penal system.
Similarly, in cases of demonstrable and wide-reaching failure, the commercial prerogative impacts on the ability to govern that failure, resulting in 'civil dislocation': the mismatch between the functions that government institutions are supposed to perform and their actual practice (Jasanoff [1997]).
