Sentence examples for disguised policy from inspiring English sources

Japan has and has had for many years a thinly disguised policy of "guaranteed employment," fostered by significant government subsidies to companies to make sure that they do anything but fire people when times are bad.

Both the left and the right in France have a tradition of disguising policy with woolly or euphemistic turns of phrase.

Conservatives will certainly charge that the new liberals are guilty of the same sins as the old liberals: urging judges to disguise their policy preferences with ad hoc legal "principles".

It's environmental tyranny disguised as public policy.

I think it's quite sneaky to roll out social policy disguised as a BBC contribution to austerity.

The departure of British troops from the Iraq folly, likely to be completed by June next year, is not even disguised by the policy of "as Iraqis stand up, we stand down".

"Les Voleurs," grounded by Catherine Deneuve's most emotionally naked performance in years, is a sophisticated meditation on loyalty and desire disguised as a policier, while "La Ceremonie" is a skillfully paced suspense thriller complete with big stars -- Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire and Jacqueline Bisset -- and a climactic, hot and cold running bloodbath.

The approach -- clearly explained in a recorded 1981 interview by the ruthless, late Republican strategist Lee Atwater -- involved replacing the party's historical support for civil rights with policies, disguised behind coded language, that disadvantaged African-Americans disproportionately.

National Reporting: Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post for their lucid exploration of Vice-President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy.

But by most accounts, the beverage industry has outspent the pro-tax side and has succeeded in painting the soda tax as a naked money grab cleverly disguised as a health policy.

Gelbspan also criticizes the current administration, documenting its efforts to "demolish the diplomatic foundations" of the international agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol, and describing its approach to energy and environmental policy as "corruption disguised as conservatism".