Sentence examples for drag policy from inspiring English sources

Forced to negotiate and compromise, they drag policy toward the center, allowing moderates to feel represented instead of ignored.

In his previous role as deputy prime minister, Mr. Kan was one of two top officials directing the Hatoyama government's still-early efforts to make the bureaucracy more answerable to elected politicians, and to drag policy making out of smoky back rooms.

Wright also claims that Scannell imposed a "no drag" policy on the show, in an attempt to avoid the risk of children becoming "sexually confused" by seeing beavers gussied up in non-gender-conforming clothing.

The party would also find itself in a position familiar to other far-right parties in Europe, dragging policy and debate to the right while its position as an opposition party means it doesn't have to figure out how to implement its ideas. .

The irony is that all of us for years have been defending the presidential prerogative and regarding the Congress as a drag on policy.

E.U. frustration, though, is mainly over Spain's foot-dragging on policy overhauls.

If it weren't for the Americans, you would have no credibility". Khalil has been particularly adept at dragging U.S. policy into the courtroom.

As the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has made clear — including repeatedly to Congress — the Fed has continued its stimulus policies in part to offset the drag from fiscal policy.

Worse, as the war dragged on, policies meant to prop up wobbly dominoes instead had the effect of shoving them in the opposite direction.

The director of Brazil's AIDS program accused the Bush administration today of toughening America's stance toward Brazil's manufacture of generic AIDS drugs and of dragging AIDS policies into trade negotiations.

He described VOA as an "aging, recidivist Cold War propaganda machine seeking to stay relevant by creating its own bogeymen and brainwashing the masses to promote knuckle-dragging caveman policies of force and subservience".