Sentence examples for government practised from inspiring English sources

As well as questioning the basis for many of Blair's public statements about the threat posed by Iraq at the time, Chilcot also underlines a series of failings in the style of government practised behind the scenes, criticised at the time as "sofa government", which he says failed to provide sufficient challenge to decisions made by a select inner circle.

The style of government practised by Tony Blair meant that very few ministers had "really been taken along, step-by-step, in the major strategic choices" regarding Iraq, he added.

In the absence of any actual legislation to debate on Monday, government senators practised their improv.

"For the past 40 years, the Malaysian government has practised an affirmative-action policy aimed at raising the living standards of indigenous groups".

The ambassadors of France and Germany wrote a joint article on 4 July strongly criticising the political model embodied by the government and practised also by previous ones.

"Has the world forgotten its boycott of governments that practised apartheid?" she fumed.

Just as Mr Raffarin's Invest in France Agency was unveiling plans to prove French faith in the market, the government was practising old-style interventionism.

In its 2007 report, the JCHR concluded that the government was practising "a deliberate policy of destitution" to deter asylum seekers.

Governments have practised "incremental penny pinching", adding conditions and sanctions, he says.

One Aboriginal Health Worker argued for a 'co-operative self-determination' where government agencies practise non-interference whilst still maintaining support to AMSs to self-direct the delivery of health care.

Labour has always been split on electoral reform, and for the moment the ranks of the naysayers are swelled by intense animosity to coalition government as currently practised, and towards the Lib Dems in particular.