Sentence examples for more modest policy from inspiring English sources

But if such a war is unwinnable, then perhaps you must reconsider your sense of its necessity and choose a more modest policy instead.

Living within our means, adopting a more modest foreign policy, abolishing nuclear weapons and combating climate change are radical goals in today's political climate.

Given the sweep of his attacks, the alternatives he comes up with are surprisingly small-bore: America should live within its means, pursue a more modest foreign policy, act to abolish nuclear weapons and combat global warming — all sensible ideas but hardly the sort of grand transformation he says the country needs.

Mr. Chertoff has been able to make more modest administrative and policy changes on his own, including cutting the number of cities eligible to apply for port security grants to 66 from about 360 -- removing places like Martha's Vineyard -- and rewriting the formula so that the ports at highest risk will most likely receive the biggest grants.

He crusades against what he sees as the unchecked killing power of drone strikes and champions a more modest and noninterventionist foreign policy.

Just recall the market's "taper tantrums" in May 2013, when then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested a far more modest turn in monetary policy.

But in the face of Republican skepticism about climate change and strong opposition to environmental regulation, the administration will be spending more time defending the modest policy gains of the past two years than advancing new proposals.

Although Lind angrily traces our quixotic campaign to reorder the Middle East to the theologies of the neocon right, he blames the leaders of both political parties for the underlying failure, once the Soviet Union collapsed, to adopt "a more modest and solvent" foreign policy.

The varied experiences of functioning with an impairment may have a more modest role to play in policy deliberations than the common experiences of stigma and discrimination.

Turnbull has more modest greenhouse gas targets and a policy few believe can achieve them.

Vice President Al Gore, adopting the Clinton policy, supports a more modest land-based system that could protect against a small number of missiles fired at the United States by mistake or by what the administration previously called rogue states but now calls "states of concern," like, perhaps, North Korea or Iraq.