Sentence examples for offensive policy from inspiring English sources

This will be an offensive policy.

We also know that a strong offensive policy has yet to succeed against Al Qaeda.

On his return to Moscow, Khrushchev surprised his colleagues with a proposal to deal with American power, rendered tersely by Malin as "an offensive policy": Come to an agreement with F. Castro, conclude a military agreement regarding joint defense.

The anchorman of one nightly news show asked his station's military correspondent if he understood how it was that the army's new offensive policy could bring an increase in terrorism.

Thus, Scipio was given the chance to avenge the deaths of his father and uncle in Spain, where he hoped not merely to hold the Carthaginian armies at bay and prevent their sending reinforcements to Hannibal in Italy but to resume his father's offensive policy, to turn back the tide of war, and to drive the enemy out of the Iberian Peninsula.

Attacking a continuing tendency toward conservatism, he said that taking refuge in the familiar phrase, "a well-balanced fleet," was dangerous because it involved no proper definition of "balanced" and meant a defensive rather than an offensive policy.

My Sunday column argues that if we're going to be indignant about recent candidates' offensive comments on rape, we should be even more outraged by offensive policies.

Using shame to embarrass powerful institutions into changing offensive policies is an old tactic, and often an effective one — it's the operating strategy of Human Rights Watch, for example.

Like eradicating the Internal Revenue Service, the GOP's own recurrent shibboleth, scrapping ICE reflects the risible notion that offensive policies can be wished away by atomizing the agency that enforces them.

"Iran, better than any other regional country, knows about its overt and covert enemies and their offensive policies, so its defence doctrine is based only on protecting its national interests... Iran does not have countless fighters, aircraft carriers with atomic ships or nuclear missiles, because it never thinks about going on the attack.

The president ended the Stop Loss policy, which involuntarily extended troops in theater past their commitment -- one of the most offensive policies to troops who made incredible sacrifice.