Sentence examples for official minds from inspiring English sources

Of China's 660 or so cities, no fewer than 183 have vowed to turn themselves into "modern international metropolises".Mr Pan says that devising a green GDP target would help to focus official minds on the price of reckless development.

In some official minds, Dodd-Frank has made it impossible for too-big-to-fail banks to exist — if any such bank got into trouble, it would be shut down without any significant costs being incurred by taxpayers.

Such attitudes have reinforced Turks' conviction that the EU is a "Christian club .In Washington, Turkey's threats to carry its battle against Kurdish PKK fighters into northern Iraq are also concentrating official minds.

"The continued death squad operation reflects an official mind-set in which the ends are seen as justifying the means," Human Rights Watch said in its report.

But it is the easy option of the official mind, those paid (by us) to manage, whether in the universities or in Whitehall.

For decades, historians of diplomacy and empire have spoken of the "official mind", and have assumed it was possible through diligent work in the Public Record Office to know the "truth" of how policy was made.

In the peculiar world of the official mind as it grapples with becoming "continental", any forward movement must involve Foley's monitoring of the Britannia, the replica pub that is the centrepiece of his country's commitment to the fair.

(Internet downloads and its copyright ending changed officials' minds).

Rather than looking as if he were horribly aggrieved, Fields merely tried to change the officials' minds by pointing upcourt.

This, rather than Renault's longer-term goals, is foremost in Russian officials' minds today.

"The law was designed so that the public would be informed and know what kind of thoughts and questions were going through their elected officials' minds," she said.