Sentence examples for on policy grounds from inspiring English sources

If one judges Obama's record on policy grounds (as political journalists are wont to not do), 2013 was surprisingly successful.

Even those who did not feel a personal stake in the inauguration or who opposed Mr. Obama on policy grounds remained in the company of others to watch one of the country's occasional concessions to the pomp and circumstance of royalty.

"Really, they're objecting to him on policy grounds".

The veto threat is misguided, first, on policy grounds.

"It is a new tax, and we disagree with it on policy grounds for sure".

Mr. Clinton's aides insisted today, not surprisingly, that the decision was made on policy grounds alone.

Kerpen, now in a coat, accused the administration of using the prospect of state-based health insurance market calamities to "intimidate the court to decide not on legal grounds, but on policy ground and political grounds".

The same day, Eagleburger sent Robson a letter saying that State supported continuation of Agriculture Department credits "on foreign policy grounds". On Nov. 8, 1989, the $1 billion for Iraq was approved by the National Advisory Council.

Among Lowell's letters from that time are those to public officials, including one to President Lyndon B. Johnson in May 1965 refusing on foreign policy grounds to take part in the White House Festival of the Arts.

Congress might well retain the power of the purse, but this power would have to be defended on contemporary policy grounds, not abstruse constitutional doctrine.

Escaping the common sense of the trial judge was the fact that the Michigan court did not recognize the Indian talaq on public policy grounds.