"outright policy" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize an immediate and bold decision or course of action on a particular issue. For example: The government issued an outright policy to ban all single-use plastic in the country.
Again, these were not outright policy mistakes.
But the accounts do offer up a number of piquant revelations on that nation's crisis, including outright policy mistakes, dubious conduct, personal agendas and tragedies.
If the memoir makes just one outright policy statement, it's in protest of neverending public burning not only of individuals but of the idea that consciousness is private, and not a domain for armed agents of the state.
The real culprit, of course, is that both governments have forced their central banks to follow counterproductive, if not outright ruinous, policies.
At a time when some political leaders have become more cautious about — or have outright rejected — policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, several major faith leaders are making environmental care a top spiritual priority.
As Canadians watch the quadrennial shitshow that is the US presidential election play out, many are having a tough time wrapping their heads around the appeal of Donald Trump, a head of hair who has been caught lying to "pants on fire" proportions throughout his campaign, proposing both impractical and outright racist policies, and just generally acting like a clown.
The vote in Congress does not end the policy outright.
Mr. Draghi was determined to avoid another such fiasco when he designed the new Outright Monetary Transactions policy.
There is a way to ease Mr. Putin's predicament that could help him avert a clash with Washington without seeming to embrace American policy outright: He can close the gap between Russian actions and Russian rhetoric.
What neither man seems ready to acknowledge outright is that policy makers have run out of tools for stewarding an economy that -- nearly three years into a recovery -- has yet to flourish and may even be downshifting to neutral.
Their plan, they said, is to try to introduce a resolution, backed by other scouting councils in other communities around the country, that would either revise the policy outright or set up a process to do so.
