Sentence examples for policy as an example from inspiring English sources

Using U.S. policy as an example, ethanol prices rise above the gasoline price by the amount of the tax credit.

I don't think you can look to European tax policy as an example, because their geographic circumstances are so different from ours.

Mr. Dworsky cites Sears's holiday return policy as an example of one that needs to be read carefully; details vary depending on when the item was purchased.

Former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott, who gives large amounts to charity, described the policy as an example of "bad society, not big society", adding: "It's insulting nonsense to pretend people give generously to charity to dodge tax".

"The policy is not one of those that is strictly enforced," said Ron Canestrari, the Assembly majority leader, managing a blithe grin as he defended the open-door policy as an example of direct democracy.

He cited Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb, who is using Facebook to talk to 18-21 year-olds, helping to inform party policy, as an example of how to use networking sites.

Mozilla cited its health benefit policies as an example of how it honors sexual diversity, because it offers the same benefits to domestic partnerships as it does to married couples and its life insurance policy covers domestic partnerships as well.

The more that various effects of a policy are considered, and not simply the economic return, the more likely a country is to achieve a good balance, said Sangay Wangchuk, the head of Bhutan's national parks agency, citing agricultural policies as an example.

The official pointed to recent guidelines that the Departments of Education and Justice sent to school districts that were designed to prompt changing "zero tolerance" school discipline policies as an example of the kinds of actions that might be involved.

To use it as an occasion to point out the folly of U.S. energy policy, as, for example, the German environmental minister, Jürgen Trittin, did, is to invite the charge of insensitivity, or even worse.

The degree to which nurses' views and inputs were considered and incorporated was also contested, with the OSD policy given as an example of the unintended consequences that occurred during policy implementation, because these perspectives or insights from nurses were ignored.