Sentence examples for policy backbone from inspiring English sources

— SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act to give a policy backbone to his belief that goods that were not produced under "rudimentary standards of decency" should not be "allowed to pollute the channels of interstate trade".

One wishes the president would have shown as much foreign policy backbone in his whole tenure that he tried to show in his last month in office.

Your connection of nationalism to neoconservative ideology falls flat to me, and seems intended to tarnish the reputation of people who believe in an idealistic foreign policy with backbone.

Of course, its proponents will point to the policy's backbone in arguing its merits: that it affords otherwise disadvantaged students a chance to better themselves through education, in an attempt to level the socioeconomic playing field and compensate for historical patterns of institutional racism.

The abandonment of Egypt's strong man, Hosni Mubarak; the subsequent acceptance of the election of the radical Muslim Brotherhood; and finally inconsistency in accepting the Army takeover in desperation over President Mohammed Morsi's incompetence did little to foster confidence in Washington's policies or backbone.

The security policy is the backbone of the entire operation because it defines the rules of conducting a business.

"Measures such as the introduction of the blood passport, the whereabouts system and the 'no-needle' policy are the backbone of our relentless fight against doping".

Despite this incredible harm, these liberalization, deregulation, and corporate monopolization policies form the backbone of the current global trade system, consolidated by the WTO since 1995 (1).

Child-friendly school policies form the backbone of these stories, which honour the value of each individual child and, collectively, provide hope for the future of education.

Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, blamed a reckless pursuit of short-term profit and outsize bonuses in "Anglo-American" financial centers — as well as a lack of backbone among policy makers unwilling to stand up to this greed.

This emphasises the need for sub-regional empirical research and impact assessment studies, which could serve as the backbone for policy formulation and implementation on crop and livestock production in the agricultural sector.