Sentence examples for policy comparable from inspiring English sources

If the bill becomes law, it would be a milestone in social policy, comparable to the creation of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965.

As for a substantive policy comparable to gay marriage, the issue that divides ethnic-minority people most clearly from the rest of the electorate is workplace discrimination.

Richelieu sought to make French colonial policy comparable to that of England and the Netherlands, joint victors with France in the long struggle in Europe against Spain.

"While we did not make this decision lightly, we believe it is necessary and in the best long-term interests of our shareowners to adopt a dividend policy comparable to the policies of our competitors," says AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong C. Michael Armstrong.

The IRS dished out $58 billion worth of EITC checks in 2015, making the policy comparable in size to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is the second-biggest federal safety net measure after Medicaid.

Across countries there is substantial variation in the duration and generosity of maternity leave and so, in order to make policies comparable across countries, the OECD calculates the duration of the full-time equivalent of the leave period if paid at 100% of an employee's last earnings.

The policy of "comparable outcomes" means GCSE predictions are based on primary test results.

This policy was comparable, said the paper, in a paraphrase of Leach's views, to "Joseph Stalin's notorious seizure of land from prosperous Russians known as the Kulaks".

This study finds that "apartheid" is not an accurate classification of the system in Cuba; rather, the policy is comparable to an economic "firewall" designed to allow regulated engagement with the international capitalist community, while preventing ingress of capitalism domestically.

They observe that a myopic policy achieves comparable performance as the optimal policy that requires exponential complexity and assumes full knowledge of the channel model.

Furthermore, the myopic policy achieves comparable performance as the optimal policy that requires exponential complexity and assumes full knowledge of the channel model.