Sentence examples for policy lay from inspiring English sources

I argued that Islamophobia, misguided imams and foreign policy lay behind the radicalisation of British Muslims, not the soft implementation of multiculturalism.

European officials said that behind Mr. Putin's criticism of foreign policy lay a reminder that turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa could decrease Europe's range of energy sources and make it more dependent on Russian energy.

Assemblies of the guild's members enjoyed some legislative powers, but the control of guild policy lay in the hands of a few officials and a council of advisers or assistants.

Behind the latter policy lay a theory of artistic value that you could call patrician: art's purpose as ennobling, its realm the nation, its organisational form the institution, its repertoire the established canon and works aspiring to join it.

But baulked of his ambition to lead Britain into the EEC by de Gaulle, Macmillan's greatest achievement in foreign policy lay in hastening the thaw in relations with the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin, post-Dulles world.

And the lure of a foreign stockmarket listing was dangled before big newspaper groups and CCTV, the national broadcaster.Behind this policy lay an economic imperative: to transform the state media from a loss-making drain on government finances into a globally competitive industry.

At the heart of successful public policy lies a shared, bipartisan assumption that science is trustworthy.

"The responsibility for fiscal policy lies squarely with the administration and the Congress".

Thus, for the United States, the most important decades in foreign policy lie ahead".

In fact, an anti-free-market policy lies behind excessive drug costs: government-granted patent monopolies.

One of the more discouraging examples of how this imbalance misshapes American foreign policy lies in Africa.