Sentence examples for policy obsessions from inspiring English sources

He doesn't let his anger take priority over his policy obsessions, where he still believes he can make a difference.

It is a truism of American politics that the advocates of liberal positions on the above issues almost always seek to litigate their policy obsessions, because they know they usually lose at the ballot box.

Soon he will focus more closely on health care, his central policy obsession.

I have no party affinity, but rather a policy obsession.

Before September 11th, when the Administration's foreign-policy obsession was missile defense, it almost seemed to welcome the prospect of a nuclear-armed North Korea.

The Harmelin decision in 1991 and the sentencing scheme it upheld, enacted by the Michigan Legislature in 1978, bracketed the peak years of the "war on drugs," a public-policy obsession that created the massive incarceration problem that is overwhelming state budgets today.

The Mayor of New York and his police chief have a public-policy obsession with cleaning, with cleansing, and they decided that arresting members of the dance troupes that perform in moving subway cars is one of the ways to clean up the city.

Mr. Bush has two inviolate, one-size-fits-all policies (if obsessions can be called policies): the tax cut (for domestic affairs) and "regime change" in Iraq (foreign affairs).

A NEW Vietnam, a subordination to American policy, an Atlanticist obsession.

Third, it needs to shift the euro zone's macroeconomic policy from its obsession with budget-cutting towards an agenda for growth.

For more than three years some of us have fought the policy elite's damaging obsession with budget deficits, an obsession that led governments to cut investment when they should have been raising it, to destroy jobs when job creation should have been their priority.