Sentence examples similar to policy of push from inspiring English sources

In 2009 the Berlusconi administration, with xenophobic allies from the Northern League, started a policy of push-backs of people in need of protection, a measure condemned by the UN and by the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.

They were part of a larger group of refugees who had been rounded up by the Thai military and cast out to sea in motorless boats, a policy of "push-backs" that has since been halted.

Under the pretext of security last May he started the policy of "push-backs", intercepting in international waters boats full of Africans hoping to reach Sicily and sending them back to Libya – even though the UN high commissioner for refugees opposed a practice that openly violates the 1951 Geneva convention on the status of refugees.

Look at how his policy of pushing speed cameras moderated breakneck driving.

But the new data underscores the polarizing impact of the central bank's policy of pushing down interest rates on different segments of the American economy.

Overwhelmed regional governments in Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, none of whom recognised the UN's refugee convention, adopted a policy of pushing back boats.

Earlier this week, the Indonesian foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, reaffirmed his country's opposition to the policy of "pushing back the boats" which he said was "not a solution".

Even so, the Fed's policy of pushing vast sums of cash into the economy has shown that monetary-policy options are not exhausted even when interest rates approach zero.

Turkish authorities deny having a policy of pushing Syrians back – and it is unclear whether Turkish border guards fired knowingly at refugees or whether they acted for security reasons in a region where Isis has tried to gain a foothold.

"The missed chancellor's majority is a clear sign that even if one wants to be a good colleague, even her party colleagues do not agree with her government's policy of pushing these packages through Parliament," said Manuel Becker, a political scientist at the University of Bonn.

For many of us antiwar demonstrators who foresaw the bloody events unleashed by the pre-emptive war on Iraq, Vali Nasr's comment (Op-Ed, Feb. 23) that "the American policy of pushing the Shiites to compromise with Sunnis will only backfire" is a reminder of the monumental mistake made by our government.