Sentence examples for policy preferred from inspiring English sources

A wiser approach might be to adopt the policy preferred by the two other countries engaged in the most profitable of the drug trades.

The policy preferred by the middle income group remains the only majority winner because there is disagreement within the low income group, between the upper part and the rest of the group, and within the high income group, between the lower part and the rest, respectively.

The poll found a partisan divide, with a no-gun policy preferred by Democrats 72percentto19percentcent, and by independents 48percentto34percentcent.

Instead senior Treasury officials were strongly opposed to the policy, preferring a rise in VAT.

It compiled a list showing that most of the officials who shape public education policy prefer to send their own children to private schools.

Is he describing himself when he writes: "Sadly, contemporary intellectuals have shown remarkably little informed interest in the nitty-gritty of public policy, preferring to intervene or protest in ethically-defined topics where the choices seem clearer"?

On the left, Tony Judt complains that intellectuals "have shown remarkably little informed interest in the nitty-gritty of public policy, preferring to intervene or protest on ethically defined topics where the choices seem clearer".

Mr. Howard skirted these divisions on Thursday and did not dwell on foreign policy, preferring to focus on a domestic promise of improved public services and what he called "a new kind of politics" to revive trust in the Conservatives.

If it comes to a bidding war for water with California, these states know they lack the clout (not least in Congress) to compete; if their water were marketed, they reckon, they would never see it again.Those who like the new policy prefer to call it "water banking".

Goldberg, who has made a study of the president's foreign policy, prefers to call Obama a "Hobbesian optimist", someone who thinks the world is a messy and violent place, but that most people are better than they are bad, they want to make it better, to get their kids an education, improve their lives.

By contrast, Europe is already suffering enormous pain because the people setting economic policy prefer morality tales to economic reality.