Sentence examples for policy preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Former and current colleagues say that over the decades Heywood has acquired his own policy preoccupations – deregulating the economy, improving British competitiveness, updating the welfare system – and that he prefers working for reforming governments.

Traditional U.S. Middle East policy preoccupations, such as the Arab-Israeli peace process, were relegated to the sidelines.

And while experts say Xi has no interest in getting his hands dirty in areas like policing and security — traditionally U.S. foreign policy preoccupations — he does intend to "shape the global order" to better suit China's interests.

His high-profile trip fits neatly into his foreign-policy preoccupations.Syrian state television has been full of the goings-on in Tehran, but one of its channels this week took time to show a historical film that pits oppressed Arabs against Turkish tyrants.

For another, she has for decades scrutinised torture as an instrument of state-sanctioned policy, a preoccupation that grew out of her 1985 monograph The Body in Pain.

In some ways it's surprising to find that the debate about autonomy and accountability was active nearly 40 years ago, developing into what has become a policy-makers' preoccupation.

In 1997, as now, American monetary policy was a preoccupation.

Still, policy by personal preoccupation is a dangerous game.

First, just as Jimmy Carter came into office hoping to end the cold war and move US foreign policy off its preoccupation with the Soviet threat, Barack Obama came into office hoping to downgrade the conflict formerly known as the war on terror.

The preoccupation of economists on the burden of the disease joined the policies and caregivers preoccupations.

THE vexed issue of voting rights for prisoners combines two of the Conservative Party's main preoccupations: penal policy and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).