Sentence examples for policy upon from inspiring English sources

The White House is considered irresolute on Guantánamo, lacking the force or the desire to impose a coherent policy upon the bureaucracy.

Soon after her first stint in jail, suffragettes in Great Britain adopted a policy upon their arrests of immediately beginning a hunger strike.

Unsurprisingly, given the way he was – in his own words – "poleaxed" as opposition leader for trying to force his views on climate policy upon the sceptics in his party, his first priority will be to settle his own team down.

They should stop lobbying for detailed economic policies like progressive tax rates, higher minimum wage and, presumably, the expansion of health care — "matters of public policy upon which Gospel principles by themselves do not resolve differences of opinion among reasonable and well-informed people of good will," as George put it.

Because Dutch local governments enjoy autonomous decision-making powers, central government could not impose the adoption of predefined top-down climate policy upon them.

For the illustrations in the figure, we assume round-robin as the underlying BS scheduling policy upon which threshold testing is applied.

A spokeswoman for the State Insurance Department said the agency would put the regulations into effect immediately, meaning that the stricter rules would apply to all newly written policies and to existing policies upon their renewal.

Cheng said he had felt "ostracised and isolated" by supporters of One Nation's anti-immigration policies upon his family's arrival in Australia from Hong Kong in the 1990s.

Other policies upon which we are agreed will further support job creation and green investment, such as work programmes for the unemployed and a green deal for energy efficiency investment.

The SNP and Plaid Cymru, who are not on the ballot in 80% of the UK and whose voters already enjoy privileges the English don't, ranging from free NHS prescriptions to free university education, are using their MPs to help the prime minister impose his policies upon a nation that did not elect him, or them.

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the impact of various technological policies upon firms' innovative behaviour.