Sentence examples for policy was down from inspiring English sources

In the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, Obama's rating on foreign policy was down five points".

The average  quote for a combined policy was down 3 per cent over the last three months of 2013 to £165 and down 8.5 per cent over the year.

Friends of the Earth's West Midlands campaigner, Chris Crean, said the pricing policy was down to a controversial deal drawn up during the 1980s by the Conservative transport secretary, Cecil Parkinson, who agreed that a single company would build, maintain and collect tolls on the road for 53 years.

That they can veto good policy is down to the politics of fiscal policy, not the economics".

"One of my jobs is to brief ministers very intensively and make sure they know what the government's policy is, down to the last detail".

For Gorka (who cannot read or understand Arabic), the failure of US antiterrorism policy is down to its refusal to see that terrorism isn't a product of history and circumstance (and decades of US-Saudi funding for right-wing religious extremists, and decades of Western wars and coups in the Islamic world).

So far this fiscal year sales of new policies are down by a fifth or so on the previous year.In response the insurance firms have done all of the obvious stuff.

Sales of new policies were down an estimated 5percentt for the entire life insurance industry last year, industry analysts said, as people continued to concentrate on accumulating money for retirement with annuities and mutual funds.

According to Harry Shapiro, a journalist specializing in drug use and addiction, the government's reluctance to follow other countries' decriminalization policies is down to the lack of political gain that would come from it.

The departure from policy was put down to a mistake by Shorten.

Same-sex marriage was briefly legalized in California until the policy was struck down in 2008.