Sentence examples for settling policy from inspiring English sources

Ms Merkel seems unable even to make deals with her own party's powerful state premiers, some of whom seem more interested in replacing her than in settling policy differences.

But she is being denied visitors.In this section After SARS Friendly giants Payback time An uphill struggle In Insein Short-lived, but still a mutiny A central problem ReprintsPossibly by design, the immediate fate of Miss Suu Kyi and her supporters seems to be distracting some outsiders from settling policy on Myanmar for the longer term.

The object of this very unusual political weapon has been much discussed; whereas some ancient writers considered it as a way of preventing a revival of the Peisistratid tyranny (hardly a real threat after 490), modern scholars see it as a device for settling policy disputes that is, as a kind of ad hominem referendum.

"The tax rate is settled policy.

The 12.5% tax rate is settled policy.

Farage said he favoured greater use of national referendums to settle policy disputes.

The answer, I believe, must be that national prohibition is a settled policy.

The SNP has a settled policy of not voting on "English" laws, for it is an openly separatist party.

Getting drawn into a prematurely achieved consensus is a danger of Whitehall life... Once the minister had coalesced, people said there was a settled policy.

But Prescott said this was "silly", and that she had no right, as interim leader, to settle policy on such an important issue.

He said he still hoped that once the dust settled, policy makers from all parts of the spectrum might find merit in the proposal.