Sentence examples for softly policy from inspiring English sources

Such as the Government's "softly, softly" policy towards the City and the scrapping of the banking levy in favour of a more palatable profit tax.

South Korea - which has previously pursued a softly softly policy with its bellicose neighbour - warned that the test could mark the end of engagement efforts, which culminated with a landmark summit between Kim Jong-il and South Korea's then-president, Kim Dae-jung, in 2000.

As well as keeping rates higher than they may otherwise be, the RBA has tried to tackle the house price problem with its fellow regulators ostensibly through a softly-softly policy.

Luka Modric's sleight of foot and the ice-cold finish of Rafael van der Vaart plunged the softly-softly, hog-the-ball Internazionale policy into a sudden crisis of confidence.

At huge rallies, the former cricketer claims Mr Sharif stole last year's election and says he will bring the government down.Mr Sharif's political problems have been compounded by the generals' efforts to undermine his policy of dealing softly-softly with the Pakistani Taliban.

New Acropolis Museum officials seem to have been following a policy of speaking softly and carrying a big museum, as Museum Director Dimitrios Pandermalis told Newseek, "We are presenting in a visual way, what was, to this point, a verbal discussion".

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

Quoting an African proverb, Roosevelt claimed that the right way to conduct foreign policy was to "speak softly and carry a big stick".

"The Ford Administration," he said softly, "has had no clear energy policy".

"I promise you, the president has a big stick," Biden said, after quoting President Teddy Roosevelt's enduring foreign policy advice to "speak softly and carry a big stick".

Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon turned politician, spoke softly, rarely pausing to sully his presentation with actual policy details.