Sentence examples for sops from inspiring English sources

Communities such as Enfield have been let down repeatedly over the past three decades by Westminster myopia and by big businesses sucking cash out of their areas and offering only sops of community social responsibility in return.

Salford's derelict quays area had become a dumping ground for Whitehall's pet projects, which were little more than expensive sops to provincial pride.

A prime minister who can sack his attorney general, Dominic Grieve, because the latter believes in the European court of human rights (which has nothing to do with Brussels), and who cannot accept the wise advice of such an elder statesman as Kenneth Clarke, is giving too many sops to the Eurosceptic Cerberus that is the Tory right wing.

The developing world has been unconvinced by the argument that these sops to protectionist lobbies were a price worth paying for "fast-track" presidential authority to negotiate trade agreements.

But Benedict's proposal for discerning the difference between healthy markets and pathological ones is uncompromising and offers no sops to the secular.

These sops would expand the production of tradable goods above what the market would dictate.

The result is incoherent policies: long-term plans aimed at conserving energy and reducing emissions, undermined by short-term sops to drivers.In this section The battle of hope and experience A choice of remedies Changing the rules The best of enemies Which war?

The party's right grumbles about the prime minister's policy sops to his Lib Dem coalition partners.

Indeed, were she a more cynical sort of politician, prepared to offer sops to special interests and lobbies, she might now be forming a centre-right government on her own, instead of presiding over a tortuous effort to construct a left-right coalition.Ms Merkel's personal qualities, and her steady principles, are all welcome as far as they go.

The sops being thrown their way, such as Mr Holder's investigation, may calm their ire for a while.

The fine print was specified in standard operating procedures (SOPs).