Sentence examples for sum policy from inspiring English sources

In sum, policy makers in the NHS hoped that their efforts to encourage patient choice would create quality competition between hospitals in England, which would prompt providers to improve their clinical performance (Department of Health, 2004).

Even if Saudi-Iran relations continue to deteriorate over the next four years, Rouhani will ensure that Tehran's offer to negotiate remains on the table because his team has long acknowledged what the Saudis are unwilling or unable to: zero-sum policies benefit no one, and no country can truly be a regional power unless its neighbors are willing to accept its power.

Figure 4 presents the idea of the path distance sum (PDS) policy, and Algorithm 2 illustrates its main steps.

In sum, transport policies are more effective in reducing cars than planning strategies.

In a move designed to increase the UK's supply of donor eggs, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has recently agreed to a fixed-sum compensation policy for donors "which better reflects their expenses" and inconvenience.

In sum, the policies of both expedited and parallel track restrict access to investigational treatments in order to gain scientific knowledge for patients in the future.

It is therefore essential to be able to cry foul when missing policies, misguided policies, or the sum total of policies, work against sustainable development.

And with a worldwide shortage of aggregate demand, there will be a strong temptation for countries to adopt zero-sum protectionist policies in 2012 to keep demand at home and to block access to their markets.

In my home state of Vermont, we have accomplished universal health care for children younger than 18 and real insurance reform--which not only bans discrimination against preexisting conditions but also prevents insurers from charging outrageous sums for policies as a way of keeping out high-risk people.

It is "an East Coast person's" view that a candidate is the sum of his policy positions, she said.

In Australia, the competing political visions about how to deal with the end of the mining boom sum up the policy divide.