Sentence examples for the official thinking from inspiring English sources

This was the official thinking.

The official thinking here is that Israeli jets are keeping the Egyptians on the defensive.

No way, the official thinking goes; the safest thing is to hold the line and not back down.

Hence the subsidy scheme: get peasants to spend, goes the official thinking, and the country's ailing export industries will find a vast new market.

But since these are very far from the official thinking of any big political party, his book is most valuable as a window on state education today for those whose school days are long over.

Mr Gusinsky's media empire would be a logical place to start; he built it thanks to political connections, backed the wrong side, and now should pay the penalty, goes the official thinking.

"Along the spectrum of politics, some people are inscrutable, unpredictable and uncompromising," he said of the officials' thinking.

In the process, official thinking went, all cash would become accounted for, and those who had been evading taxes would either have to stomach huge losses or declare their assets and pay major penalties.

His books The Common Curriculum (1978) and Regenerating the Curriculum (1979) were fully argued ripostes to the crudity of official thinking following the "great debate" on education initiated by a speech at Ruskin College, Oxford, by the prime minister, James Callaghan, in October 1976.

The standard of official thinking on the subject is feeble.

When David Cameron gave a speech in 2011 denouncing the "failure of multiculturalism" on the same day that the EDL rallied in Luton, he illustrated the subtle continuity between official thinking and the far-right.