Sentence examples for upon a policy from inspiring English sources

We proclaim our neutralism, but we do not always base it upon a policy of neutrality".

Spurs embarked upon a policy of tying their stars down on long-term deals last year.

During his tour of the Eastern Empire in 131, the Roman emperor Hadrian decided upon a policy of Hellenization to integrate the Jews into the empire.

Conservatives in the GOP had been urging the leadership to make increasing the borrowing limit contingent upon a policy demand, but in the end the party was unable to coalesce around a single proposal.

Al-Muqtafī became caliph in 1136 and soon embarked upon a policy of strengthening his political authority vis-à-vis the Seljuqs, whose princes at the time were feuding among themselves.

They believe that having contributed to the national insurance scheme all their lives, they deserve higher pensions as of right.The irony is that the government believed that it had hit upon a policy which combined Old Labour concern for poverty relief with a New Labour respect for incentives.

The problems attendant upon such a policy are demonstrated by the Belgian municipalities, which had to define burka-wearing in a way that didn't criminalise carnival masks (and it is very hard to see a way of defining the burka that wouldn't incriminate the niqab).

He has, I am told, lit upon David Willetts as a policy guru: a good choice.

Soon after her first stint in jail, suffragettes in Great Britain adopted a policy upon their arrests of immediately beginning a hunger strike.

The two case studies incorporated examination of the impact on the policy development made by research analysts, both inside and outside government, and found it to be 'strongly dependent upon the presence of a policy champion' [ 31].

16 Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency, recently released a handbook designed to guide managers in how to avoid green-washing charges and called upon them to adopt a policy of "radical transparency" in green advertising campaigns.