Sentence examples for worldly policy from inspiring English sources
"The principles of an illiberal age," he wrote, "indicated the very course which must have been pursued by worldly policy and enlightened wisdom".
Early calls for reform grew out of criticism of the worldly attitudes and policies of the Renaissance popes and many of the clergy.
They have happily dedicated themselves to figuring out what kinds of reform are possible within the constraints of corporate and interest-group lobbying, ideological and partisan divisions, and America's kludgey, creaking 220-year-old machinery of government.And they're not the first such set of moderate, worldly-wise liberal policy wonks to arrive in Washington.
Saudi kings and princes have been worldly in their foreign policy and business dealings, sometimes ostentatiously corrupt in their personal lives and unyieldingly hostile to political debate and representative institutions.
But the policy seemed other-worldly, as the likely value of the voucher was less than the fees at any existing private school.
This policy of treating religious houses as worldly possessions represents a change from the early eighth century, when many charters showed the foundation and endowment of small minsters, rather than the assignment of those lands to laypeople.
What one feels, in talking to the people who are likely to determine foreign policy in the Bush administration, is a worldly pragmatism but also a preoccupation with threat, a suspiciousness about negotiations, a willingness to go it alone.
He continued to pursue foreign policies that reflected the prevailing spirit of a more independent, worldly Mexico.
For some, this orientation is philosophically consistent with renouncing worldly concerns in order to attain transcendence incongruous with worrying about campaign coffers or quibbling over policy particulars.
Though the Iraq war is arguably the most significant act of American foreign policy in decades, it is often invisible at home — even here, among those with a worldly conscience and resources to give.
