Sentence examples for wretched policy from inspiring English sources

If this is about to happen, it will be the first moderately humane thing the government has done in this wretched policy space.

Tony Blair insisted today that Britain had to give up the "wretched policy of apology" for the allies' action in Iraq.

The Big Mo, by Mark Roeder (Virgin, £11.99) Coincidentally, Tony Blair has recently complained of "a wretched policy of apology", and Bob Diamond of Barclays last month looked at his watch and declared: "The time for apologies is over".

Perhaps mindful of the criticism he himself has endured over Iraq, he said the West should abandon what he called "the wretched policy of apology" for the wrongs that beset the Muslim world, and focus on their true cause — Islamic extremism and its deep-rooted hostility to the West.

If the Administration had not inaugurated this wretched policy there, if it had not extended this general pardon to these Mormon traitors, the results would not have been as now we see them". The Judge then read quite a number of extracts from Mormon sermons, in proof of his assertion as to the doctrines of the Church in Utah.

One can believe that the removal of external threats in the form of George W Bush and his wretched and failed confrontational policies has been a factor in the opening up of the atmosphere prior to the elections.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed last year to close Guantánamo because of its wretched impact on American foreign policy.

Within this positive context, however, there is a major source of regret, and I am sorry to have to strike a negative tone here: there is a risk that the European Union could take a distinct step backwards in sectors which affect its political, social and economic life, the internal market in particular, trade policy and the wretched problem of employment which we are trying so hard to combat.

But the Dalai Lama visa saga comes towards the end of a wretched year for South African foreign policy.

Extending reservations to companies, they argue, would therefore safeguard an existing policy of promoting the Hindu wretched.

CHARGES LOSS OF MILLIONS Declares He Found the State's Plant in "Wretched Condition" From Pay-as-You-Go Policy.