Example sentences of "a [adj] approach to " in BNC.

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1 The RCM prided itself on a broad-minded approach to religion This suited the collective temperament of the ruling body , which was drawn largely from the liberal branch of Judaism , and made sense in terms of practical politics .
2 The first of these approaches has resulted in a programme called the ‘ Management Charter Initiative ’ , which is currently planning a nationwide training initiative with a highly flexible approach — bringing together in-house provision with higher education provision and suggesting a laddered approach to management development throughout the whole careers of those involved .
3 This chapter suggests a three-stage approach to promoting history in our schools .
4 He took a venturesome approach to the standard operas , bringing in directors like Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , and initiated a vigorous policy of commissioning new works .
5 The letters themselves began with a private approach to Cecil by William Kirkcaldy of Grange ; then came one from five Scottish Protestants , Argyll , lord James and others , written on 19 July , and remarkable for its spelling , its rhetorical power , and its refusal to state positively what was wanted .
6 There was some indication , too , that the child who was showing signs of a helpless approach to life and one or more symptoms of childhood disturbance ( truanting , bedwetting , stealing , fearfulness and so on ) as well as experiencing a lack of care was especially likely to be depressed in adulthood ( Harris et al. , 1987c ) .
7 A helpless approach to life and a low sense of self-esteem are two factors which have been suggested as being associated with a raised risk of depression following threatening life events ( see chapter 4 ) .
8 We outline a possible approach to the problem in the next section and in Chapter 3 .
9 In the past , Saucony has always had a low-key approach to cutting edge technology .
10 This list is of vital importance , for it gives a broad approach to the curriculum which can unite the profession .
11 Some judges and academic authorities favour a narrow and some a broad approach to the meaning of the term .
12 The first three sections will look take a broad approach to the subject :
13 The emphasis here on the length of time over which sound appraisal is built up , and the linking of self-evaluation with evaluation by other people , points to a broad approach to appraisal .
14 In summary there is a need for a unified approach to school roll forecasting based on demographic data augmented by local information .
15 As services move to multiple locations in the community , the need for a unified approach to establishing and monitoring standards on a national scale becomes even more pressing .
16 This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer .
17 However medical audit should be seen as part of a total approach to quality even if in reality it is often separated out .
18 It is Weber 's emphasis on the state 's monopoly of the legitimate use of violence , that , it seems to me , gives overtones of coercion which encourage a narrow approach to the state in contemporary Japan .
19 What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem .
20 The potential of a possible-world approach to fiction is successfully demonstrated in a typology of genres based on the nature of the accessibility relations between the actual world and the worlds functioning as actual in the universes projected by different types of texts ( Chapter 2 ) .
21 Botany today comprises a multi-disciplinary approach to all aspects of plant science .
22 The British police have expressed grave worries in recent months at the failure to develop a coordinated approach to the security problems arising from the establishment of the Single European Market and the opening of the Channel Tunnel .
23 If , as the government intends , the structure plan system is abolished in favour of ‘ advice ’ from county councils , the chances of a coordinated approach to Tunnel-related development are even more remote .
24 There is a lack of systematic research into children in care , and an even more noticeable absence of a coordinated approach to dissemination of research once completed .
25 Even if a coordinated approach to transition is difficult to achieve it should be possible for all concerned to agree a broad range of aims for transition .
26 After the war , city plans promised reform through housing programmes and a coordinated approach to land-use planning .
27 The American people and the Congress would not support an aid program which did not show a coordinated approach to Western European unity . "
28 The British Library is beginning to consider its digitisation programme , and it is important to ensure a coordinated approach to choice of material to be digitised , including that of the major research libraries .
29 Chamorro favoured a measured approach to the piñata issue and an " integral solution " , which would promote national reconciliation rather than further alienating the Sandinistas , whose 39 delegates had boycotted the National Assembly " indefinitely " in June over the affair [ see ibid ] .
30 Right , President , and a measured approach to responsibilities and trust that is placed in you .
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