Example sentences of "its policy " in BNC.

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1 When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide .
2 It would be able to ‘ require each government department to review its policies , practices , and existing and proposed legislation ’ .
3 Oskar Lafontaine , the SPD leader in the Saarland , has argued vociferously that a modern mass party like the SPD could not afford to have its policies confined to the narrow interests of employed industrial workers .
4 It therefore comes ill from this Government to appeal for people to accept greater obligation to each other , when its policies have accelerated the decline of mutuality and neighbourliness .
5 For once attention could be focused not on its divisions , but on its policies .
6 Government was a major actor through its policies in the public sector , periodic controls on prices and incomes , legislation on industrial relations , policies for regional aid , and the location of firms and trade .
7 By 1989 Labour had shifted its policies on many of these issues .
8 Thus the Treasury faced little opposition to its policies on the basis that the sterling area was in any way harmful to the interests of the colonies .
9 In retrospect , it appears that Senghor 's strategy was first to reconfirm that his party and its policies continued to have support from the Senegalese people , by giving them real alternatives , and then to enable a young and clearly competent successor to take over the leadership of both the party and the government .
10 And in addition , since the writer disassociates herself and most ‘ caring and considerate people ’ from the people who caused Zahira 's experiences , it suggests that nothing need be done to change the set-up which resulted in her tragic experience , that citizens whose government is racist and oppressive are in no way responsible for its policies .
11 ‘ Of course , ’ the Pastor said , ‘ of course , the State may properly demand our obedience in many matters : obeying its laws — if the laws are just ; making us pay taxes — if the taxes are properly spent ; supporting its policies — if the policies are wise .
12 The effortless victory followed an occasionally rowdy five-hour debate in which Congress speakers taunted the new government for its dependence on other parties , and for alleged inability to spell out its policies .
13 For years the Labour party has been the victim of the City 's fears of its policies .
14 It is unsure of its policies , and has been slow to recruit members and persuade them that the time for talks has come .
15 It meant that the industry had to justify , under cross-examination , its policies .
16 Moreover , the Labour Party does not seek a mandate for its policies from the Northern Ireland electorate .
17 Yet unemployment undoubtedly helped to speed up the Liberal decline and Labour rise since it highlighted the rigidity of the immediate post-war Liberal Party which was clearly unwilling to adapt its policies and ideas on free trade to the new demands of the age .
18 Indeed , according to Clement MacIntyre , the Conservative Party did change the orientation of its policies between 1922 and 1931 :
19 The message was clear , the Conservative Party would have to broaden its policies in order to attract the newly enfranchised working-class voter and remain in power .
20 This meant that most Liberals remained resolutely opposed to the idea that the Liberal Party had to change its policies to fit the new problems facing society .
21 But the National government was locked on course for appeasement and , with the parliamentary majority which it enjoyed , there seems little doubt that even a powerful political campaign by the Labour Party , in league with other anti-fascist groups , could have changed its policies .
22 It came in a memorandum with a covering letter from McFarlane ; the premise was that unless the United States changed its policies towards Iran , America 's position in Tehran would never improve .
23 The only difference between its policies and those of CND proper is that it does not campaign directly for Britain 's withdrawal from Nato .
24 Labour may have stolen England 's emblem , but its policies do n't smell of roses .
25 It had changed half its policies , modernised its machine , replaced two leaders .
26 It is a cruel irony that the man who has done most to reform the party and its policies , taking it to within a whisker of power , should be blamed for its failure to make the final leap to power .
27 Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s .
28 Thus , the Cambridge Board had secured resources to begin the development of its policies for the regional provision of adult education prior to the introduction of the 1932 Regulations .
29 This time , the Labour party had smoothed most of the inconsistencies and hesitations from its policies for secondary schools : thirteen years of loyal opposition had given them plenty of time and motivation to do that .
30 Part of this ambiguity , as outlined above , resulted from the Government 's strenuous efforts to deny any link between its policies and the outbreak of violence and disorder .
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