Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] policy " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , abortion had ceased to be a clear-cut electoral asset because younger and more affluent voters had become concerned that the Supreme Court would criminalize it , and the ending of the Cold War had undermined the traditional Republican issue of a strong defence policy . |
| 2 | For example , in the UK the formation of financial conglomerates offering a full range of financial services was a response by market participants to embrace market forces rather than the product of a specific government policy . |
| 3 | Those schools which were not satisfied were asked to give examples of the constraints which limited provision and , apart from time , those most commonly mentioned in the primary sector related to the low priority given to health education when compared with other developments , and to the lack of a specific school policy . |
| 4 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 5 | 17.71 Schools should formulate marking guidelines , as one feature of a cross-curricular language policy . |
| 6 | The having adoption of a strategic exceptions policy is an invitation for many possible major developments to be to ride on the back of the strategic in exceptions policies and to argue that they come within in . |
| 7 | Erm obviously the borough council strongly advocates the the principle of a strategic exceptions policy and I think there there is some difference between what Professor Lock is advocating and what the borough council is advocating . |
| 8 | Before I finish I I just wonder whether I could put one point to the county and that 's whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan , they would allow the borough council to include the type of policy we 're seeking in our district wide local plan bearing in mind that some of the considerations in involved are of a strategic nature . |
| 9 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 10 | Cost , or more precisely the economies of scale in service and housing provision , is another major argument proposed in favour of a selected settlement policy . |
| 11 | In common with many other Latin American countries , it was the weakness of technical and administrative institutions in charge of peasant agriculture that was partly to blame for the failure of a rural development policy . |
| 12 | the formulation and general application of a unified Defence policy relating to the Armed Forces of the Crown as a whole and their requirements . |
| 13 | In September 1990 the Central Bank announced the introduction with effect from Oct. 1 of a new exchange-rate policy under which the escudo would be linked to a basket of five European currencies ( German , Spanish , French , UK and Italian ) rather than to those of 13 major trading partners as previously . |
| 14 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an industrial tribunal 's decision that dismissals were unfair where the employees concerned were dismissed for breach of a new management policy of which they were unaware ( see Royal Mail Glasgow v Fleming and Another [ 1992 ] 459 IRLIB 10 ) . |
| 15 | Could it be a coincidence that this huge increase came after the formation of a new police policy designed to encourage victims of violence to report ? |
| 16 | This has been widely criticised as failing to provide for the development of a coherent energy policy to take account of environmental and other considerations such as events in the Gulf . |
| 17 | The Economist sensibly saw an electricity tax as a way of resolving this problem , but , with the Conservative opposition ready to taunt the Government with unfairly raising prices , the prospects of a rational price policy were not good . |
| 18 | Those parts of the drying system recently installed will be retained with the new sections being added as part of a long term policy of improvements . |
| 19 | The development of a separate manpower policy agency seems to have been carried out with all these motives in minds The University Grants Committee has been seen as serving the second and third purposes . |
| 20 | Nor is it surprising that the HAS , on their visit to Powick in 1985 , recognized that the lack of a mass resettlement policy at the hospital was one of the demonstration project 's principal shortcomings . |
| 21 | An article entitled The Covert French Connection by Richard Ullman published in Foreign Policy in mid-1989 revealed the existence of a secret US policy to assist France in the development of an effective strike force . |
| 22 | The Saatchis are yesterday 's men ; Next has shed George Davis and its allure and this has been an end of year without bonuses for the City as it seeks to operate within the constraints of a tight credit policy and high interest rates . |
| 23 | This was in part the outcome of a deliberate government policy to avoid losing professionals and industrialists . |
| 24 | The German authorities want , in certain sensitive sectors such as defence and electronics , to retain a final sanction over mergers , which would work against the spirit of a single Euromerger policy . |
| 25 | An objective duty to balance potentially conflicting interests would present the courts with a near-impossible task and hence it is impracticable to impose one : not only would the court need to assess the likely impact on each group of a contested business policy , both in the short and long term , but also it would have to evaluate the policy in accordance with a theory which stipulated when one set of interests should prevail over the others . |
| 26 | And Article J.4 says : ‘ The common foreign and security policy shall include all questions related to the security of the Union , including the eventual framing of a common defence policy . ’ |
| 27 | On 31 July 1992 , the Commission declared : ‘ Specific and binding assurances from Sweden should be sought with regard to her political commitments and legal capacity to fulfil the obligations … ( on ) the eventual framing of a common defence policy . ’ |
| 28 | Opening provisions of the Treaty on European Union stated that the Union should assert its identity on the international scene " through the implementation of a common foreign and security policy which shall include the eventual framing of a common defence policy " . |
| 29 | As well as the absence of a common opposition policy for home rule making such pacts unachievable , Mr Wallace is anxious that the party does not lose sight of its objective of a federal United Kingdom . |
| 30 | That approach is an element in the development of a common security policy . |