Example sentences of "policy and [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , he or she will have to deal with questions from members of Parliament about the policies and activities of the department . |
| 2 | The Arab League was founded in March 1945 with the aim of strengthening the close ties between sovereign Arab states in order to co-ordinate their policies and activities for the common good of the Arab world . |
| 3 | Many structure plans are being ‘ rolled forward ’ to end in 1996 and there could well be draft policies and proposals in the roll-forward documents . |
| 4 | Yet your article appeared during the spring meetings in Washington of the two institutions at which finance minister after finance minister endorsed the policies and operations of the World Bank . |
| 5 | The miners , the printers and the workers at GCHQ ( Government Communications Headquarters ) have all been defeated , marking a turning point in the policies and strategies of the union movement as a whole . |
| 6 | We have noted in Chapter 2 that politicians bring values , policies and priorities to the process and these will , of course , influence the process . |
| 7 | While this has only relatively recently become widely influential , affecting policies and services across the board and not just in the formal educational sphere , Ryan and Thomas ( 1987 ) point out its longer history . |
| 8 | The constitutional authorities see a transmission of orders from the many to the controlling few in the government whereby votes inserted at one end of the system become popular public policies and laws at the other . |
| 9 | The policies and attitudes of the corporations have , moreover , been thrown into sharp focus by the emergence of alternative approaches to wide-scale urban regeneration , which have been promoted elsewhere in the UK , notably in Scotland . |
| 10 | The policies and attitudes of the autocracy virtually ruled out the emergence of a moderate , reformist labour movement . |
| 11 | The three big economies are at different stages of the economic cycle : while America is struggling with recession , Japan and Germany are still fighting inflation , giving rise to differences in interest-rate policies and attitudes towards the risk of inflation . |
| 12 | Concurrently with his rural work , Whiteley became a prominent member of the Ipswich branch and his support of some of its antipathetic policies and attitudes towards the District distanced him somewhat from Wash , Pateman and Shearman , who became District Vice-Chairman in 1931 . |
| 13 | The IT Security Advisory Group ( ITSAG ) was established by the DTI a year ago to obtain strategic advice from industry and commerce on the Department 's policies and programmes in the field of IT security . |
| 14 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank all members for supporting the Scottish Council in 1989/90 and I look forward to your continuing , active involvement in our policies and programmes in the future . |
| 15 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank all members for their loyal commitment to the Scottish Council in 1991 and I look forward to their continuing , active involvement in our policies and programmes in the future . |
| 16 | Finally , these countries made considerable concessions to the policies and institutions of the EEC and the Governments of the Six , and were allowed to join in 1972 following permission granted by the French people in a referendum , and with membership subject to parliamentary assent in each of the applicant states . |
| 17 | After the shadowing , regular visits began by all advisers to observe subject teachers at work and to look into the policies and procedures of the school . |
| 18 | Reports from each department — including staffing , aims and objectives , assessment of pupils , examination results , accommodation , capitation , resources and policies and procedures within the department . |
| 19 | When a mother is forced to deprive her children of food , clothing and shoes , the Minister must explain the employment policies and successes of the Government , because we have yet to hear them . |
| 20 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 21 | Through this chain of dependency , it is argued , the state could exercise control over the policies and practices of the Commercial Banks , and through them Japan 's leading firms . |
| 22 | However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime . |
| 23 | The most striking change was the presence of a manual which describes policies and practices of the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress , offers advice on classing difficult areas and explains how to choose between related numbers . |
| 24 | While a number of useful studies have been made of changes in particular fields , there has been no detailed and comprehensive review of all the changing assumptions , policies and practices of the last 40 years . |
| 25 | It examines the policies and practices of the European Broadcasting Union , the Commission of the European Communities and of the Council of Europe and the effects of regulatory change in Europe on public service broadcasters . |
| 26 | In particular , the Khmer Rouge delegation had strongly objected to demands by the Phnom Penh government and the Vietnamese delegation that a sentence be included in the final statement referring to the " non-return of the genocidal policies and practices of the Pol Pot [ Khmer Rouge ] regime " . |
| 27 | The 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey provides an excellent opportunity to review current policies and practices in the field and to study changes which have taken place since the last survey in 1980 . |
| 28 | The aim of the project is to obtain basic information about employers ' policies and practices in the recruitment and management of the work-force , and in particular to establish how far such policies and practices have changed in recent years . |
| 29 | This project will explore the strategies deployed by three institutions committed to developing more equitable staff policies and practices in the hope that illumination of particular change contexts will be of value to other institutions wishing to make similar changes . |
| 30 | Of the many changes proposed in this review ( which is still under discussion by the Council of Ministers ) , several are designed to alter policies and aids in the LFAs . |