(a.) Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lebedev said it would be "impolite" for him to think about any influence on British politics.
(2) 2) Subjects who received impolite messages showed positive attitude change toward computers despite the impolite messages.
(3) But we suppress so much just because it's impolite."
(4) Subjects became aggressive when impolite message were given repeatedly.
(5) But there is also the legendary case of the renowned South Korean director Shin Sang-ok who was actually kidnapped in 1978 from Hong Kong on the orders of Kim Jong-il who wanted him to make films promoting the good name of North Korea — the South Koreans evidently accepted (or thought it impolitic publicly to dispute) Kim’s claim that Shin had come willingly.
(6) To be impolite, it is theft," he said , branding search engines such as Google and Yahoo as "content kleptomaniacs" .
(7) And Gehry has a history of struggles with boards and impolitic comments.
(8) The frontrunner has spent much of the campaign apologising for impolite remarks about neighbours.
(9) But before the night ended, Minaj responded to criticism from the show’s host, Miley Cyrus, who had said in a New York Times interview last week that Minaj’s criticism was impolite and came from a place of jealousy.
(10) "But be punished in a way where people don't feel the managers are strange or weird or impolite people, or people without control."
(11) Taking a mobile phone picture of the emperor or his family is also considered impolite.
(12) I do, partly because it seems ungrateful and impolite not to, and partly because there's nothing else, really, to call oneself while retaining any connection to an original sense of justice.
(13) She declined to say how old she was, deeming it an “impolite question”, saying instead: “If you really need a number then go ahead and make it up based on my photographs”.
(14) Randall’s occasionally impolitic remarks made national headlines such as in 2010 when he referred to the national broadcaster as “Gay-BC”, and again in 2011 when he accused the mining industry of being “pussy -whipped” by Rudd’s successor, Julia Gillard, over the proposed mining tax.
(15) I believe at the end of the day I'll be seen as the 'impolite guy', the one who's aggressive in his words.
(16) But Judt's willingness to voice, as the New York Times recently put it, "impolite truths" brought attacks from fellow intellectuals.
(17) To act otherwise would have been “aggressive” and impolite.
(18) 5.05pm BST 1 min: The Dutch allow Australia to get some early touches at the back without any impolite pressure.
(19) Indeed, while the point of this study was to examine the medical profession's use of placebos, nobody seems impolite enough to point out that there are times when it's the patients' own fault if they end up smarting from a saline injection they didn't need.
(20) Giddings said that although he did not believe he had undermined or personally criticised Welby, he had apologised to the archbishop, who had since told him he had found nothing offensive, discourteous, impolite or disrespectful in his words.
Policy
Definition:
(n.) Civil polity.
(n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.
(n.) The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.
(n.) Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.
(n.) Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
(n.) Motive; object; inducement.
(v. t.) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
(n.) A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
(n.) The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.
(n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(3) A backbench policy advisory group will be established to develop ideas.
(4) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(5) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(6) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
(7) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(8) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(9) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(10) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(11) Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition.
(12) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(13) That means scrapping David Cameron’s unqualified teacher policy, which has produced a 16% increase in the number of unqualified teachers in our schools.
(14) The paper develops a model as a framework for monitoring the course of the program through the policy cycle and recommends that the policy process be considered as dynamic, interactive, and evolutionary.
(15) We have operated within the policy and regulatory framework set out by the Commonwealth government.
(16) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
(17) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(18) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
(19) But it [Help to Buy] is the right policy instrument to deal with a specific problem."
(20) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.