What's the difference between policies and uprising?

Policies


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of 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.

Uprising


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
  • (n.) An insurrection; a popular revolt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are already witnessing a wholly understandable uprising of protest.
  • (2) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
  • (3) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
  • (4) A six-month uprising by the rebel group M23, led by war crimes suspect Bosco "the Terminator" Ntaganda, has caused fresh turmoil in eastern Congo and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
  • (5) The timing of the move against the foreign workers comes as a further blow to the reform movement in Egypt that has been pushing for real democratic change in the wake of last year's popular uprising against Mubarak.
  • (6) The Arabic term "intifada" means "shaking off" or "uprising" and first entered popular usage during the 1987 Palestinian rebellion against Israel.
  • (7) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
  • (8) Public debate over the problem intensified after the 2011 uprising, with activists and lawyers saying they see progress in transforming attitudes and more harassers being jailed.
  • (9) Several dozen former Gaddafi administration officials arrested for war crimes in recent weeks were sprung from jail during the uprising.
  • (10) In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.
  • (11) One was of Isa Boljetini, an Albanian nationalist who led uprisings against the Ottomans and the Serbs in 1912 and 1913.
  • (12) Despite the casualties, and despite the strong cards held by the Israelis, many Palestinians are convinced that the uprising will succeed in shifting Israel's position.
  • (13) Offering few details, Vasyl Krutov told a news conference: “There is gunfire and clashes around Kramatorsk … what we are facing in the Donetsk region and in the eastern regions is not just some kind of short-lived uprising, it is in fact a war”.
  • (14) According to officials, the turnout was a respectable 38.6% – higher than the 33% who voted in a referendum during Morsi's tenure, but lower than the 41.9% who turned out in a similar poll following Egypt's 2011 uprising.
  • (15) The Obama administration was in the forefront of efforts to mobilise international diplomatic support for the Libyan rebels as the uprising began to unfold, backing multilateral sanctions in concert with the EU and lobbying Arab leaders who had no reason to love Gaddafi.
  • (16) He also stressed Britain's leading role in organising the international response to the uprising that began in March.
  • (17) Russia is challenging everyone and saying there is no alternative to Bashar,” said Hassan Haj Ali, a Syrian army captain who defected after the uprising began in 2011.
  • (18) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."
  • (19) Luis Moreno-Ocampo told reporters at the UN in New York last night there were strong indications that hundreds of women had been raped in the Libyan government clampdown on the popular uprising and that Gaddafi had ordered the violations as a form of punishment.
  • (20) The Tobruk parliament was Libya’s second elected legislature since longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising.

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