(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.
Promissory
Definition:
(a.) Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bruton said that an EU deal on the Anglo Irish "promissory notes" was an important element in the overall recovery plan not just for Ireland but for Europe as a whole.
(2) Novo would sit next to him on the bus and “inhale, with a retrospective and promissory delight, the emanations of gasoline next to his body”.
(3) Johnjoe McFadden correctly points out that molecular genetics has yet to deliver on its expensive promissory notes ( Genes?
(4) After Ireland secured a deal on the so-called promissory notes to bondholders of the defunct Anglo Irish Bank, some have been urging Enda Kenny and his coalition partners to spend the saved €1bn on capital building projects to help stimulate domestic demand in the republic.
(5) Such changes would also be difficult to cover through what would effectively be a promissory note concerning post-referendum changes to labour and social legislation.
(6) He pursues this theme by placing together some of Morris's hand-carved wood blocks with the intricately self-printed promissory notes and share certificates in which Russian wealth was hastily divided in 1992.
(7) That will disappoint Dublin, which has long been pleading for a reduction in the interest rate it is being forced to pay on the "promissory notes" issued to rescue its banking sector.
(8) On 19 October 1929, just five days before the first stock market crash and 10 days before Black Tuesday, Scott Fitzgerald published a now-forgotten story called "The Swimmers," about an American working for the ironically named Promissory Trust Bank, and his realisation that American ideals have been corrupted by money.
(9) Martin Luther King spoke about the promissory note of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the very tenets this country was built on.
(10) Lenovo will pay $660m in cash, $750m in Lenovo shares, plus a $1.5bn three-year promissory note.
(11) There are so many big fundamental things happening that a promissory note of some kind to Britain may well finish up not being honoured.
(12) "That's why the €3.1bn promissory note payment due to be paid to Anglo Irish Bank on Monday is not being paid but is being replaced by long-term government bonds and the wider negotiations will continue."
(13) The Irish government, and in particular the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, have consistently claimed that fellow EU states, notably Germany, have promised funds to reduce the costs of repaying the so-called Anglo "promissory notes".