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policy Noun

— A policy is an official rule or idea that explain how to act in certain situations. The college policy is that teachers may not have any sexual relationship with students. The government is suggesting a significant change in economic policy. In at least one case there was a deliberate policy decision not to involve the police. The policy at the movie theater said we should turn on phones off and be quiet, during the movie.

policy

— noun a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group it was a policy of retribution a politician keeps changing his policies — noun a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation — noun (= insurance) written contract or certificate of insurance you should have read the small print on your policy

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Simple sentences

He had decided on a new policy.

Tom adopted a new policy.

We need to improve the policy.

We should rewrite this policy.

Are you in favor of or against that policy?

We studied the government's economic policy.

Our policy is to build for the future, not the past.

The war resulted from a mistaken policy.

We have to conclude that the policy is a failure.

The policy will only accelerate inflation.

This policy resulted in a great rise in prices.

He argued that the new policy was bound to drive the economy into recession.

This policy is sure to go a long way towards stimulating business.

Prices rose drastically as a result of this policy.

It is hoped that this new policy will create jobs on a large scale.

Your policy is mistaken.

All of the rules must be in line with company policy.

It has been demonstrated in various researches that the private sector has little influence over policy making.

Our insurance policy covers various kinds of damages.

The new birth policy is aimed at achieving zero population growth.

The government had to alter its foreign policy.

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To ensure public policy stays on track.

Not really a huge vote-winner that policy though, is it?

That policy is sexist.

You know something, lady, if you sold life insurance I'd go for a policy in 60 seconds.

Our organizations are opposed to your policy, Mr. Garston.

I don't make it a policy to run around with married women.

I have an accident policy that protects you no matter what happens.

And my papers will continue their present policy of open attack on racketeers and the directors of organized crime who are the really dangerous enemies of society.

This insurance policy, it's my only asset.

I've written on the back of the policy that I want the money paid to Miss Maple.

It involves our foreign policy.

What good is it to teach that honesty is the best policy when all around, they see that dishonesty is a better policy?

While they murder us on our grounds. We're carrying out a military policy designed to guarantee the permanent security of the frontier.

We're trying to build trust with tribes loyal to our country but the encampment policy, which was adopted against the army's advice and gave you land that belonged to the Arabs, is turning the tribes against us and undermining our work.

Your desertion policy would have us all leave within 5 years.

He plans a new Algeria policy, my policy.

Dear friends, here's the man whose works have inspired the Emperor's policy.

Firstly. the Emperor will end the confinement policy.

In any event, it's imperative for His Majesty to come to Algeria to launch his policy.

They show Paris the futility of its abandonment policy.

Degrassi has a policy on nudity, which you've disregarded.

Degrassi also has a policy on equal rights.

This insurance policy provides for your little one and your old age, which will be here in a few weeks.

Lady, if you sold life insurance, I'd go for a policy in 60 seconds.

Dickson, you've got to change your policy.

Drugs deals have been financing dodgy US foreign policy for years.

That's her policy.

And I've always been taught that honesty is the best policy.

I have a little policy for you.

What good is it to teach that honesty is the best policy.. whenallaround,theysee that dishonesty is a better policy?

It might be difficult in view of our policy towards his people.

Then we'll change our policy.

Your policy is worse than a crime. It's a tragic blunder.

Now look, Bruce. Persuade Hildy to do the story and you can write out a fat insurance policy for me.

Walter, how big a policy?

But it's a new policy.

Step down to Lloyd's and take out an insurance policy and it won't cost you more than it did last week when there was no talk of a comet or the world running into one.

News and current affairs

If the policy were extended to third-country firms, it would have a powerful liberalizing impact.

This political power, not the requirements of energy policy, is what makes giving up nuclear energy so difficult.

WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.

Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP's main instruments so that a new policy formula can be introduced.

The EU needs a knowledge and innovation policy that strengthens European agriculture's competitiveness.

Such a policy has been successful in the Netherlands, substantially contributing to the development and power of the country's agribusiness.

Europe also needs a restructuring policy for land use.

Reforestation and the repair of natural ecosystems should also be part of a land use policy.

A policy for European food systems would treat production, processing, distribution, logistics, and retailing in combination.

A new CAP should include a policy to safeguard Europe's landscapes.

And it should not be a defensive policy of the sort that tends to concentrate on poor-quality land.

But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.

But a single market does not require a single social or industrial policy, far less a common taxation policy.

With soaring deficits, and a rudderless fiscal policy, one does wonder whether a populist administration might recklessly turn to the printing press.

Meanwhile, in about 2005, I was in South Africa with a small group advising former President Thabo Mbeki and his government about its IT policy.

It can strengthen the EU's legitimacy, though, only if policy recommendations such as these, and the successes that result from implementing them, are communicated clearly and effectively to the general public.

The game is to use international recognition of an independent Palestinian state to pressure the US to retreat from its almost unconditional support for Israeli policy.

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