POLICY in a Sentence

Learn POLICY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
251 example sentences for POLICY, such as:
1. Two basic assumptions lay behind the policy.
2. He renewed his attack on government policy towards Europe.
3. These latest developments argue a change in government policy.
4. The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy.
5. The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of POLICY
policy
 n.  a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government
 n.  a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Such a policy was difficult to enforce; some of the black refugees declared themselves freemen, others showed that their masters had deserted them, and still others were captured with forts and plantations.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The debates wandered over the whole policy of the administration and the general question of slavery, without touching very closely the specific merits of the measure in hand.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Of the foes without the Bureau, the bitterest were those who attacked not so much its conduct or policy under the law as the necessity for any such institution at all.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
4  In other periods of intensified prejudice all the Negro's tendency to self-assertion has been called forth; at this period a policy of submission is advocated.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
5  This policy has been courageously and insistently advocated for over fifteen years, and has been triumphant for perhaps ten years.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
6  We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
7  The struggle for reformatories, which has gone on in Virginia, Georgia, and other States, is the one encouraging sign of the awakening of some communities to the suicidal results of this policy.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  I have not glossed over matters for policy's sake, for I fear we have already gone too far in that sort of thing.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
10  I have found that there is a large element in the South that is quick to respond to straightforward, honest criticism of any wrong policy.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
11  Aunt Pitty, who had been the first to denounce Old Joe for his policy of retreat, was among the first to pack her trunks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  She had heard Ashley say that the South was being treated as a conquered province and that vindictiveness was the dominant policy of the conquerors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord's policy of insurance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
14  Against this stern and unyielding morality, supported as it was by such visible policy, there was no appeal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
15  On their arrival at the encampment of his people, Magua, in obedience to a policy seldom departed from, separated his prisoners.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Now the government is trying another policy designed to achieve the same end.
2  What is actually paid will depend on the bonus payments made at the end of the policy.
3  The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy.
4  We can't go any farther / further ahead with this out-of-date policy.
5  In the final analysis, it is the drug companies that are going to profit from this policy.
6  The Kremlin is deeply split in its approach to foreign policy.
7  The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
8  Critics of government policy argue that the new measures introduced to fight crime are simply papering over the cracks.
9  These latest developments argue a change in government policy.
10  He renewed his attack on government policy towards Europe.
11  Two basic assumptions lay behind the policy.
12  Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
13  Government tax policy has tilted toward industrial development.
14  The first companies to go in took a policy of employing East Germans and training them up.
15  The government's training policy, he claimed, was achieving its objectives.