59 Metaphors for policies

I believe his policy was the best for Europe, on the whole.

The policy to which they owed their growth was absorption, and the people whom they first began to absorb were Greeks and other Christians, and it was to a Christian girl, Nilufer, that Osman married his son Orkhan.

In the case of which he was speaking his warning, as we have seen, fell on deaf ears; but the policy of the present reign is a willing and full adoption of them, on a far larger scale than even his farseeing vision could then contemplate.

The policy adopted by France and Russia would be an important factor.

It now began to be apparent that the policy of the prime minister was reform wherever reform was needed.

One of Pitt's great measures of domestic, apart from financial or commercial, policy having become law, it seemed in some degree natural to look for the accomplishment of the other, a reform of the House of Commons, which, indeed, after the conclusion of the war, had been made at times the subject of earnest petition, being one in which a far greater number of people had a lively interest than that excited by Catholic Emancipation.

The policy of the American command, quite unintentionally perhaps, has been quite the reverse.

If an imperial government was necessary for the existing political and social condition of the Roman world,and this is maintained by most historians,how fortunate it was that the empire fell into the hands of a man whose subsequent policy was peace, the development of resources of nations, and a vigorous administration of government!

Policy is the word, and you know that policy is not the science of principle, but of exigencies; and that principles are, of course, by a free and powerful nation, never to be sacrificed to exigencies.

A policy about tariffs and revenues, all resting on unsettled principles of political economy, may have been a matter of compromise,not the fundamental principles of the Christian religion, as declared by inspiration, and which he was bound to accept as they were revealed and declared, whether they could be reconciled with his reason or not.

Herod's policy was loyalty at any cost to the man who at the moment ruled Rome.

If the policy of the Entente towards Germany and towards the conquered countries does not correspond either to collective declarations made during the War, or to the promises solemnly made by Wilson, the policy towards Russia has been a whole series of error.

Such a policy is also the best school in which to educate a nation to great military achievements.

Such a policy would have been a crime against France itself, who had abandoned the spirit of vengeance, and had only one ambitionto pursue its ideals and its business in peace.

For nearly a year after the colossal blunder of the Lusitania, there existed in the deep undercurrents of German politics a most remarkable whirlpool of discord, in which the policy of von Tirpitz was a severe tax on the patience of von Bethmann-Hollweg and the Foreign Office, for it was they who had to invent all sorts of plausible excuses to placate various neutral Powers.

The traditional policy of St. Petersburg is not an atmosphere in which the plant of regeneration can grow, and the fanciful idea became soon a weapon of oppression and of Russian preponderanceRussia availed herself of the idea of Panslavism to break Turkey down, and to make an obedient satellite out of Austria.

France, however, is in a much more difficult situation, and her policy is still a result of her anxieties.

Colonial Policy of Charles II.In 1660 Charles II became king of England or was "restored" to the throne, as people said at the time.

The facts show clearly that Germany was challenging as well as she could the British supremacy at sea; that she was determined to become a naval as well as a military Power; and that her policy was, on the face of it, a menace to this country; just as the creation on our part of a great conscript army would have been taken by Germany as a menace to her.

American policy is the antagonist of this.

Mrs. Somers's policy to that effect would be a success, for I should make no opposition to it.

A policy about tariffs and revenues, all resting on unsettled principles of political economy, may have been a matter of compromise,not the fundamental principles of the Christian religion, as declared by inspiration, and which he was bound to accept as they were revealed and declared, whether they could be reconciled with his reason or not.

Such a policy was in reality only a development of the principle laid down by Pitt half a century before, and warmly approved by his great rival, that "the only method of retaining distant colonies with advantage is to enable them to govern themselves."

He referred, he said, to this note to show that the present policy was not a line of conduct adopted for one occasion, but a principle expressly laid down both by Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning, and which, notwithstanding our peculiar relations with Portugal, in consequence of treaties existing for four hundred years, was yet not considered applicable to Portugal more than to any other state.

The policy is simply perfect freedom, with support and substantial assistance to any and to every movement set on foot by the respectable men of Fleeceborough, or by the tenant farmers round about.

59 Metaphors for  policies