How to Use policy in a Sentence

policy

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  • At the same time, AfD has also faced calls for bans and some of its policies have been likened to Nazi-era Germany.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But the threat of violence hasn’t been enough to enact stricter hate-speech policies from YouTube or X.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Doing the right thing for once, although strange to the US, should be the official policy.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • Their policies boast a clear national vision that steers the state.
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • At the Newburgh school, the policy came as a bit of a shock for some students when it was introduced four years ago.
    — Meg Oliver, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And the Court now says that no party injured by this policy is allowed to challenge it in court.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 23 June 2023
  • Here’s how the policy works: Teams can have no more than one star player unavailable in each game.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Such policies can turn patients off and create mistrust in the system.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The White House ended the suite of policies, including Remain in Mexico, that had stopped the flow of migrants to the border.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Under the new policy, students who are not in grades 9 through 12 will not be allowed entry to games at the high school without an adult.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But the city continued to rely on the policy at least for another year.
    — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
  • Those issues have been caught in a tug-of-war in recent years as the party debates policies touching on global trade, culture wars, and the war in Ukraine.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Raman has had to focus on more than policy during her first term.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • This policy also includes a process for patrons to object to the placement of any item in the collection.
    — Rachel Fradette, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Supporters of the policies urged school leaders around the commonwealth to adopt and implement the new policies.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • Ann Arbor, which may be the first city in the state to implement such a policy, could be the one to cause a ripple effect around the state — or at least that's what Harrison hopes.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2023
  • And in the last century, none was more deadly and influential on flood control policy than the great storm of 1938.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • There weren’t always hotel policies on length of stays during Super Bowl weekend, but now there are.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The incoming Taiwan president has repeatedly pledged to make no changes to policies in place over the last eight years.
    — Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 4 May 2024
  • Still, China’s policies should be more holistic, Cheung says.
    — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Live Nation said the new policy will roll out in September, according to a White House press release.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • Similar winds are now at the back of the Artemis program, which bodes well for future budget and space policy battles that are sure to come with delays and cost overruns.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Mahana Fresh is known for providing quick, healthy meals under its strict gluten-free policy.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Times, hewing to its policy about politicians’ private lives, was slow to pick up on the story, which was soon verified by other news outlets.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Even so, several policy experts said that a halt in U.S. aid to Ukraine could be unsettling for Taiwan.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The policy will begin March 4, according to an internal memo shared with CNN.
    — Jennifer Korn, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And the impediment currently is the White House policy on the Southern border.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Privacy policy Current home equity rates Home-equity loan rates, which are fixed for the life of the loan, have been on the rise this year—as have most interest rates across the board.
    — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 7 Dec. 2023
  • While China has relaxed some real estate policies in a bid to stabilize home prices, analysts think that the glory days of the sector are over.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • How much political boost Biden will receive from the new policy, however, remains uncertain.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024

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