Is it a good idea to formulate global policy based on an untestable theory?
This was the price of a foreign policy based on assertion rather than on persuasion.
Or, in detail, why would we have this story of policy based evidence making about biofuels?
And Mr Fraga will have to implement a credible monetary policy based on an inflation target.
Like the earlier iterations of QE, QE3 is pernicious public policy based on faulty economic notions.
It's a table showing estimated future values of your policy based on assumptions about premium payments and dividends.
To the contrary, like former president Jimmy Carter, Huckabee advocates an emasculated foreign policy based on being nice to other countries.
It is true that any policy based on ignorance, as a policy on global warming must still be, entails a gamble.
In Pakistan's war zones, a policy based purely on jamming, and confiscating kit, would upset local Pushtuns, for whom radio is a vital medium.
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But he is inclined to over-simplify, and his preference for a foreign policy based entirely on calculations of (narrowly defined) American self-interest inevitably infects his judgments.
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ICC, a policy based on narrow ideology and irrational fear, is softened and shifted towards a sensible engagement with the court for the benefit of all.
It means making policy based on evidence rather than feelings.
Mr Bolton is one of the toughest campaigners in the Bush administration for a foreign policy based on US power and catering to narrowly defined US interests, say correspondents.
That the Senate Majority leader made an important and false statement on tax policy based only on an NPR story rather than the IRS or Treasury is a scandal in itself.
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And while Turkey prided itself on an ever more independent foreign policy based on its deep understanding of its region, it found itself unprepared for the upheavals of the Arab Spring.
This Report recommended that multiculturalism replace the bicultural policy based on the British and French Charter groups around whom policies for ethnic diversity in Canadian society had been organised for over a century.
It is rare that foreign governments changed policy based on the application of US economic power alone, but in combination with the other instruments of national power, economics can be a very effective tool.
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One colonel reported worries of this sort to General Bedoya last year, adding some recommendations for army policy based on his own success in reducing the death toll in one of Colombia's worst trouble-spots.
"Teachers are already suffering from pay freezes, job losses and increases in pension contributions - they now face pay cuts due to a policy based on ideology not evidence, " said National Union of Teachers' leader Christine Blower.
Thus if you are going to make the case that the government should smooth policy based fluctuations in prices, then you should make the general case that the government should use subsidies to smooth other prices for businesses.
On the other hand, the test of a policy based on realism is whether it delivers results, and engagement on its own, as Mr Bush discovered in his chastened second term, seldom alters the behaviour of regimes that think they are acting rationally in their own vital interests.
However you interpret the data, the fact remains that the longer we continue to form our opinions on health care policy based on ideology and the care and feeding of special interests, the longer it will take to come up with a system that can actually work for all Americans.
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Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.
In each case, the policy is based on a recognition that there is no such thing as zero immigration, and that a managed, skills-based immigration policy will not only control inflows but also bring benefits to host countries.
The SNP policy is based on assertion and presumption none of which constitutes a proper defence policy for Scotland.
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To develop policy recommendations based on multi-stakeholder consultations and taking a nexus perspective.
French foreign policy is based on balancing these sometimes conflicting goals of objectivity and subjectivity.
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