deliberate policy

collocation in English

meaningsofdeliberateandpolicy

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deliberate
adjective
uk
/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us
/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/
(often of something bad) intentional ...
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policy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us
/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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(Definition ofdeliberateandpolicyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdeliberate policy

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This was adeliberatepolicyrather than gross negligence.
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But it is difficult to perceive adeliberatepolicyin this respect.
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The suppressing of information can be part of adeliberatepolicyto keep accountability low and to maximize officials' discretion and power.
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This analysis of the reviser's procedures leaves a clear impression ofdeliberatepolicy.
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Its emergence was closely connected with the development of priority setting as adeliberatepolicy.
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It is adeliberatepolicy, conscious of its own ends, and not the spontaneous, automatic expression of economic facts.
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This may be due to adeliberatepolicyto mainstream gender in all activities.
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It is theirdeliberatepolicy, often, to soften the conservative moral teaching, exclusion and high socialisation associated with groups which are disparagingly denominated ' fundamentalist', and to eschew charismatic religious experience.
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As elsewhere in the book his own views are not given, which is adeliberatepolicy; all the same it would be interesting to know them.
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Again, this may suggest that patronage links, personal ambitions, and local circumstances were significant in the selection of justices, rather than anydeliberatepolicyof building up a clerical presence.
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Nasson highlights thedeliberatepolicyof confrontation that led to war, while rejecting simplistic monocausal explanations.
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From the beginning, they had adeliberatepolicyof cutting back on research and development, as well as on monitoring.
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There has been adeliberatepolicyof undermining people's confidence in a system that was working, even if it needed updating.
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This is a grotesque picture, a mixture ofdeliberatepolicyand malicious distortion.
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It can easily be destroyed by neglect, ill will ordeliberatepolicy.
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Their policy is to filibuster, and it is adeliberatepolicy.
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By an act ofdeliberatepolicy, the employers have moved away from dockland work which has traditionally been performed by dock workers.
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The authority has adeliberatepolicyof giving priority to training for residential and domiciliary staff, as distinct from field social workers.
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The city council not only disregarded that advice at the time, but set out on adeliberatepolicyof municipal new build.
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Bydeliberatepolicycouncil house building has been cut back throughout the country.
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