failed policy

collocation in English

meaningsoffailedandpolicy

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failed
adjective[before noun]
uk
/feɪld/us
/feɪld/
having ...
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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 offailedandpolicyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Afterfailedpolicy, new research was proposed to inform future policy measurements on this subject.
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This is now a sixth attempt to relaunch what is demonstrably afailedpolicy—grant-maintained schools.
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After eight years with no concrete results, surely sanctions are afailedpolicy.
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Grant-maintained schools are afailedpolicyin terms of the number of people voting for it and its ability to lever up standards.
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It is proof of the refusal to draw up an effective balance sheet forfailedpolicyand disintegrating formulae.
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I would not want to go back to afailedpolicythat did not stop the spread or increase of the disease.
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Does that not illustrate that the parents and governors of eligible schools know that it is afailedpolicy?
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The amendments are about thefailedpolicyfor going grant-maintained.
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Why are they now about to embark on their sixth attempt to refloat afailedpolicy?
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They want to revert to afailedpolicy.
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I believe that the poll tax is more than afailedpolicy: it is a very major failure of the whole system of government in this country.
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Once again, their thinking seems to be set in old,failedpolicy.
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Some £14 billion was squandered on the poll tax—an ill-conceived andfailedpolicy, which was eventually abandoned but at great cost to the taxpayer.
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Groups seeking to resist state authority took advantage of the leader's failed policies and the divisions among his associates.
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We are paying for their failed policies of interference in education.
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For many countries that have abandoned the failed policies of the 1970s, not only is growth higher but their exports are higher.
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In short, it is back to the failed policies of the 1970s.
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They want us to perpetuate the failed policies that they pursued.
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We must not allow other countries to seek to impose their failed policies on us.
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So much of what it says is merely a re-run of failed policies of the past.
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