Earlier this month, Labour's Shadow Schools Minister Kevin Brennan pledged that Labour would not support a "policy that undermines both rigour and equity".
The twin pillars of that policy -- support for pro-American regimes that share U.S. security interests and the pursuit of Israeli-Arab peace -- are now on shaky ground.
Gaffney expressed concern, however, that in omitting reference to two thorny issues relating to his policy on Iraq, the President may inadvertently be substantially complicating the future prospects for popular and international support for that policy.
They have said "we cannot support a policy that deepens the recession".
But, whatever the motives of individual politicians, the end result was the same: a policy that once enjoyed broad support within the Republican Party suddenly faced unified opposition opposition that was echoed, refined, and popularized by other institutions affiliated with the Party.
The committee also said that "having signed a declaration on 5 May 1998 that he would faithfully support the current policy of the UUP and that he would accept the party whip, he has failed to do so on an ongoing basis".
"As a matter of public policy we should support a company that invests heavily in expanding refinery capacity, is committed to making more gasoline and has a long track record of making money, " says Adams.
It cited the positive aspects of the US economy, i.e. its high level of flexibility, independent central bank (The Federal Reserve or Fed), and the ensuing effective monetary policy that has lent support to growth while containing inflationary pressures.
"The concept of a payment policy that supports quality and safety is something that we support, " says Nancy Foster, who handles quality and patient safety issues for the American Hospital Association.
So far, Mr Berlusconi has enjoyed clear parliamentary support for his policy, but that partly reflects the fact that the Italian left remains in a state of confusion following the elections which brought Mr Berlusconi to power last year.
There is already a hugely effective policy in place that will help support British firms and British workers: the collapse in the value of the pound, which makes it harder for foreigners to find buyers here and easier for British exporters to expand.
It is hard to come up with another example of a policy that has failed so often and so violently that has enjoyed the support of both American political parties.
Europe and Japan shared a basic commitment to the type of world order that Americans wanted, and so a more cooperative approach to key policy questions enlisted the support of rich and powerful allies for efforts that tallied pretty closely with key long-term American goals.
Indeed, it is hard to think of a successful policy that ever enjoyed such broad support.
The crucial test is whether the country is willing to support the hard work and policy reforms that will sustain it.
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Younger politicians in urban seats have begun to organise looser, policy-based support groups over the Internet that require far less money to run.
First of all, from our vantage point, there is pretty unified support in Congress for a policy that calls for the Qaddafi regime to remove itself from power.
An increasing number of central banks, such as the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Reserve Banks of Australia and New Zealand, now support the view that monetary policy should sometimes act to restrain a rapid increase in credit and asset prices.
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Mr. Bernanke said to Congress on Wednesday that an early pullback on bond buying could stall the recovery but that the Fed could "take a step down" from the purchases within the time frame of the next few policy-setting meetings if economic data support that path.
Whilst I fully support the ICC future tours policy that requires all member nations to play each other on a regular basis, and understand Cricket Australia's obligation to tour, I told them that I was uncomfortable about touring Zimbabwe at this point in time and maintaining a clear conscience.
You know, until lawmakers and policy makers and corporations acknowledge that it is not good economic policy as well as social policy to pay wages that force workers to turn to public assistance to support themselves, which means that that impacts taxpayers and it is not good economic policy as well as social policy...
That meant that several important countries were prepared to give the foreign-policy post to a British candidate, if that might lock in British support for much more ambitious developments in diplomacy and foreign policy.
Gong Keyu, North Korea expert at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, however, tells Ming Pao that China's support again for UN sanctions indicates that it may adjust its policy or even partially cut off North Korea in the future.
This is a policy that the Welsh Liberal Democrats fully support and is greatly needed in Wales.
This halo has not yet translated into cheap power prices or delivered at scale the environmental benefits that support subsidies and favorable policy treatment for clean energy.
Their policy on public place smoking is that they support the creation of smoke-free areas but that a ban on all indoor smoking in work and public places goes too far.
We won't speculate about Obama's motivation here, but relying on assurances from "the Muslim world" not to support terrorism is bad policy because Shariah mandates that Muslims donate zakat to charities and it also mandates that a portion of those zakat donations go to Jihad.
Officials at the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank for International Settlements (the central banks' central bank) have given some support to the view that monetary policy should sometimes lean against a rapid growth in asset prices and build-up of debt, even if consumer-price inflation is low.
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