And the practical results of this policy are before us.
These facts demonstrate this: that since the Young Men’s Christian Association inaugurated the policy of attracting youth to its head-quarters, its distinctively religious force has increased ten-fold.
The results of this policy so long and so thoroughly tried, are before us.
My proposition smoothed every obstacle, and reconciled policy with mercy.
His invention was still at fault, and, for a wonder, he thought it the best policy to go pretty near the truth.
You know the Austrian policy is proverbially so jealous and tyrannical?
The mere duration of the war altered of necessity the policy of the North and of the President.
Whoever would prevent slavery becoming national and perpetual yields all when he yields to a policy which treats it either as being right, or as being a matter of indifference.
There remains a solid and far larger South in which indeed (except for South Carolina) dominant Southern policy was briskly debated, but as a question of time, degree, and expediency.
In any well-thought-out policy the objects both of Scott's plan and of the popular plan would have been borne in mind.
But in the true perspective of the war, the point which has now been reached marks the final election by the North of the policy by which it won the war.
These resented that delay in a policy of wholesale liberation which was enforced by legal and constitutional scruples, and by such practical considerations as the situation in the slave States which adhered to the North.
An examination of the tangle in which military policy was first involved may make the chief incidents of the war throughout easier to follow.
The closest analogy which it is in our power to suggest is the almost parallel sentiment and policy in regard to other branches of inquiry--china, furniture, numismatics.
Not the worst policy is to hand a commission to one's strongest opponent, if he will or can take it.
The collision between his son and Ralegh may have arisen out of controversies on the proper policy to be pursued in the island.
In support of his policy he favoured an intimate alliance with the chief rival Power.
Ferocity to Irishmen was accounted policy and steadfastness.
It seems to have been an elaborate written embodiment of a policy which the Minister may have heard before from its author's mouth.
They who mock at her claims to adoration as the Lady of the land are ungrateful to a policy which preserved the tone of English society for a generation romantic, poetical, and chivalrous.
Together they were, as has been seen, conferring privately with Elizabeth on the policy to be adopted towards Munster rebels a few months before her death.
Such was Ralegh's machiavellian policy that he would never confer with but one at once.
He did not disguise either his discontent at the policy of his father's favourite advisers, or his preference for ambitious projects such as Ralegh was known to cherish.
Henry Howard, whose policy she had opposed before the death of Elizabeth, insinuated that she was a foolish, garrulous, and intriguing woman.
But Cecil was of a nature to discuss questions of policy with his confidants, and extract their views, while he revealed only half his own.
He knew he was right; from the point of view of the prevalent Elizabethan policy towards Ireland, though not from Burleigh's, he was right.
It may even be acknowledged that the resolute and consistent despotism he advocated might have been more tolerable, as well as more successful, than the spasmodic and fitful violence which discredited the Irish policy of the reign.
At length an impression had been produced that the prosecution of his policy might bring money into other coffers beside his own.
It does not indicate the smallest tendency in him to further his own policy by means of illegitimate foreign influences.
I accord them the utmost freedom of speech and liberty of the press, but shall not change the policy I have adopted in the full belief that I am right.
Nothing in the career or the policy of Jefferson was nearer his heart than the homely and healthful republicanism implied in the term "Jeffersonian simplicity.
There seemed to be no settled policy for the contemplated new state of things, and few men thought alike on the subject.
To get a Cabinet that would work harmoniously in carrying out the policy determined on by Mr. Lincoln was very difficult.
He was compelled to give a patient ear to these representations, and to hold his decisions till the last moment, in order that he might decide with a full view of the requirements of public policy and party fealty.
All that he knew or had ever known of the policy of the State, of religion, or of law was on the side of slavery.
The opposition was continued to the last, and Mr. Lincoln adhered to his policy to the end.
The question of the new Administration's policy absorbed nearly every other consideration.
See that he falls into the right hands,--men who support the policy of the administration.
His policy was invariably formed by his own judgment, and it seldom took even the slightest color from the opinions of others, however decided.
From the commencement of the struggle, Lincoln's policy was to break the back-bone of the Confederacy by depriving it of its principal means of subsistence.
Thoroughly organized by past experience, it now quietly pursues a policy deep, powerful, and difficult to be met on account of its mysticism.
The policy of the apostles (who, when they were taught to be harmless, were to be wise) adapted itself to the then existing state of affairs.
In most constituencies a member can only enter Parliament fettered by many pledges relating to specific measures, and in every turn of policy sections of his constituents will attempt to dictate his course of action.
In such periods the importance of party objects is much diminished and a policy which is intended merely to keep a party in power should be severely condemned.
There is such a thing as the comity of nations, and even apart from treaty obligations no great nation can pursue a policy of complete isolation, disregarding crimes and aggressions beyond its border.
A good man will choose his party through disinterested motives, and with a firm and honest conviction that it represents the cast of policy most beneficial to the country.
How far, if several Powers agree to guarantee the integrity of a small Power, is one Power bound at great risk to interfere in isolation if its co-partners refuse to do so or are even accomplices in a policy of plunder?
It is the conviction that British policy is essentially honourable and straightforward, that the word and honour of its statesmen and diplomatists may be implicitly trusted, and that intrigues and deceptions are wholly alien to their nature.
Its leaders are certainly not detached from the party policy they had advocated in opposition.
For it was not his policy to alarm Mark too far, and least of all to show his hand so early.
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured.
In the federal Constitution, this policy does not prevail.
It has been the prudent policy of Congress to appease this controversy, by prevailing upon the States to make cessions to the United States for the benefit of the whole.
When the former became a victim to Macedon, the latter was spared by the policy of Philip and Alexander.
Every nation, consequently, whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability, may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematicpolicy of their wiser neighbors.
No motive of national policy has demanded, nor would public opinion have tolerated, a larger number of troops upon its domestic establishment.
But it may not be improper to take notice of an argument against this part of the Constitution, which has been drawn from the policy and practice of Great Britain.
If we continue united, we may counteract a policy so unfriendly to our prosperity in a variety of ways.
The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils.
This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together.
All that kind of policyby which nations anticipate distant danger, and meet the gathering storm, must be abstained from, as contrary to the genuine maxims of a free government.
He was as violent in upholding its policy as his own party was in abusing it.
In this policy of caution, it is useless to deny that there was an element of self-interest.
It was his foreign policy that absorbed his zeal, considerably to the prejudice of his popularity at home.
Wiser than that of temporal kings, his Jewish policy had always been comparatively mild.
The chief members of the Irish Government, whose policy was so approved of, were the Marquis of Normanby and Lord Morpeth.
Sir, the policy of these things depends not upon precedent—not upon what has been done in former times; it mainly depends upon a consideration of the present.
No; such associations comport not with the policyof her ministers; the ear of the Sovereign is whispered from the choicest of her subjects—the palace doors are locked inexorably against all but a certain clique.
A majority of twenty-two had decided in favour of the policy of the Irish Government.
This resolution condemned the rebellious movement of the Soviet, but the responsibilities for the movement were laid at the door of the anti-democratic policy of the government.
The new coalition government, with Kerensky at its head, had already openly embarked upon a policy of repression.
There were two possible ways out: to drive the bourgeoisie out of power and promote the aims of the revolution, or to adopt the policy of "bridling" the people by resorting to repressive measures.
Our policy was, on the contrary, to line up the toiling lower classes against the representatives of organizations which supported the Kerensky regime.
To adhere to the policy of Revolutionary Socialism meant, under those circumstances, to break with the bourgeoisie, their own and that of the Allies.
The accusations of the purchased press and of the social-traitor press that we had made no attempt to agree with our Allies on a common policy was therefore entirely false.
We swept aside the threat of the Western imperialists and took upon ourselves the responsibility for our peace policy before the international working class.
The "left" wing conducted a policy of parliamentary opposition.
This uncompromising policy caused considerable friction and even division in the upper circles of our party.
The Korniloff uprising was destined to open definitely the eyes of the army to the inadmissibility of any continued policy of conciliation with the bourgeois counter-revolution.
The best thing he could do would be to publish, with Macmillans, his monograph upon the foreignpolicy of Chatham.
Clara could not have answered, since, as Mrs. Durrant discussed with Sir Edgar the policy of Sir Edward Grey, Clara only wondered why the cabinet looked dusty, and Jacob had never come.
There could be only one termination to such a military policy as this when every hour lessened the distance between the opposing forces.
Much has been written as to thepolicy pursued by Lord Raglan, of not following up the retreating enemy and completing their destruction ere they reached Sebastopol.
I, for one, think it very questionable policy on the part of our Government to take horses out of warm barrack-stables and picket them in the open air, as at Aldershot and the Curragh camp, when there is neither war nor rumours of war.
The maintenance of a large volunteer force at home is as much a matter of policy with our Government, as it is to send the regular army abroad to meet the enemy.
Canning's accession to office in 1822 meant that the foreign policy of England was to be definitely opposed to the policy of the 'Holy Alliance.
Is it plain that even enlightenment of mind would induce a poor man to see his own advantage in the policy which would in the long run be best for the whole society?
Canning, in supporting his friend, maintained that sound commercial policy belonged no more to the Whigs than to the Tories.
The political atmosphere was altogether different; and an entirely new set of influences was governing the policy of statesmen.
When Canning called 'the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old,'[34] he declared that English policy should resist threats from the Holy Alliance directed against some of our best customers.
The struggle marked by the policy of the 'Orders in Council' on one side, and Napoleon's decrees on the other, involved a constant reference to Manchester and Liverpool and the rapidly growing manufacturing and commercial interests.
Canning could now accept the version of Pitt's policy which corresponded to the later phase.
The influence of the economists upon public policy was shown by the important measures carried through chiefly by Huskisson.
Hazlitt could forgive any policy which meant the humiliation of the men whom he most heartily hated.
Canning and Huskisson here represented the policy not only of Pitt, but of Castlereagh.
British victories, and, in his own opinion, kept American policy straight.
The desire of Richard himself and of the Court Party was to prosecute the foreign policy which Oliver had so strenuously begun.
It would be the common policy of the Resolutioners and Protesters to keep or drive such erratic spirits out of the Kirk.
Over the country, no less than in the Parliament, the conservative policy was in favour, and the Cromwellians or Protectoratists, among whom the Presbyterians now ranked themselves, were far more numerous than the old Republicans.
Even within England and Wales there might be many officers, besides those already discharged, whose adhesion to the Wallingford-House policy was dubious; and these had to be found out.
He advised him, substantially, to persevere in the later or very conservative policy of his father, but with certain differences or additions, which would be now easy.
But perhaps it hardly needed Broghill's representations to induce Cromwell to reconsider his Scottish policy in regard to the Kirk.
The dissensions were as to the manner and extent of their adhesion to Richard, and the policy to be recommended to him or forced upon him.
Now, the great bequests from the late Protectorate in the matter of foreign policy had been two: (1)The War with Spain, in alliance with France.
He was not without a policy in this, since from the day of receiving his commission he had combined a genuine love of his profession with a quite laudable intention to "get on.
It wasn't my policy to question him too closely about that.
But there is no policy equal to truth, no line of conduct at all comparable to consistency.
She is best known to historians as the author of Livre des Fais et Bonnes Meurs du sage Roy Charles V, which is a graphic account of the court and policy of this monarch, and of the Livre des Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie.
A laissez-faire policy is like spoiling a child by saying he'll turn out all right in the end.
Its History, Consequences, and policy of the Jesuits.
In the next place, it implies, or is likely to lead to, no change of public measures, no reaction against the commercial policy which has produced the suffering.
Can it be supposed that a plain, unambitious policy of merely exchanging productions with other nations will raise her, or keep her, above her natural level?
On this account there are Protectionists who deprecate any attempt to displace the Government at this time, or force upon a reluctant majority in the House of Commons a change in the present commercial policy of the country.
