impolicy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“It is not the province of the court to decide upon the justice or injustice, the policy or impolicy, of these laws. The decision of that question belonged to the political or lawmaking power.”
From The New Yorker
If Raymond had not yet actively persecuted his heretic subjects it was merely because of the impolicy, under constant threats of foreign aggression, of alienating so large a portion of the population on which he relied for support.
From Project Gutenberg
From the same volume we learn the impolicy of creating spiritual superiors.
From Project Gutenberg
If he was led sometimes to assume an attitude of antagonism to features of locomotive-construction which after-experience showed to be valuable,—and a desire for historical accuracy has required the mention, in previous pages, of several instances of this kind,—it is at least certain that his opposition was based upon a conscientious belief in the mechanical impolicy of the proposed changes.
From Project Gutenberg
At the same time I caused to be transmitted to England some pieces on the same subject, and further showing the probability, that the neutral powers might adopt this measure, and the impolicy of Great Britain, in permitting all the powers of Europe to get the start of her, and having more merit with America than she, by acknowledging her independence first.
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