The longer the delay, the greater the downward thrust of monetary policy would have to be to stop inflation.

By crafting their solution, and with the normally reticent Gilpatric speaking up forcefully for it, the two managed to change the thrust of policy.

However, there is a clear underpinning economic rationale and consequently the broad thrust of policy is rarely ideologically contentious.

This has indeed been the thrust of German policy for several years.

Reverse the centralising thrust of recent policy.

For much of her first term the thrust of economic policy was regarded sceptically by many colleagues.

Almost as soon as the zoning codes took effect, the major thrust of zoning policy shifted to deciding on requests for exceptions.

By implication, the whole thrust of post-war economic policy had been misguided, dominated by a totally unrealistic fear of a return to the 1930s.

In Russia, the whole thrust of American policy is at stake in June's elections.

The thrust of policy now, however, is to cut costs by retracting rights to coverage.