Example sentences for: policing

How can you use “policing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The reduction was variously attributed to: 1) more policing; 2) harsher prison terms; 3) fewer teen-agers; and 4) sustained economic growth.

  • Eliminating racial profiling will make policing more difficult, but the cost is worth bearing because profiling burdens targeted groups, engenders rage against the police, and undercuts the ideal of a colorblind society.

  • Microsoft does engage in some anti-competitive practices, such as not allowing resellers to disclose contract terms, and the Department of Justice is doing a fair job of policing such activity.

  • Kristol draws just short of calling the United States "a helpless, pitiful giant" as he extracts this moral from India's tests: "The signal has gone out that the U.S. is not serious" about policing rogue nations.

  • In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald Friday welcomed the U.N.-brokered agreement on self-determination for the people of East Timor but expressed doubts about the policing of next August's referendum by the Indonesian army, "which invaded East Timor, forcibly annexed the territory, and has maintained a policy of brutal pacification" there.


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