They had expected the earlier policy to stand, but the reversal has made their product more expensive and less attractive to customers.

The earlier policy of defend and contain was, and is, working.

"Did he have any earlier policies with any other company?"

An earlier policy of forcing couples with one child to have abortions has been recently relaxed.

The court has already rejected an earlier policy that limited demonstrations to 25 people.

However, the early policy was to hospitalize wandering patients only.

Those earlier policies assumed that the cause of the imbalance lay at least in part on the consumption side.

In an interview, the head of the agency's Asian activities went so far as to denounce the earlier policy.

The government also reversed its earlier policy and started building flats in Canberra.

The philosophy marks a welcome shift from earlier Conservative policy.