open-door policy
Example Sentences
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The couple keeps an open-door policy to curious neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
His deployment of troops to fight jihadists in Somalia, and an open-door policy to refugees, won favour from foreign donors, even as they triggered corruption scandals at home.
From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026
"They have a good relationship with the school, we have an open-door policy, and it's the staff who are then taking those phone calls."
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025
The Arensbergs kept an open-door policy for artists and art lovers to bask in nearly 1,000 works from pre-Columbian objects and Modern artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and, their favorite, Marcel Duchamp.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024
However, in 1910 the United States proposed that the Manchurian railway, just then the principal issue, be financed by an international syndicate, reasserting, thereby, its previous stand for an "open-door" policy in China.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
