There is a tendency in some foreign policy circles to believe that you don't have to think about causal chains of events.

The notion is still sensitive but no longer heretical in China's policy circles.

"He's looking for people to kind of close the policy circles he's begun to draw."

The best argument in most Soviet policy circles today is "that's the way Americans do it."

As a result, there has been a lot of loose talk in policy circles recently about how the United States should finally choose sides.

"Stigma" is a popular word in policy circles these days.

But getting from policy circles to implementation will be a formidable task politically.

This word has also been used in foreign policy circles to describe a mix of "containment" and "engagement".

The agencies have held these philosophical differences for years, but few outside of health policy circles were aware of it.

A fashionable phrase in academic and foreign policy circles holds that today's China is "a normal country."