Sentences with phrase «many foreign leaders»

Though the behavior of «playful Sue» may sound outlandish to some women, there are no shortage of high - powered and deeply serious professional women that admit to using their feminine charms to get what they want, including Clinton - era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who has admitted to flirting with male foreign leaders on the job.

A former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, the 64 - year - old has no previous experience as a diplomat but nonetheless has had deep exposure to dealing with foreign leaders in countries with interests opposed to or in competition with those of the United States.

Trump also was scheduled to tend to other business in Florida: calling Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos as he continues conversations with foreign leaders.

In contrast, the first visit by a foreign leader at his Mar - a-Lago estate was a friendly weekend of meetings, dinners and golf that suggested the new president was willing to invest time in developing close personal relationships with leaders he feels he can work with.

It is almost unheard of for foreign leaders to visit China twice in such close succession.

Relations between the U.S. and its closest ally have been repeatedly strained since Trump took office a year ago and U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May became the first foreign leader to meet him at the White House.

** BOAO, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping and a list of foreign leaders, including Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, United Nations Secretary - General Antonio Guterres and IMF's managing director Christine Lagarde are to speak at the opening of the annual Boao Forum in Hainan province - 0130 GMT.

The White House credited its policy of putting international economic, diplomatic, and military pressure on Pyongyang as having made Kim more willing to meet with foreign leaders.

The global reaction was swift and fierce, with condemnation coming from European and other foreign leaders, members of Congress and even captains of U.S. industry.

Trump's visit has been anticipated for more than a year, after May was the first foreign leader to be hosted by the president at the White House after his inauguration.

One senior White House official said that Trump was becoming worried over his ability to negotiate with foreign leaders, according to CNN.

World leaders typically exchange gifts, and Trump and Abe did so when Abe rushed to New York City in November to become the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after the election.

But she has slowly been raising her profile at the White House, including joining the president when foreign leaders and their spouses visit, co-hosting the annual Easter Egg Roll and holding some solo events.

Abe was the first foreign leader to meet Trump, and the two countries» military alliance has helped to sustain peace in East Asia for the past 60 years.

In fact, almost no one important was warned of Trump's monumental decision before it was made, and the White House did virtually nothing to prepare for the all - too - predictable angry response from foreign leaders:

When it comes to President Donald Trump's constellation of foreign investments, properties, and companies, much of the attention so far has been on his business's apparent violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bars officeholders from taking gifts from foreign leaders.

It's dawning on foreign leaders that warm relations with the United States carry little weight with a president dismissive of diplomatic norms and the ground rules of trade.

Bibi addressing Congress right before US elections, and Congress jumping up and down like jumping jacks to fawn over a foreign leader.

More to the point, the United States runs a $ 65 billion trade deficit in goods with Germany, its widest in Europe and third - largest overall — a key sticking point for Trump in his relationships with foreign leaders.

Later in the month however, the president agreed to temporarily exempt the European Union (EU) and six countries — Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea — while the U.S. negotiates long - term plans with foreign leaders from each country.

Plaudits from foreign leaders like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, as well as leading figures of the economic and diplomatic world, have helped to cement this image.

Leaked emails suggest that Elliott Broidy promised foreign leaders access to the Trump administration.

NEW YORK — The prospect of a U.S. debt default has unnerved investors, corporate executives and foreign leaders.

Incidentally, the universe of those who receive transcripts of POTUS discussions with foreign leaders is extremely limited.

Trump's comments to donors that laid bare his approach to arguing trade facts with foreign leaders show how he might try to engage with other heads of state in the coming weeks.

The same goes for any US or foreign leader, central banker, or whatever.

His first foreign leader to be received here.

If America is to have a stable foreign policy, that policy will start not with looking at the map, but with understanding values (both those of foreign leaders and those of the American people) as they are, and not as we might like them to be.

There is his zero - sum understanding of international relations in which the US is always losing to sharp foreign leaders.

They also said the agency allowed a system of racism, including calling foreign leaders under their protection the n - word and, but the agents were told not to complain for fear of ruining their careers.

Some members have held high - level meetings with foreign leaders, urged U.S. embassies to investigate situations of repression, and lobbied the White House and State Department to address particular issues in bilateral discussions.

The history of covert operations prior to the Iran - contra scandal includes attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, successful ousters of democratic governments, cooperation with mafia - type figures and efforts to deceive the U.S. people and Congress.

Such contract signings are a fixture of visits by foreign leaders to China and often involve agreements negotiated weeks or even months in advance which Beijing have saved to showcase its importance as a market.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

RE: Obama Foreign Policy - How can someone incapable of domestic planning anticipate the actions of foreign leaders?

Meanwhile, the foreign leaders, like those of the Eastern Hemisphere, will be busy moving further forward and doing their own thing.

Showing respect to foreign leaders is not relevant to this discussion.

Look around — we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist - in - Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders.

It has been widely claimed, although with no confirmation yet by students of the presidency, that Barack Obama is the first American President to have thus lowered himself to a foreign leader.

From mid-May to early - July he was travelling overseas, meeting with foreign leaders and looking presidential on the world stage.

From rules banning names of foreign leaders to those banning names of fruits... unusual monickers are generally banned to protect the child, and in some cases, not to highlight the name of a foreign enemy.

The Islamic Republic's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance not only bans all foreign names and names of leaders of other countries to be given to children, but also bans the mention of foreign leaders in national newspapers.

Although these also include first names of foreign leaders, parents will no longer be able to name their baby girls Linda, Sandy, Elaine or Lauren.

Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit Mr Trump in the White House following his inauguration in January 2017.

Increasingly Wright documents the obsessions of Thatcher and her love of major rows and her inability to hide her hostile views on foreign leaders, especially Helmut Kohl.

Mr Cameron will be the first foreign leader to travel on Air Force One as he journeys to Ohio to watch a baseball game.

Moreover, most foreign leaders seem to take what Trump says with a grain of salt, so that some of his more provocative statements or actions (like the hand - shake debacle) have not caused major problems — yet.

A couple random quotes (please note that many predate Bush's election as President and can't even be blamed on «Bush told CIA to mislead every other dumb politician in USA and foreign leader» usual argument):

On Monday October 6th, just days after Chris Grayling published Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, a foreign leader was already using them to defend himself against charges of crimes against humanity.

Just as importantly, he wouldn't have the strength to stand up to foreign leaders trying to stitch up Britain in international trade deals.