Sentences with phrase «by foreign powers»

A large share of the world's oil reserves is controlled by foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.

America has never been invaded or occupied by a foreign power following a defeat.

His country's real protection against undue influence by any foreign power, says Lee, is to maintain a balance of investment by the U.S., Japan, and Western Europe.

That disappeared with colonization by foreign powers (Birch, Eakin & McDaniel 1990).

In Isaiah, when King Ahaz was beset by foreign powers, he looked for an alliance with one of the foreign kings.

Now we and the sane world are observing with horror that a theocracy (whelped by foreign powers) in Iran is brutalizing, tormenting, torturing and murdering them openly without any global organization related to Human Rights blinking their eyes.

Such a violation of human ecology must be analyzed with regard to the domination of Korea by foreign powers and the divide - and - conquer strategies that continue to dehumanize the victimized people of the third world.

The history of the Chinese church during the Ch» ing period shows that the Chinese were always suspicious of religions which were supported by foreign powers within or outside China.

Thus the land in which Jesus worked, Galilee, and even more directly Judea, where he died, were ruled by a foreign power.

He is appointed for a four - year term by the foreign powers, who are signatories to the treaty, at Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings.

«He may recall that the chancellor's cat Freya had access to the Foreign Office, Number 10 Downing Street and it was thought that she might have been got at by a foreign power.

Robert Pape says that the overwhelming reason for «suicide» (homicide) bombers is occupation by a foreign power or desire for local autonomy against a larger state, rather than religion.

A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity.

In John Frankenheimer's paranoiac Cold War parable, undercover subversive Eleanor Shaw Iselin (Angela Lansbury) takes manipulation to a terrifying extreme: Her son Raymond (Laurence Harvey) is an assassin conditioned to kill by a foreign power, and Eleanor is the operative responsible for controlling him.

This dramatic period — which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the international community — has also marked an explosion of artistic experimentation and innovation.

Informed by a socialist - realist aesthetic and inspired by a news image of a Roma woman being deported from France, they evoke lifeless mannequins trapped in an economy in which the value of both human beings and commodities is determined by foreign powers.

The exhibition includes work such as Paolo Cirio's installation that obfuscates the 15 million mugshots made public on internet databases for corporate profit, Maryam Jafri's photographs of Asian and African independence ceremonies and Edgardo Aragón's critical cartography and video of everyday conditions in Cachimbo, Mexico that demonstrates the crippling effects imposed by a foreign power.

In addition to the prosyletizing, there was the arming of JEM and Darfur rebels by foreign powers, some pointing to France via Chad, the same country that armed the Hutu in Rwanda.

It is one of the few American towns that has been attacked by a foreign power (during the war of 1812).

«Who wouldn't want to know if the ad appearing next to your story was being paid for by a foreign power?»

What most experts agree on is that just about everyone, from tech companies to the United States intelligence community, was caught completely unaware by a foreign power's ability to «manipulate and influence elections» through social media.

An agreement by foreign powers to cut oil production last week, an effort to boost sagging global per - barrel prices, is being met with skepticism from some in the industry.

Guston once compared the art world to a country occupied by a foreign power.

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.

In the absence of any official warning, some of those contacted by AP brushed off the idea that they were taken in by a foreign power's intelligence service.

OTOH Otto of Greece was «appointed» by foreign powers to his kingdom.

But the former Cabinet minister claimed the PM's Berlin strategy meant he was dictated to by a foreign power to suit its own interests rather than Britain's.