Sentences with phrase «foreign policy officials»

Yet a preventive military strike is precisely what America's key foreign policy officials are threatening to unleash.

Pam Keith, an attorney who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2016, and Lauren Baer, a foreign policy official in the Obama administration whose family owns Baer's Furniture, qualified to run for the seat this week.

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His comment followed Abe's remarks on Monday that buying foreign bonds, considered an extreme measure by many officials, may be one policy option for the BOJ.

Mueller's team announced charges in October against three other Trump campaign officials, former chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates, and a former campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.

George Papadopoulos, a former foreign - policy adviser to the campaign, pleaded guilty earlier this year to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

An early foreign - policy adviser and aide to President Donald Trump's campaign team secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, the officials told the Post.

Chinese and Canadian officials meeting at a seminar on asset management and economic development in the central and western regions of China, feel that the Chinese government's preferential policies for the introduction of foreign investment in the region, along with an abundance of natural resources and the booming infrastructure development, offer opportunities for economic cooperation between...

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

White House officials on Wednesday describe North Korea as an «urgent» threat to national security and a «top foreign policy priority.»

Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2012, Roosevelt was an associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he helped shape monetary policy by providing fixed income, foreign exchange and macroeconomic research to senior Federal Reserve officials.

With Flynn's departure, European officials said they hope Pence, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson become the dominant players in Trump's foreign policy.

It is, of course, illegal for an incoming Administration to discuss policies with foreign officials before taking office, as it implies authority they do not yet have.

The Nunes memo alleges that FBI and Justice Department officials relied on an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page, who served on the Trump campaign's foreign policy advisory team.

Social network theorists and activists give the event a veneer of authenticity, but in truth it boasts a toxic piñata of attendees: U.S. officials, telecom magnates, security consultants, finance capitalists and foreign - policy tech vultures like Alec Ross (Cohen's twin at the State Department).

• Former contra and ex-CIA officials have publicly testified that U.S. officials encourage the use of terrorism to advance foreign - policy interests.

But one can hardly imagine a more damning indictment of President Obama and certain unnamed «senior administration officials» on his foreign policy team.

In his Elihu Root Lectures, published under the title The Artillery of the Press: Its Influence on American Foreign Policy (Harper & Row, 1966), Reston, borrowing a phrase from Thomas Jefferson, spoke of the relationship between reporters and officials.

And today it is the cultural imagination of the Islamic world» not its oil wealth or official foreign policies» that makes the region so volatile.

With this in hand, we can then ask which better explains the observable pattern of internal deliberations, official discourse, symbolic gestures, and even the nature and timing of substantive foreign policy actions in the case in question.

The «royal prerogative», a pre-democratic relic of monarchical rule, gives the Prime Minister, ministers and officials the power to make «foreign policy» and go to war without ever being required to seek parliamentary or popular approval.

Nevertheless, in March 2012, Serbia became an official candidate for EU membership and started to harmonize its domestic and foreign policies with the European Union.

Meanwhile former shadow Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty MP pledged to raise the matter with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, stating: «These further revelations about the shadowy ERG and their influence over the government in pushing an ultra hard Brexit agenda, in conflict with official government policy, are deeply concerning.

Whitehall officials pointed to common interests in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan - but observers pointed out the biggest foreign policy intervention since the Cold War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, would have been unlikely to meet with joint support.

For the first time in seven years, New York City officials expect the number of foreign visitors to decrease, a drop they attribute to the protectionist policies and rhetoric of Trump.

The trip also gave Cuomo a chance to talk with Israeli officials about foreign policy, a subject he rarely engages as a governor who prides himself on staying close to home.

Two other Trump campaign officials, Manafort associate Rick Gates and foreign policy advisor George Papadapoulous were also charged as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible campaign ties to Russia

Official Labour policy is to renew the deterrent, but Mr Corbyn — along with his ally and newly appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry — has sought to change the party's stance.

Developed in consultation with foreign ministries, defense and education officials, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, among other groups, it stipulates that countries agree to assist victims of attacks on schools; help to keep classes running; investigate violent incidents; promote «conflict - sensitive» education policies to lessen tension among diverse social or ethnic groups; and implement various other measures.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

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The knock on Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaObama's rush for foreign policy «wins» to blame for crisis in Myanmar White House official mocked «dying» McCain at internal meeting Trump's confirmation chaos in perspective MORE from many quarters has been that he's too conciliatory,» said McKibben, head of the climate advocacy group 350.org.

The newly passed Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom (IRF) Act 2016 amends the 1998 bill and makes religious freedom an official part of US foreign policy.

Our practitioners include retired diplomats, as well as officials from the US Departments of State and Defense who analyze US foreign policy and that of other nations on behalf of clients.

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On 6 January 2017, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official responded to a December 2016 letter sent by Article 36 and six other UK members of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that called on the government to establish national policy specifying «the measures necessary to ensure that weapons remain under human control in the future.»

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