Sentences with phrase «in foreign affairs»

While some prime ministers have taken little direct interest in foreign affairs, the majority did.

Foreign policy, and influence in foreign affairs, depends on how much other countries rate us and think we matter.

The country's founders had a bias towards restraint in foreign affairs that held firm for a couple of generations.

One thing is certain: you can not force a president in foreign affairs to follow a policy he does not believe in.

That such is the case in foreign affairs is self - evident, but it is the case as well, if less obviously so, in domestic affairs.

It isn't that important in the foreign affairs aspect since diplomatic ties are based on «recognition».

I believe there should have been a balance of size, scale and number of things in foreign affairs to show the status and dignity of a country involved.

His own inheritance would be of «British retreat in foreign affairs» at a time when power in the word was «shifting rapidly to the east», he claimed.

Pray that nothing really major happens in foreign affairs in the next year.

Joanna earned her B.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and lives between Beijing, China, and San Francisco.

«Cohen's directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and «corporate responsibility» work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states,» Assange said, referring to an e-mail leaked by WikiLeaks claiming to discuss Cohen's activities as Google Ideas chief.

Just after she was born in 1972, her parents took her to live in the United States while her father, Shafqat, was getting his master's degree in foreign affairs at the University of Virginia.

After World War II the executive branch of government argued that it needed absolute power in foreign affairs because (1) in a nuclear age, when missiles can make the trip from Moscow to New York in 20 minutes, there is no time to consult Congress and the people, and (2) the «secret, subversive» techniques of the communists can be challenged only by subversion and secrecy on our part.

In the past 48 hours Blair had gone cold on the job, amid signs that the president may struggle to play any sort of role in foreign affairs.

Generally speaking, a protectorate cedes its defensive authority to another country, usually along with a say in its foreign affairs, in exchange for security guarantees.

Born in 1969 in Columbia, South Carolina, and currently living in Los Angeles, Rodney McMillian received his BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and went on to study art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2002.

April 17, 2018: Professor Caroline Bettinger - Lopez Publishes Essay in Foreign Affairs Magazine: The Long Arc of Human Rights: A Case for Optimism

In an essay published in Foreign Affairs, former U.S. deputy Treasury secretary and investment banker Roger Altman said that although weaknesses will eventually be repaired, «in the interim, they will accelerate trends that are shifting the world's center of gravity away from the United States.»

Where Christianity is highly differentiated and pluralistic in relation to the public sphere, as it is in voluntary forms of Christian religion, the contribution of religion «has been almost entirely directed to peaceful reconciliation internally and peace in foreign affairs.»

«Geoengineering could provide a useful defense for the planet — an emergency shield that could be deployed if surprisingly nasty climatic shifts put vital ecosystems and billions of people at risk,» Victor wrote in Foreign Affairs with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland.

Bernier served as Harper's first industry minister and later in Foreign Affairs.

Corker isn't running for reelection and has criticized Trump for being immature and reckless in foreign affairs, so he's unlikely to shy away from a fight.

Sven Jurschewsky, another retired Canadian foreign service officer who has headed various departments in the foreign affairs ministry, points to an overall malaise in Canada's public service.

Saskia Sassen, in a recent article in Foreign Affairs [1], describes a «wave of consolidation» in global financial markets at the same time as there is a «powerful trend of decentralisation».

On the other hand, economist Larry Summers argues in Foreign Affairs that running deficits can stimulate the economy — like giving a car battery a boost to get it going.

If the returnee hopes to work in foreign affairs, the government could ask the individual to demonstrate proficiency a language other than French, as many Asian nations have a limited number of French speakers.

The precedent of setting too low a threshold for blocking presidential initiative in foreign affairs is unwise.

In the meanwhile he supported Woodrow Wilson's conduct in foreign affairs and broadened the magazine's perspective on the areas in which those affairs were taking place.

Diplomacy may be the art of letting someone else have your way, but, these days, disagreements over what constitutes the American way in foreign affairs are profound.

Eight years of a bumbling religious fundamentalist, driven by a naïve ideology in foreign affairs and an outmoded attachment to markets (and to wealthy friends) in domestic affairs, were enough.

When Lord Granville became British Foreign Secretary in 1870, he was informed by the Permanent Undersecretary that «he had never, during his long experience, known so great a lull in foreign affairs, and that he was not aware of any important question that he (Lord Granville) should have to deal with.»

Another possibility, less theoretical, is that the President has taken to bowing, because he is still a novice in foreign affairs.

The disaster of the 2003 — 2006 occupation of Iraq lost the Republicans the presumption that they were the party of realism (meaning common sense rather than ideology) and competence in foreign affairs.

@Machavity Case law has interpreted the constitutional prohibition on state level participation in foreign affairs more broadly although there are a few things are are permitted (e.g. sister city relationships, budgetary decisions with international implications).

While his goal of robust multilateralism may be compelling, his own actions in foreign affairs have not lived up to his current rhetoric.

Salmond had previously caused controversy in foreign affairs when he refused to meet the Dalai Lama.

He called Israel (D - Huntington) «a true model for one to follow,» saying that even though he had held a top Democratic leadership post and gained an expertise in foreign affairs, he had still paid close attention to the needs of district residents.

But the prime minister also included some of the Liberal party's old guard, putting former party leader Stéphane Dion in foreign affairs and giving one of his closest advisers, MP Dominic LeBlanc, the role of government leader in the House of Commons.

Speaking to BBC Two's Newsnight Michael Connarty said the red lines were being met in foreign affairs, taxation and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, but not in several other areas.

In the Foreign Affairs Committee, which I attended as an expert, the student debate focused on Pakistan's relations with the US, Afghanistan and India.

He was previously a UK civil servant who specialised in foreign affairs, defence and national security policy.

On less controversial territory, Mr Cameron said elsewhere in the interview that while Tony Blair had made «some great steps» in foreign affairs during the last nine years, his domestic record was more questionable.

It would also be very unlike Norway to be obstructive in foreign affairs.

in his foreign affairs office and for the National Hispanic Institute.

On the party's rebel left, Cousins briefly served on the party's front bench in a foreign affairs portfolio before being stripped of his position along with fellow frontbencher Ann Clwyd in 1995.