Sentences with phrase «vital national interests»

Daniel Drezner (supported by Megan McArdle and Glenn Reynolds, but not by Brad DeLong) has responded to my criticism of his claim that the US should be able to invade foreign countries whenever its «vital national interests» are threatened.

In its mission to ensure a safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life, DOT collects, accesses, and uses significant amounts of data every day.

The United States Department of Transportation's (DOT) mission is to serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible, and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.

In its mission to ensure a safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life, the Department of Transportation (DOT) collects, accesses and uses significant amounts of data every day.

DOT's commitment to EJ is consistent with DOT's overall mission «to serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible, and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests that enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.»

Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.

The prime minister insists Britain's vital national interests have been protected and the so - called «red lines» have been secured.

The Liberal Democrats, he said were currently an «obstruction to our vital national interests», and it was crucial for the House to be united on the future of Europe:

Also, as some experts in international law have already stated, when faced with a stark choice between pursuing what they perceive to be their vital national interests or abiding by international law, states would most often than not choose the first over the latter.

Also, Russia does not want to have bad relations with Ukraine, it was forced into the current conflict by the need to protect its vital national interests in the Black Sea.

The former would counsel undue isolationism on the grounds that very few humanitarian causes genuinely engage vital national interests.

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

A powerful military deterrent and a resolve to pursue effective diplomacy can prevent war on the Korean peninsula, preserve the lives of the millions living in Seoul (and probably tens of thousands of American service members), and secure American vital national interests in Asia.

Now, the government is making it clear that it considers developing our oilsands and ensuring the product can be exported to markets around the world is a vital national interest worth fighting for.

German power companies, with the backing of the German government, made contracts to deliver pipes for pipelines to the Soviet Union -LRB-... that long ago) in exchange for preferential gas prices, and since then both sides have a vital national interest in a stable, predicatable exchange of gas for money.

Unless «vital national interest» is construed so narrowly as to be equivalent to «self - defence», this is a direct repudiation of the central founding principle of international law, prohibiting aggressive war as a crime against peace, indeed, the supreme international crime.

Not exact matches

Like the automakers, higher education is «vital to our national interests.»

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Plant Protection Act (PPA) provide a robust regulatory framework that ensures the protection of the environment and the vital economic interests of U.S. farmers.

It is in this vital national - security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.

In a Downing Street web chat Mr Miliband said: «The new institutional reforms, which protect British sovereignty in vital areas of national interest should be passed or rejected by parliament».

Her response that foreign policy took into account the military's security interests but is made on wider considerations of national interest raised the vital question of who defines «national interest» in Pakistan.

The core and vital interest becomes the national interest,» he stated.

I therefore denounce the Democratic National Committee Chairman, and his accomplices such as London stooge George Soros, for conducting a flagrantly fraudulent operation against the vital interests of the United States and civilization generally.

She told MPs: «The threats we face are serious and it is vital for our national interest that we have the full spectrum of our defences at full strength to meet them.

An amendment to the 2013 spending bill passed in March limits NSF's political science funding to cases «when a project is deemed vital to national security or the country's economic interests.»

«In general, the United States considers scientific work to be vital to U.S. national interests and we are not seeking to isolate Russia's society.

Now in its twelfth year, the national competition aims to encourage greater interest in Chinese language and culture — vital to the UK's future prosperity.

The Maritime Administration's National Security Objective, which supports the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Security Initiative, is to assure that sufficient sealift capability and intermodal transportation infrastructure exist to support vital homeland and national security inNational Security Objective, which supports the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Security Initiative, is to assure that sufficient sealift capability and intermodal transportation infrastructure exist to support vital homeland and national security innational security interests.

WHEREAS, the United States is blessed with abundant energy resources; and WHEREAS, it is in our national interests to have a diverse and balanced energy mix that takes full advantage of all of our energy resources; and WHEREAS, a reliable and affordable electricity supply is vital to economic...

ECJ, however, did not make the same mistake, and the question of vital security interests in this matter was therefore left for the national Court to determine.

A fair and open internet is vital to the national and global interest.

To meet the nation's growing need for affordable rental housing and homeownership opportunities, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently called on Congress to maintain its support for vital housing tax incentives, including the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the mortgage interest deduction and real estate tax deductions.