Sentence examples for basis of foreign from inspiring English sources

Americans almost never elect Presidents on the basis of foreign policy.

Even Malaysia and Singapore, with well-funded and efficient police and security services, appear to have made their first arrests on the basis of foreign tip-offs.

"Far from being exploited by multinational companies, these countries and many others like them have achieved unprecedented rates of economic growth on the basis of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the export-led growth that followed".

Weinstein is indeed a throwback to the ways of classic Hollywood he has never shunned money or success, but his reputation was made on the basis of foreign films, independent films, and other films, at low budgets or high ones, that reflect the world view of an original filmmaker, whether Steven Soderbergh or Quentin Tarantino, Errol Morris or Martin Scorsese.

As noted by Richard N. Haass, an assistant secretary of state under Colin L. Powell and now president of the Council on Foreign Relations: "It's hard to imagine more than a handful of voters pulling the lever on the basis of foreign policy".

The rationale for the EPOSTL came partially from the CEFR, a guideline describing a common basis of foreign language teaching/learning guidelines across Europe, in that both try to describe competencies in the form of can-do descriptors (Newby, 2007).

IT is rare for world leaders to be selected on the basis of their foreign policy acumen or experience.

When President Jimmy Carter called for human rights as the primary basis of our foreign policy some 25 years ago, he was ridiculed by conservatives as being naïve.

"We established human rights as the basis of our foreign policy, whereas in the past our government had been in bed with every dictator on earth if they supported our economic framework.

He expressed his pleasure at being able to enter into direct relations with French statesmen and asserted that the alliance with France is the basis of Russian foreign policy.

Rejecting the notion that war between East and West was "fatalistically inevitable," Khrushchev declared that "the Leninist principle of coexistence of states with different social systems" was the basis of the foreign policy of the U.S.S.R. Khrushchev also used the Twentieth Congress to consolidate his leadership by promoting persons loyal to him to high party office.