Sentence examples for combative foreign from inspiring English sources

Jacek Kucharczyk, president of the Institute of Public Affairs, an independent thinktank in Warsaw, said Poland's relations with other European powers would now depend on whether Duda sticks to the relatively moderate agenda he campaigned on or embraces his party leader's more combative foreign policy stance.

Lithuania's president, Dalia Grybauskaite, was to blame for a spectacularly stormy meeting last year with Bronislaw Komorowski, her Polish counterpart, say outsiders who were there.The two prime ministers, Audrius Kubilius of Lithuania and Donald Tusk of Poland, get on fine, unlike their combative foreign ministers.

Many feel, of course, that his economic isolationism and combative foreign policy are exactly what America needs, whereas others see his campaign as divisive and fear-mongering at best, and dangerous at worst.

The Iranian electorate has spoken in its decision between two stark alternatives: strengthening civil society and engaging with the world, or turning inward with economic populism and combative foreign policy.

The officials said the plot might indicate a shift to a more combative Iranian foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has implicitly criticized the Bush administration's increasingly combative stance against foreign imports.

But since the election, he has become more forceful in foreign policy, combative and, some say, aggressive in his statements directed at neighboring Armenia, with which it has long been at odds.

Some seven hours before the former ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson was sworn in as Secretary of State, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn strode to the podium in a packed White House Briefing Room and, without advance notice, issued a combative warning to a foreign power.

In a combative statement, Russia's foreign ministry accused Kiev of "deliberately dragging out the delivery of the humanitarian aid" so it could complete a "military cleansing of Luhansk and Donetsk" by Independence Day celebrations on Sunday and before Poroshenko and Putin meet.

In its explanation, the DFB cited that "this combative sport is fundamentally foreign to the nature of women" and that "body and soul would inevitably suffer damage".

Those episodes caused her approval rating to plummet below 30 percent, deepened her reputation as a heavy-handed, combative leader, and scared off many foreign investors.