Public outrage at numerous such incidents caused some government figures to fear that these tactics would become counterproductive in confronting Taliban influence.
In a report on the new safeguards plan, Mark Hibbs, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Russia's stance on the IAEA board was being dictated directly by President Vladimir Putin, who sees it as an arena for confronting US influence.
With the military fight against Isil finished in Iraq, the US is focusing on how to try to confront Iranian influence in the country.
In his tweets this year, Trump has seemingly given the energetic Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, carte blanche in his mission to confront Iranian influence in the Middle East — no matter the many warnings of Washington's foreign policy establishment that the young Saudi royal is in over his head.
Empowering American-favored rebel forces to confront the influence of the hard-line Islamist groups that are also fighting against Mr. Assad may backfire and intensify rivalries, causing the fault lines of the civil war to break down even further and turn the increasingly dominant hard-line Islamists against Western-backed rebels.
In a speech Prince delivered in late 2009, a copy of which was obtained by The Nation, Prince spoke of the need to confront Iranian influence in the Middle East, charging that Iran has a "master plan to stir up and organize a Shia revolt through the whole region".
The music industry is clearly confronting the emboldening influence of the Internet.
To succeed will involve rebooting a genuinely representative democracy, including by confronting the pernicious influence of political lobbying and a myriad of other rent-seeking techniques.
Critics portray the New York struggle as a national test for populist forces confronting big companies' influence, and for the contest within the Democratic Party between its grass-roots and business-friendly wings.
The Earth System Governance series is designed to address the challenge that fundamental and applied research faces in confronting the human influence on every biological and physical system on the planet: almost no species, land area, or part of the oceans has remained unaffected by the expansion of the human species.
Moreover, Viereck's belief that the United States could be a moderating influence, confronting the forces that threaten freedom and democracy without succumbing to liberal optimism, became a central tenet of conservative thought and, with the arrival of neoconservatives in positions of power in Washington, beginning in the nineteen-eighties, of American foreign policy.
