Sentence examples for decisive foreign policy from inspiring English sources

And whomever he names to Secretary of State, Obama will remain the maker, rather than the carrier, of a decisive foreign policy.

Walker declared that the nation needed a "swift and decisive" foreign policy, while insisting that the GOP must find a presidential nominee from "outside Washington".

Their shared nationalism allowed Taylor to devolve foreign policy matters to Clayton with minimal oversight, although no decisive foreign policy was established under their administration.

"We have taken a decisive step," European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Zarif said in a joint statement they each read to reporters.

Eight years of Bush II had vaporized any hope of decisive, progressive "change" in US foreign policy, and, initially, the promise of Obama was a welcome relief for political progressives the world over.

Nearly the same number of Americans said they favored a "cautious" foreign policy as a "decisive" one.

What inhabits Obama is the conviction that the United States "is still the biggest power but not the decisive power," said Jonathan Eyal, a British foreign policy analyst.

The production and consumption of oil is of vital importance to international relations and has frequently been a decisive factor in the determination of foreign policy.

Administration officials and their supporters make the case that, across the board, open-door engagement by itself represents a sharp turn from the past, and they cast Mr. Obama as a decisive change from Mr. Bush on foreign policy.

Of particular interest in this context is, if Fiji's political orientation after 2006 has just been a temporary necessity born out of political isolation or if Fiji's policy of fostering South South relations will remain a decisive element of the country's foreign policy in the long term.

Though foreign policy is not always decisive, perhaps that 80percentt should think again.