Moscow's ambassador to the EU has said that nobody has anything to fear from Russia and that the country does not have any "expansionist views".
Vladimir Chizov, Moscow's ambassador to the EU, told the BBC that Russia did not have expansionist views.
Given the extreme and expansionist views that drive the creationist movement, we should not expect that creationists will give up their battle.
The commission was set to meet in Paris, and Shirley saw it as an opportunity to advance his expansionist views.
Tyler, isolated and outside the two-party mainstream, turned to foreign affairs to salvage his presidency, aligning himself with a southern states' rights faction that shared his fervent slavery expansionist views.
In foreign affairs, Smith was an expansionist, though he viewed "expansionism as brotherhood".
Nasser made secret contacts with Israel in 1954 55, but determined that peace with Israel would be impossible, considering it an "expansionist state that viewed the Arabs with disdain".
He see recent Soviet military ventures as defensive (from their point of view) rather than expansionist in motive.
At first, Leopold I's leading statesmen, Johann Weikhart, Fürst (prince) von Auersperg (dismissed in 1669), and the president of the Court Council of War, Wenzel Eusebius, Fürst von Lobkowitz, remained rather passive in view of the expansionist policies of Louis XIV of France.
In 2003 Ukraine accepted in principle a proposal to establish a "joint economic space" with Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan; however, Ukrainian-Russian relations were strained by Russian accusations of deteriorating conditions for the Russian minority in Ukraine, along with Ukrainian concerns over what it viewed to be Russian expansionist designs in Crimea.
Polk, in Merry's view, certainly was an ambitious expansionist, but in this he merely reflected the electorate's passionate desire to push the country ever westward.
