Sentence examples for foreign attention from inspiring English sources

Russians often particularly cite China as a rival for foreign attention and money.

She is flattered by the foreign attention but says that Nigerians are still her most important audience.

The official narrative and much foreign attention has focused on the more easily grasped death of Mr. Heywood in November.

Tamil and other politicians may also push harder.The summit over, some activists fear a government crackdown as foreign attention moves on.

Similarly, some reckon the Israeli government's professed interest in rebuilding Gaza will wane once foreign attention shifts elsewhere (see our story, "A state of things to come", here).

The latest report on the region by the International Crisis Group (ICG), a think-tank, shows how the government's own missteps are escalating tensions, which, in turn, will draw increasing foreign attention.

Congregants met at a park the following Sunday, enduring a snowstorm and drawing foreign media attention.

Like many a president before him, Obama devoted his foreign policy attention to the Middle East and Russia.

This is not pie-in-the-sky lefty logic, a rhetorical ploy aimed at refocusing foreign policy attention back onto the domestic sphere, security implications be damned.

According to The Associated Press, the show garnered far more foreign media attention than Dutch viewers, "a possible indication that this country's long-held reputation as a tolerant nation always ready to welcome foreigners is a thing of the past".

From New Delhi, where foreign policy attention is usually focused on Pakistan and China, it is easy to forget that Sri Lanka remains a potent, explosive issue in Tamil Nadu, roughly three years after the Sri Lankan government defeated Tamil rebels to end of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war.