Sentence examples for foreign distraction from inspiring English sources
He did not want another foreign distraction ahead of his presidential re-election bid next year.
With a fractured EU, and weakened NATO, Putin, facing an ongoing economic and social crisis in Russia, needs another foreign distraction around which to rally his people.
Burns's devotion to the United States as a subject also requires the removal of foreign distractions.
CARRYING grand plans to shrink and reshape the British state with him into Downing Street last May, David Cameron was hoping for few foreign distractions.
They both have domestic reasons to seek foreign distractions, and both are aware of precedents that encourage action rather than caution.
"You put all that together and they don't need foreign policy distractions at this point," Mr. Lieberthal said.
But tensions with Pakistan will remain a major foreign-policy distraction, and another war with Pakistan would be a serious setback for India's global ambitions.
The creative space given to architects in Beijing — despite complaints that too many are foreign — offers a welcome distraction to the ambient ugliness.
"The whole issue about powers for other parts of the UK, constitutional change, this will be a huge distraction from foreign policy issues".
Sometimes highly specific research interests of foreign scientists are a distraction from core monitoring work that needs to be done.
Will he put behind him once and for all two misconceptions that have bedeviled his campaign that foreign policy is a distraction, and that, when Romney does dip into foreign policy, it's enough simply to take swipes at Obama?" Kristol wrote.
