Sentence examples for foreign focus from inspiring English sources

The emphasis in Riyadh, beset by regional problems, turbulence in the oil markets, job-hungry youth, worries about the Islamic State and an irritating foreign focus on human rights, is on stability and continuity.

Violence in neighbouring Yemen, a turbulent oil market, the threat of the jihadis of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, as well as at home, a young, job-hungry generation, liberals demanding freedoms, an irritating foreign focus – by people if not governments – on human rights, are all concerns for ageing royals who are often criticised as dysfunctional and corrupt.

Europeans feel they are taken for granted by a United States whose foreign policy focus has shifted.

Most foreign observers focus on Moscow and St Petersburg, but economic growth in the regions has been considerable.

But with budget pressures and President Obama's avowed desire to shift America's foreign policy focus to Asia, that is less realistic this time.

With Waxman and Harman, however, their foreign policy focus seems to be Israel first.

The South African government itself identified the need for a renewed and coherent foreign policy focus.

Naturally, most of them wanted to spend more money -- they just argued about how much on what -- and all wanted a foreign policy focused on killing foreigners.

In a separate news conference, William Hague, the foreign secretary, focused his attention on the case of Ms. Fletcher, the police officer killed in London.

But it has certainly been shaped in English".Now he has to reconcile these views with a foreign policy focused on Asia.

But that late recognition is a far cry from Mr. Bush's initial promise of a foreign policy focused on spreading prosperity and democracy throughout the hemisphere.