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.
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.
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.
Too many foreign distributors focused on the usual talk-heavy techno-orgies (such as Metropolis, Appleseed, Paprika), which left anime firmly mired in geek territory.
With the Ukraine crisis developing and the ceasefire struggling, much of the British and US media foreign coverage focused on the growing strains with Moscow.
A century ago, U.S. foreign policy focused on the brand-new country of Panama.
"American politicians and foreign media focused too exclusively on war and the number killed as the sole indicators of what was wrong in Iraq.
And while foreign media focused intensely on getting to the bottom of what exactly happened to the Russian jet, media in Egypt itself, the country with the most at stake, took an entirely different tack.
