Sentence examples for foreign interventions from inspiring English sources

They have a language (Pashto), an elaborate traditional code of legal and moral conduct (Pashtunwali), a habit of crossing the largely unmarked border at will, and a centuries-long history of foreign interventions that ended badly for the foreigners.

The age of empires and foreign interventions was over.

But so have military coups, civil wars, foreign interventions and other nondemocratic means.

The answer has to do with a fundamental imbalance between insurgent groups and foreign interventions.

To believe that foreign interventions make or unmake revolution is to deny the responsibility of states and people for themselves.

Yemen's history is marked by foreign interventions that have failed to reckon with the complexity of the country's politics.

Some Defense officials see the continued focus on post-9/11 foreign interventions as problematic over the long term.

Robert F. Ellsworth and Dimitri K. Simes have called our foreign interventions for democracy a policy of "salvation without representation".

He notes that American conservatives have traditionally opposed foreign interventions, and that Mr. Bush campaigned against "nation building".

"We will not accept or listen to any foreign interventions or dictations," he said.

But there is an argument that Mr. Obama's own caution about foreign interventions put him in this box.