Sentence examples for foreign obligations from inspiring English sources

It is calculated by determining the difference between Japan's income from foreign sources against payments on foreign obligations.

Visits to the Soviet Union in 1927, 1929, and 1932 led him to conclude his foreign obligations and return to Moscow once and for all.

The nation's net foreign obligations, which include debt and the claim on American profits by foreign investors, are equal to more than one-quarter of total American output.

The government wants to keep its exchange rate to avoid default on $130 billion of debt because a devaluation would increase the cost of servicing foreign obligations.

The letter signaled an escalation in the war of words over the federal debt ceiling, which has already technically been breached, leaving the Treasury Department scrambling to meet the government's domestic and foreign obligations.

The current account surplus, the difference between Japan's income from foreign sources and its payments on foreign obligations, decreased to 775 billion yen ($6.5 billion) in July, the Finance Ministry said.

"You had foreign policy obligations running up against law enforcement obligations," said a former Clinton administration official who was involved in antidrug policy then.

Like certain other countries to whom Austria was debtor, the United States notified the Reich after the Anschluss that it expected Berlin to assume Austria's foreign financial obligations.

During that time the country was unable to meet its foreign debt obligations, but new financial arrangements by creditor banks and a 50 percent devaluation of the CFA franc helped the country toward economic recovery by the mid-1990s.

Part of the delay in the rules, a source close to the negotiations said, was the Obama administration making sure they did not interfere with any foreign trade obligations.

Correa, a University of Illinois graduate, gained an early reputation as a maverick, defying international financiers by defaulting on $3.9bn in foreign debt obligations and rewriting contracts with oil multinationals to secure a higher share of revenues for Ecuador.