Sentence examples for foreign policy instruments from inspiring English sources

OPIC is above-all an organization dedicated to free markets, and it has become one of America's most agile foreign policy instruments.

Loosely affiliated with the Republican Party, the International Republican Insitute IRII) works closely with the the National Endowment for Democracy and United States foreign policy instruments, including the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development, to support economic and political development programs around the world.

These questions have relevance but they demonstrate poor understanding of sanctions as a foreign policy instrument.

Indeed, the Kremlin tried repeatedly to re-establish its influence in Belarus and several former Soviet republics by using its energy resources as a foreign policy instrument.

The allegations date from before Elf was privatized, in 1994, in an era when the government often used the giant oil group as a foreign policy instrument.

But why should home licence fee payers meet the bill for the provision of an international public good and/or a foreign policy instrument?

EU governments are alarmed that the aim of turning the new service into a powerful foreign policy instrument is being blocked and undermined by the European commission.

We have known for years that the Pakistani government has been supporting the Taliban, harboring terrorists on its soil, and using violent extremism as a foreign policy instrument to intimidate Afghanistan, the region and the world.

It is economically and strategically vital for Putin that EU countries remain reliant on Russia's vast supplies of gas and oil, which he has consistently used as a foreign policy instrument.

Gazprom "is way too much an instrument of the Russian government to project its power"; governments should not use their state-owned companies as foreign-policy instruments, he argues.

It is also testing whether that most characteristic EU foreign-policy instrument, soft power, can work beyond the immediate neighbourhood.