Sentence examples for foreign principles from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, composers made fitful attempts to modernize their art, especially during the Hundred Flowers period, when Mao permitted them to "apply appropriate foreign principles and use foreign musical instruments".

But as Human Rights Watch noted, this argument, which Russia also invoked in 2012, refers to the US Foreign Agent Registration Act, which "covers those organisations and individuals that operate 'under direction and control of a foreign principle'".

During his first year in office, Mr. Fox has abandoned his country's traditional noninterventionist foreign policy principles.

Six months after the DIFC opened, Qatar inaugurated its own Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), which has also grafted foreign legal principles onto its host country.

TOKYO — Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's postponement of a decision on relocating an American military base on Okinawa may be the product of domestic political considerations as much as deeply held foreign policy principles, analysts here said on Tuesday.

President Bush did not want to have to veto the legislation in order to woo Cuban-American voters in Florida, subverting foreign policy principles applied to much of the rest of the world.

Prominent Republicans insist that if the party's disparate factions can come together around a set of economic, social and foreign policy principles in the coming years, they stand a good chance of retaking the presidency, making gains in Congress and repairing some of the damage done through several years of bitter primary battles and divisive legislative bickering.

In a speech here that combined elements of a campaign appearance with a solemn remembrance of lives lost in Iraq and a restatement of his foreign policy principles, Mr. Bush said that "the regime of Saddam Hussein has passed into history" and that it was time to end more than 12 years of sanctions, which have all but halted international trade with Iraq.

China claims its central foreign policy principles are sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference.

China's identification of itself with that of the Third World and Africa and sharing a strong sense of ideological affinity besides its foreign policy principles based on non-interference can be singled out as factors that have bound them together to the extent of what is being debated today.

So the nexus between values and interests is self-evident and renders the conflict over fundamental foreign policy principles irrelevant.