Given this fragmented picture many Somalis are more interested in preserving their old lifeline of remittances than in new deals agreed at foreign talking shops.
He and Odebrecht deny any untoward dealings: both say that the firm simply offered Lula hospitality in foreign talking-shops that it sponsored.
Everywhere in this steamy, tropical town are foreign investors talking shop in upscale cafes, expat fortune-seekers toasting their fates in wine bars, cranes stalking the rooftops of a skyline that seems to grow before your eyes and — on the downside — traffic that puts even the most congested American city to shame.
Perhaps it is best to imitate Mr Hale and talk about "talking in" foreign languages, or to take after Mr Doner, and merely say which ones you are comfortable in.
When you look back on it, the world would have done well to listen to them, but they were often dismissed in foreign policy circles as talking about "women's issues," marginalized in that familiar way.
As Bush discovered the hard way with failure after failure in foreign policy, big talk doesn't lead to achieved outcomes no matter how chummy you are with your fellow leaders.
Nearly a dozen of the Republicans who are running for president spent last weekend in South Carolina talking about foreign policy, and to any viewer who stumbled across the event on C-SPAN, it sounded like a contest in ferocity.
Before this assignment, I spent three and a half years reporting in Iraq, where foreign correspondents talked endlessly of the variety of ways in which one could die — car bombs, firefights, being abducted and then beheaded.
Behind the tightly packed paparazzi stood white vans with enormous satellite dishes on the roofs, and journalists talking, some in foreign languages, while soundmen in headphones hovered.
In this post, Kiselyov has overseen an expansion of Sputnik News and Russia Today, which peddle the Kremlin's talking points in foreign languages.
Drunken skeletons, they stand outside smoking and talking in foreign accents.
