Sentence examples for keep channels open from inspiring English sources

It appears less keen to punish Putin than to keep channels open to him.

The US will be monitoring events closely – though for the moment its embassy in Tripoli is working to keep channels open to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Others seem to be trying to keep channels open to both sides, as they wait to see which party gains a decisive edge, analysts said.

"The only trustworthy thing [the Chinese] have is missiles," says Andrew Yang of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies in Taiwan.The Pentagon, for all its fretting, is trying to keep channels open to the Chinese.

Irrespective of what Mubarak was doing to the Muslim Brotherhood at home, the GID kept channels open to the Ikwan's brothers in Hamas.

As for employers, the best thing they can do to keep returning stars is to keep channels of communication open even long after an overseas assignment has been completed.

"To date, EU policy to keep channels of communications open in Lebanon has allowed it to play a pro-active role in promoting political reform, social development and reconciliation in the country," said the Conciliation Resources group.

"We have several issues we need to address with the government, including its nuclear programme and human rights, and to do that we need to keep channels of communication open".

"Both the general public and the elites believe it is extremely important to keep channels of communication open with countries like Iran," the poll concluded, "and that penalizing or isolating rogue countries is not the way to get them to change".

With Baillet-Latour in German-occupied Belgium, Brundage and IOC vice president Edström did their best to keep channels of communication open between IOC members; according to Guttmann, "He and Edström perceived themselves as keepers of the sacred flame, guardians of an ideal in whose name they were ready once again to act as soon as the madness ended".

The meeting was one of many organised by PEN International to bring writers from Russia and Ukraine together with their fellow authors from neighbouring countries to "talk about peaceful solutions to the current conflict", and keep "channels of public discussion open", said PEN.