Sentence examples for narrow national from inspiring English sources

Despite a shared commitment to end Europe's monopoly over the leadership of the International Monetary Fund, the Brics nations pursued their own narrow national interests instead of adopting a common position in the horse-trading following Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation last year.

Leaders in four countries insist on satisfying narrow national goals.

But narrow national interests asserted themselves at Nice.

"Everyone is always fighting at the margins over narrow national interests.

In our narrow, national political debate, he offers a rare voice from Britain 2015.

As a historian, she is free from narrow national and sectional prejudices.

There is plenty of evidence that they are well-dug in as well as well-financed and doing better than the narrowing national polls suggest.

According to Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme (1891), Lassalle had "conceived the workers' movement from the narrowest national standpoint"; that is, Lassalle had concentrated on converting Germany to socialism, whereas Marx thought that socialism had to be an international movement.

But if the bluff-calling fails, an abrupt change in American policy towards a more restrained use of force abroad, and a considerably narrower national-interest definition when using it, could be more destabilising than it appears.For many Americans such a change is long overdue because (people hope) it will bring a greater degree of clarity and consistency to the conduct of foreign policy.

Trump has taken a more scripted approach in recent weeks, which have seen Hillary Clinton's lead narrow in national polls.

The public put the armed forces joint first with the BBC, called for Britain to remain a "great power" and by a narrow majority put national interests ahead of values.Actually, there are early signs that Mr Cameron's foreign-policy doctrine combines hard and soft power.