Sentence examples for nations affairs from inspiring English sources

China's leaders have never liked international sanctions, calling them interference in other nations' affairs.

But before China's breakout from poverty to arguably the world's No. 2 economy, its default position on foreign policy was to restate the principle of non-interference in other nations' affairs and focus largely on its neighborhood.

He broadens his appeal, including with some conservatives, by warning against foreign entanglements, and arguing that the United States is broke and should stop meddling in other nations' affairs.

Among "the grim consequences" of that period, he said, was the doctrine that nations could intervene in other nations' affairs for humanitarian reasons, as NATO forces did in their bombing of Yugoslavia.

"The Bush doctrine openly rejects nonintervention in other nations' affairs, something that runs counter to the ideal of sovereignty that is so precious in Latin America," said Greg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at New York University.

Abby Martin, who presents a programme from America called Breaking The Set for Russia Today, told viewers she was "strongly against any state intervention in sovereign nations' affairs".

Of course the Middle East would be better off without Iranian meddling in other nations' affairs.

By pursuing a relatively neutral stance on Ukraine, analysts will have less reason to accuse Beijing of reacting to U.S. and Russian interference in weaker nations' affairs with a double-standard.

Though Germany is by no means alone in its skepticism, the conflict has increasingly become a two-nation affair.

Brazil, which is hosting the 2014 World Cup and will not have to take part in the marathon South American qualifying process (which now is a nine-nation affair), said it would play the United States, in either Boston or Washington, on May 30; then face Mexico outside Dallas on June 3.

Collier is better at responding to the objection that he is advocating interference in other nations' internal affairs.