Sentence examples for of foreign commitments from inspiring English sources

Gustavo Coronel, a critic of President Hugo Chávez, says Mr Chávez has made $43 billion worth of foreign "commitments" since 1999.

Reversing his previous skepticism toward Mr. Obama's growing portfolio of foreign commitments, Mr. Romney now implied he would outdo him by advocating a more muscular foreign policy.

At the end of last Sept. a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, under the chairmanship of Sen. Stuart Symington, began a series of hearings intended to establish the full extent & nature of foreign commitments-particularly those that might require military implementation-made by this country in the years in which it has been a superpower.

As a younger son of a non-reigning duke, the absence of any foreign commitments allowed him to remain permanently in Britain the Queen's primary concern and she declared the marriage would go ahead.

Instead, they took on a host of new foreign commitments as they prosecuted a multi-front "global war on terror," and defense was one of the few sectors that fared well in a faltering economy.

Western parent banks were struggling to clean up their balance sheets, which required them to fix their eroding basis structure during ongoing calls for recapitalization, at the expense of their foreign commitments.

"America has no interest in fighting an endless war in Afghanistan," he said then, quoting President Eisenhower about the importance of balancing America's foreign commitments with its domestic needs.

Foreign commitments remain, however, a priority for the Argentine government.

A president should be prudent about foreign commitments.

Traditionally Washington made foreign commitments to enhance U.S. security.

The administration has failed to win new commitments of foreign troops for Iraq beyond the two multinational divisions serving there.