Sentence examples for overseas involvement from inspiring English sources

The prevalent critique of the prayer movement's overseas involvement was chiefly advanced by the journalist Jeff Sharlet, whose 2008 book, "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power," painted an evocative portrait of a cultlike vanguard movement that "recasts theology in the language of empire," and facilitated a right-wing American foreign policy.

And, perhaps most critically, will the need to tailor such a program around American distaste for overseas involvements hamstring it from the start?

What we are steaming toward, at the end of more than 12 years of continual hot warfare, is not so much cold warfare or even peace, but rather a kind of high idle, with the expectation of constant overseas military involvement, at some level, somewhere.

He likes the idea of ending US involvement overseas.

In the show, he also weighs in on unemployment, student debt and American involvement overseas — all of them campaign issues.

He also favors campaign finance reform, a flat tax, reduced American military involvement overseas, abandoning efforts to build a missile shield system, gun ownership rights and abortion rights.

But his view of America resembles that of his father, former Representative Ron Paul, who built a deeply committed following of libertarians and Tea Party Republicans by opposing most American involvement overseas.

Mr. Paul's criticism of American military involvement overseas is at odds with the views of many Republican voters who may otherwise be attracted to his strong antigovernment message.

Supporters of Mr. Kerry and Mr. Hagel say that despite their different responses, their combat experience has had the same effect, making them question the price of American involvement overseas.

Inside government, the reason September 11th appears to have been "a transformative moment," as the senior official I had lunch with put it, is not so much that it revealed the existence of a threat of which officials had previously been unaware as that it drastically reduced the American public's usual resistance to American military involvement overseas, at least for a while.

It also raises anew questions about the standards the administration has used in deciding to use drone strikes to kill Americans suspected of terrorist involvement overseas — notably Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.