Plainly a number of foreign volunteers arriving in Spain, intellectuals or not, were shocked by what they saw there, by suffering and atrocity, by the ruthlessness of warfare, brutality and bureaucracy on their own side or, insofar as they were aware of them, the intrigues and political feuds within the republic, by the behaviour of the Russians and much else.
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, however, said France's foreign policy had plainly "brought no good to the French people" and that Hollande should now "act in the interest of the French people – which means changing his policies".
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Public diplomacy is a field predicated on the communication of culture and values to foreign publics; gastrodiplomacy, most plainly put, is the act of winning hearts and minds through stomachs.
His nomination to the coveted and long vacant foreign-affairs portfolio was plainly predicated on his willingness to stay on, even if other hardliners leave the cabinet over the deal.
Sri Lanka's foreign secretary, Palitha Kohona, put it plainly when he said that Sri Lanka's "traditional donors," namely, the United States, Canada and the European Union, had "receded into a very distant corner," to be replaced by countries in the East.
The Bangkok junta, which seized power from an elected government last May, plainly hopes to persuade international investors, trading partners and foreign tourists that it is business as usual in Thailand.
The upcoming debate is supposed to focus on foreign affairs, but global warming, as the term plainly states, is indeed a global problem.
Plainly, some costs of Iraq's recovery will be borne by other foreign donors and by sales of Iraq's oil.
Since the financial crisis, many people have started to doubt whether "foreign management know-how is all that relevant," he says.Russian firms plainly have a head start in Mr Demopoulos's first area, local knowledge.
