Sentence examples for regional standing from inspiring English sources

It is with the fall of Konna that Paris, which never loses sight of the French hostages still held in the region and Areva's uranium deposits, grasped that its economic interests and regional standing were seriously at risk.

A settlement, the Israelis believe, would reduce Iran's regional standing and influence.

However beneficial for Russia's regional standing, though, the agreement seemed to risk again derailing its long-delayed membership application for the World Trade Organization.

Pragmatic considerations like those have done little to calm the anxiety of Arab governments that see in Iran a threat to their own regional standing and national interests.

Shi Yinhong, an international relations professor and government adviser from China's Renmin University, said Beijing believed improving previously frosty relations with Manila would boost its regional standing and, eventually, "weaken America's strategic position in the western Pacific".

And unthinkable until recently in Guangdong province in the south and Qinghai in the west, not one of the 29 police chiefs at the administrative tier below the province, the prefecture, is also the political-legal head.A corollary of this trend is a second blow to the police chiefs' standing: they are also being denied places on the Communist Party's regional standing committees.

Kleiman's style is a sort of high-end vérité, wobbly realism from handheld cameras (the film was partly shot in regional Victoria, standing in for eastern Europe) matched with more classically graded production values.

In the immediate term, therefore, Iran should seek the support of regional partners to establish a standing regional security forum to discuss issues of strategic concern, including the threat from Daesh, cross-border terrorism, and internally displaced populations.

So standing regional food reserves should be set up to enhance access to affordable stocks as soon as needs begin to rise.

There is almost no discussion on the costs of a strike to take out that nuclear capacity — be it by Israel or the U.S — in lives, money, and regional and global standing.

The intense pressure on Iran over its defiance of numerous UN Security Council resolutions continues to cast a dark shadow over Iran's regional and international standing.