Sentence examples for strategic preoccupation from inspiring English sources
Nor, despite Mr Obama's insistence that he sees Europe's security as indivisible from America's, is there likely to be much change in America's strategic preoccupation with China.
Mr. Campbell says that the doctrine led to resistance partly because it was aimed not at China, today's strategic preoccupation, but at Japan and Germany, democratic allies.
Noting that Europe was no longer the United States' main strategic preoccupation, she said, "The U.S. has argued the need for an increased engagement in Asia, and there is a risk it will see the E.U. as a less relevant partner given our relative strategic weakness there".
Questions of strategic stakes are generally distant to daily preoccupations.
The White House calls it the "pivot" towards Asia - President Barack Obama's strategic refocus on engaging fast-growing Asian nations, away from the preoccupation of the previous decade with war and terrorism in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Keeping its head above water The traffic police Fata Fergana Here comes trouble Chasing ghosts ReprintsFor China's strategic planners, securing sea lanes against hostile powers has become perhaps the chief preoccupation.
About 30% of all women taking insulin struggle with subclinical symptoms of disordered eating, such as restrictive eating, a preoccupation with weight and shape, feelings of guilt after eating, and strategic misuse of insulin for weight control (46).
Good governance is often construed as an essentially humanitarian preoccupation, a civil-society concern that is forever trumped by more pressing strategic obligations.
Periods when the over-riding preoccupation has been lowering the national debt have coincided with industrial, economic and strategic decline.
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