Sentence examples for western proposals from inspiring English sources

Diplomats in Brussels said this amounted to opposition to the western proposals.

China has sided with Russia to try to impede Western proposals for greater actions against Syria, which is a close ally of Iran and has been using bloody means to try to stamp out a rebellion.

Any prospect of international military intervention has in effect been ruled out in the face of Russian opposition to what Moscow regards as one-sided Western proposals in the U.N. Security Council to rein in Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The western proposals, with the possible exception of Glenshane as noted above, consolidate SF's areas of strength.

Soviet opposition to all Western proposals as attempts to impose "American monopolistic capitalism" on the world (Goodman 1953, 234) made the world federalist movement's goal of establishing a universal federation infeasible.

Later Soviet leaders and elites who rejected Western proposals for world federation somewhat inconsistently envisaged the transcendence of nation-states and world capitalism, and the establishment of a world socialist economy governed by a "Bolshevik World State" (Goodman 1953, 231).

He added that the Western proposal was "linked to the sanctions policy and the disarmament policy".

Further signaling that they expect a grand gesture, Iranian officials last week turned down a Western proposal to gradually lift sanctions on trading in gold in return for the closing of a mountain bunker enrichment facility called Fordo.

US officials have been privately admitting as much in recent weeks, citing the brutal crackdown on the opposition green movement and what they see as continued Iranian intransigence in failing to accept a western proposal to resolve the standoff over Iran's uranium enrichment programme.

But the expected Western-backed proposal may also try to use the LLRC to put pressure on the government by asking for other recommendations to be implemented.

Negotiations led by the United Nations to resolve Kosovo's status began 18 months ago but have been stymied by the refusal of Russia, a Serbian ally, to support a Western-backed proposal to grant Kosovo independence with international supervision.