Example sentences of "foreign [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it blew massive holes in Mr Major 's argument that Maastricht means fewer powers for the European Commission — and no common foreign or defence policy . |
| 2 | Threats , not pillars , will decide whether the members devise joint foreign or defence policies . |
| 3 | On the other hand , he had the last word whenever he cared to have it , not just on foreign or defence policy but on any aspect of policy . |
| 4 | It is possible to end up teaching both EFL and ESOL and , if appropriate , a foreign or community language . |
| 5 | By pre-arrangement the debate was limited to foreign and defence matters , which Mr Ford considered his strong suit because he had been a congressman and a vice-president while his opponent , Jimmy Carter , had been a mere governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer . |
| 6 | If the foreign and defence policy-makers may be accused of insufficient attention to the economic aspects of their policies , it is far from clear that the economic arguments were pressed in a manner most likely to bring about a re-assessment of overseas commitments . |
| 7 | One idea is that before or at the next French-British summit in late spring , the foreign and defence ministers on both sides will meet to review progress . |
| 8 | But Europe 's obsession with clearing a path to a common foreign and defence policy risks doing just that . |
| 9 | In particular , ‘ Interception may be necessary to protect our national security at international level to provide secret intelligence in the foreign and defence areas . |
| 10 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |
| 11 | And I 've always thought it [ the Report ] did for foreign and defence policy-making and intelligence … what the Crossman and Castle diaries did for economic and domestic policy-making . |
| 12 | Begin won a slim victory in the Knesset for his foreign and defence policy , though having to concede an inquiry into the Beirut massacres . |
| 13 | It was essentially a scheme which would have entailed the coordination of foreign and defence policies outside the Treaty of Rome . |
| 14 | For example , in the web of agencies which surround the US presidency and make key foreign and defence policy decisions , Domhoff ( 1970 , 1978b ) claims to detect clear evidence of capitalist control over both popular and elite opinion-making agencies , which set the agenda for policy-making . |
| 15 | In the domestic policy arena , there can be no doubt that the legislature remains an institution of great consequence ; however , in the overlapping realms of foreign and defence policy , the pendulum of power has swung rather more sharply in the direction of the president . |
| 16 | It is also claimed that the irrational and inefficient procedures of pluralistic decision making are inappropriate in foreign and defence policy , where considered rational responses in the national interest are required . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , there is much more to foreign and defence policy than crisis response , and in these circumstances Congress can play a more meaningful role . |
| 18 | In Chapter Two it was noted that although presidents face many difficulties in imposing their will on the American political system their chances of doing so are rather greater in foreign and defence policy than in domestic affairs . |
| 19 | The invasion of Cambodia by US troops in 1970 can be seen as the high point in a twenty-year erosion of the legislature 's role in the making of foreign and defence policy . |
| 20 | It was argued in the Senate that presidents were using executive agreements not for minor matters , as originally intended , but as vehicles for entering into major foreign and defence policy commitments without reference to congress . |
| 21 | For example , many International Relations scholars are directly involved in the US foreign and defence policy community . |
| 22 | Let us look at the implications of these arguments a little more by examining the implications , for welfare and for social policy , of policy developments in those important policy areas that no one defines as social policy : foreign and defence policy , and economic policy . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , had this country adopted the supine , innocents-abroad foreign and defence policies of the Opposition parties , the reforms and changes that have taken place in the Soviet Union would not have resulted in President Boris Yeltsin being the president of Russia ? |
| 24 | If the Government ever had any ideas about foreign and defence policy , they have run out of them . |
| 25 | In principle , and in theory , it may be appealing to believe that we can all unite and go along together with common defence and foreign policies , but the reality — and after the Gulf war , I must say , the experience , too , to some extent — suggests that we have not yet developed the degree of cohesion and common purpose that must must be a prerequisite for common foreign and defence policies . |
| 26 | The fact is , however , that our foreign and defence policies are linked . |
| 27 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 28 | If the Labour party is abdicating the right to retain foreign and defence policy in this country , it is not speaking for the country , and the Government will exploit that against it in the next general election . |
| 29 | I hope that we shall make progress , along the cautious lines suggested by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , on a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 30 | A report on defence was to be presented by AMU Foreign and Defence Ministers at the next Maghreb summit . |