Example sentences of "foreign and [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An international commission ruled in Washington DC on Jan. 11 that the Chilean government should pay just over US$2,600,000 in compensation to the families of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-73 Allende government , and his US associate , Ronni Moffit . |
| 2 | After a 14-month investigation , two former heads of the DINA secret police under the previous military regime , Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , were charged on Nov. 10 with the murder in 1976 of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-1973 regime of Salvador Allende , and his associate Ronni Moffit . |
| 3 | Russian Foreign and Defence Ministry spokesmen responded by insisting that Russian soldiers had remained neutral throughout the conflict . |
| 4 | But Europe 's obsession with clearing a path to a common foreign and defence policy risks doing just that . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Begin won a slim victory in the Knesset for his foreign and defence policy , though having to concede an inquiry into the Beirut massacres . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there is much more to foreign and defence policy than crisis response , and in these circumstances Congress can play a more meaningful role . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , many International Relations scholars are directly involved in the US foreign and defence policy community . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the Government ever had any ideas about foreign and defence policy , they have run out of them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Discussions during February within the context of the intergovernmental conference ( IGC ) on political union of the European Communities ( EC ) centred on the question of a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 20 | The two others — a common foreign and defence policy , and police and judicial co-operation — would be decided by meetings of relevant EC government ministers and thus remain outside the EC decision-making machinery . |
| 21 | These drafts provided for foreign and defence policy and for issue of police and judicial co-operation to be decided at intergovernmental level outside the normal EC decision-making machinery . |
| 22 | On Oct. 16 the French and German Foreign Ministers published proposals in draft treaty form on foreign and defence policy , which were welcomed by Belgium , Greece , Luxembourg and Spain . |
| 23 | He has specialised knowledge of the UK economy and trade and foreign and defence policy . |
| 24 | ‘ From what President-Elect Clinton has said and , from our own contacts with his team , I am confident that the cornerstones of US foreign and defence policy will remain firmly in place . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Foreign and company ownership often leaves a huge gap between boss and keeper and the traditions . |
| 27 | Second , Titles V and VI make it explicitly clear that just as with other aspects of Community life , the institutions of the EEC , in particular the Commission , are to be fully involved in ‘ Union ’ foreign and home policy . |
| 28 | Finally : ‘ The Commission shall be fully associated with the work carried out in the common foreign and security field ’ ( Article J.9 ) . |
| 29 | Every President since John Kennedy has used the Wall to dramatise the global Communist threat , to assert American leadership of the Western world , and to underpin fundamental foreign and security policy directions . |
| 30 | Euro-hopefuls argue that if Europe had already been committed to a common foreign and security policy , its military contribution in the Gulf would have been swifter and more effective . |