They are right that the region's conflicts are too many, too complex and too overlapping to be settled by foreign military action alone.
It would nevertheless be wrong to portray Mr O'Neill as fighting a lone rearguard action against foreign aid.
The US has threatened to take action against foreign firms and institutions dealing with the Iranian central bank.
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Although the idea was promptly dismissed, this has created jitters overseas and amongst locals worried about the effects of such action on foreign investment.
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Business leaders will remember a time when U.S. companies were more or less alone in being exposed to legal action for foreign commercial bribery.
So far, legal action by foreign firms has proved nearly useless.
In a well-off summer community, a property-owner's views on affirmative action or foreign aid have nothing to do with where he stands on such issues as three-acre zoning or who should be eligible for beach-parking permits.
Messrs Katzenstein and Keohane cite a December 2004 poll, conducted by Global Market Insite, in which thousands of consumers in eight countries (Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain and the United States) were asked two questions about 53 American companies: would they avoid American products because of recent American foreign policy and military action?
Although they accept that military action should be taken against al-Qaida and foreign fighters, they say that that action has to be by the Pakistani army within the territory of Pakistan, and that the military approach toward the Taliban that has been used, off and on for the last two years in the tribal areas of Pakistan that border Afghanistan, has proved an unmitigated disaster.
One reason: American comedies don't translate as well as action flicks to foreign audiences.
On 18 April it was revealed that a Libyan military commander, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, was taking legal action against former foreign secretary Jack Straw for allegedly agreeing to his rendition to Gaddafi's Libya via British territory in 2004.
Action movies always outsell foreign art films in which people just sit around and talk.
If the judge agrees, the company can take civil action against the infringing foreign site.
The Cuban delegation to the U.N. has asked the Security Council to delay action until the Cuban foreign minister arrives in the United States, possibly on Tuesday.
Security Council action on Syria, foreign intervention seems unlikely.
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The lesson here is one for creditors: It is not particularly easy to bring a fraudulent transfer action, especially where foreign transactions and entities are involved such that proof of the fraudulent transfer may be difficult to obtain.
With the country only producing 2 million pounds, that leaves plenty of room for foreign suppliers to get in on the action.
The Premier League has already taken action against two suppliers of foreign satellite equipment and a group of pub landlords who used imported decoding equipment to show English Premier League games and avoided the commercial premises subscription fees for Sky.
And the mere threat of action is often enough to spur foreign producers to raise prices or curtail sales.
The country's foreign minister, Indulis Berzins, said any action depended on whether Latvia's prosecutor general's office could present relevant evidence.
The demands for action in Libya appear to base foreign policy on CNN, responding to crises which receive the most international media coverage.
Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told reporters that "Syria has been taking some action" to stop the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq.
The grouping needs concrete action toward AFTA, too, to lure back foreign investors which could help kick the recovery into high gear.
Amazingly, (or actually, predictably), neither the Foreign Office nor the British media have taken or called for action to be taken against Russian embassy personnel for abusing British travel documents.
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, whose department will be defending the action in the High Court, was one of the young MPs who expressed his outrage at the eviction when the story came to light in 1975.
The Foreign Office received the rousing support of the British media for its action.
The foreign ministry said it was "legitimate" for China to take action.
The private right to action requires a company to convince a judge that a foreign site is infringing upon its copyright and intellectual property.
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