But Clinton's political rivals have vowed to make the question of foreign campaign contributions a major issue in the president's second term.
With the franchise now better known and a more aggressive foreign marketing campaign, Paramount has higher hopes for its big-budget sequel.
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For most big budget movies nowadays that ratio is reversed and Paramount sought to improve it this go-around with a more costly foreign marketing campaign and more extensive global publicity tour.
These include: the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Libyan sanctions regulations, restrictions on campaign contributions by foreign nationals and passport travel restrictions.
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During the campaign, foreign journalists and international observers were given the widest access for years.
This week there were suddenly reports that while Obama was telling voters he'd get tough on foreign trade, a campaign aide was telling neighboring Canada that Obama didn't mean it.
Sensing a potential diplomatic setback in all the campaign snubs to foreign press, the U.S. State Department has stepped in to help.
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With Libya's youthful population set to double in the next 25 years, job-creation is a driving force behind the campaign to attract foreign capital.
Campaign staffers writing foreign-policy statements for candidates, please take note.
Now when president Obama talked about reversing course in foreign policy during the presidential campaign, I don't think any of us really grasped exactly how far he would take it.
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Romney's three-nation trip to key U.S. allies Great Britain, Israel and Poland has shifted the election campaign spotlight to foreign policy, with particular focus on thorny issues such as the Middle East conflict and Iran.
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Bush's only foray into foreign territory during the presidential campaign was a brief stop at a Mexican border town, where he stood alongside outgoing Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and pledged to broaden trade with Latin America.
So, it turns out, Team Obama suddenly wants the 2012 presidential campaign to be about foreign policy, rather than the economy.
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The former judge complained that because of Mr Berlusconi's near monopoly of the media in Italy only foreign news organisations had reported his campaign.
Conducted outside Russia's borders by commanders with distinctly foreign names, the 1813-14 campaign does not fit with national mythology.
Though Poland was criticised by America for staying out of the air campaign in Libya, its foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, was the first to visit rebel-held Benghazi.
When the Prime Minister or President of France goes to a foreign country where there is a running sales campaign, the Prime Minister will raise the Airbus issue.
Where Mr Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing, Mr McCain has said he wishes foreign policy was the only issue in the campaign.
"As I have seen the home-based players at first hand already, the training camp will enable me assess the foreign-based players who are key to my campaign, " Hey said.
And there will actually be a formal occasion in which foreign policy will be debated as part of the presidential campaign debates.
The good news for Republicans is that Romney sagely chose to ignore the campaign grand strategy of his self-appointed foreign policy brain trust.
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Thus when his appointment of an openly gay spokesman on foreign affairs caused a stir in conservative circles, the campaign quickly fired him.
Brzezinski served as a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign, and his views are not terribly out of place among Obama's senior advisers in the White House.
Obama's campaign has accused Romney of shifting positions on foreign policy matters and mishandling a trip to England, Israel and Poland this summer when he publicly questioned London's preparedness to host the Olympic Games and cited cultural differences as a reason for economic disparities between Israelis and Palestinians.
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With three-dozen other investors, he has formed a group to campaign against what he sees as the gouging of foreign firms.
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Easy foreign travel, communication and technology have all helped the restitution campaign.
Although the White House said Mr Obama's address was not a campaign speech, it follows critical remarks about his foreign policy from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
"Anyone who, for example, belongs to a campaign group which may oppose some aspect of US foreign policy, whether it be the Iraq war or climate change, " he said.
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Holbrooke, a longtime member of the Democratic foreign policy establishment, had urged a stronger Bosnian policy.
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