Yesterday, the commander of the growing NATO forces in Afghanistan addressed the foreign soldiers' image problem.
Four months after a presidential election, reports from Honduras suggest the Obama administration remains obsessed with repairing its foreign-policy image by regaining the upper hand.
Under President Putin, Russia acted as though an improving military and active foreign policies conveyed the image of an active global power capable of asserting it national interests if need be.
With Poland's image among foreign investors at a low ebb following a series of stalled or cancelled sales, social packages mercifully rare elsewhere in Central Europe are a burden the country can ill afford.
With an election of his own due in November, George Bush needs to show America's voters a cheerier image of his foreign policy than is available in Iraq.
"Koizumi, who relies strongly on high public approval because of weak support within his political party, feared the foreign ministry squabbles could hurt his public image, " it said, adding that the prime minister consulted with senior party members before making the move.
Like Nixon in 1952, Agnew served as the attack dog and allowed Nixon, who had remade himself from an avid Cold Warrior into a foreign policy expert, to maintain his new image.
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group acquisition of Volvo is an early step in building the image of Chinese automobiles and marketing to foreign buyers.
Although there are no special residency requirements or specific limitations for foreign buyers, many discover that the fairy-tale image is different from the reality.
This sentiment is largely the result of Kremlin propaganda, which over the past decade has cultivated the image of Russia as a fortress besieged by foreign enemies, and installed a cynical view that everybody is motivated by greed.
The foreign-ministry document talks of the need to project the image of Russia as a democratic state with a socially oriented market economy but says nothing about the need actually to become one.
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The EGAT deal was also one being marketed to foreign investors, so it was another body blow to Thailand's shaky image.
On Thursday, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told reporters that the case is hurting the image of Spain.
His image as a right-wing chauvinist has only grown with his denials that foreign, notably South Korean, women were coerced into military prostitution during the second world war.
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Given the significance of the case and the influence it could have on shaping Malaysia's image abroad, it is perhaps odd that the court started the trial by offending the foreign observers whose goodwill could boost its standing.
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara was skeptical, saying that it was possible Israel was only seeking to improve its image by holding the Hebron talks.
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