As if to underline the divisions among foreign powers over the Syrian conflict, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, strongly criticised the draft resolution.
"We fear that any such decision on the part of foreign powers to give assistance to one side or the other in Afghanistan is a recipe for great suffering for the people of Afghanistan, " he said.
As the public record shows, foreign powers, including the IMF, presented Suharto with a Hobson's choice, ultimately resulting in his removal from power.
Throughout its 200-year history, the role of foreign powers has generated red-hot passion.
The US has also denied that it shot down the satellite to prevent parts of it from falling into the hands of foreign powers.
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Yet, to my knowledge, today we have no similar safeguards in place to what the DOD had during the Cold War years to check on the influence of foreign powers on American institutions.
In order to close this loophole, the Lautenberg amendment would apply the same restrictions imposed on U.S. companies' dealings with a foreign country or persons dealing with that country pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to foreign-incorporated subsidiaries of such companies, where the U.S. parent owns at least a 50% share of the subsidiary.
The International Crisis Group has released a report calling for the United States and other foreign powers to intercede.
This lack of internal agreement or identity, coupled with an awareness that the unity of the country was assured by foreign powers, had dire consequences, Graziano says.
NWFP's assembly and a member of the Awami National Party, would leave only four powers with the federal government: foreign affairs, defence, international communications and the currency.
Ahead of Mr Cameron's speech, a group of Conservative backbench MPs has published a report, welcomed by the foreign secretary, calling for a substantial return of powers to the UK from the European Union.
One partial exception was foreign policy, where the inherent powers of the commander-in-chief give the president somewhat more constitutional leeway than in domestic policy.
He accused foreign powers of pushing the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to rebuke Iran for covering up another uranium enrichment plant near the town of Qom.
There was also swift agreement on a Swedish-drafted plan to limit the president's powers, more or less excluding any foreign-policy role for the new chief.
Together they are responsible for constructing the country's regional and foreign policies, including the nuclear portfolio and relations with Western powers.
She also said the police's stop-and-search powers would be curbed and the effort to deport foreign nationals involved in terrorist activity would be increased.
The Home Office was disappointed that the court had found these powers discriminated against foreign nationals but UK law had always distinguished between UK citizens and foreign nationals.
The Quadripartite Committee - comprising members of the defence, foreign affairs, international development and trade and industry select committees - is demanding the same powers of prior scrutiny afforded to their counterparts in the US and Sweden.
Mr Putin has accused the NGOs of meddling in politics on behalf of foreign powers.
Questions about the appropriate role of America in the world and how it conducts its relationships with foreign powers are, of course, essential topics in any presidential campaign.
Alongside the unnecessary and intrusive charter of fundamental rights and the mad idea of giving the undeserving European Parliament more powers, Lisbon improves the EU's voting system, partly sorts out a muddled foreign-policy structure and creates a permanent presidency of the European Council in place of the present six-month, rotating one.
His parting words as president were for the U.S. to avoid permanent alliances with foreign powers.
If the CFTC has extraterritorial powers on retail forex, then foreign-based brokers will probably not do business with non-qualified American participants.
Home Secretary Theresa May used newly-introduced powers which allow foreign prisoners who have served the minimum part of their sentence to be deported if they have no right to remain in the country.
The core Western powers have never seen eye to eye with Russia on foreign policy.
But even as Russia appeared to agree that a key step in the peace process would be the establishment of a transitional government, the country's foreign minister said it should not be viewed as outside powers imposing a transitional government on Syrians.
This new agreement does not extend to documents covered exclusively by EU foreign and security policy, an area in which the European Parliament has limited powers.
"Clearly this force is not yet organized enough, or have any identifiable leadership that can easily be accessed by foreign powers, " said Ayham Kamel, a Syria analyst at the Eurasia Group, a New York-based political risk consultancy.
New powers should allow the mayor of London to restrict second homes being purchased by foreign investors, former mayoral candidate Simon Hughes said.
So far, outside powers have not become deeply involved, though many foreign leaders have visited Israel and the Palestinian territories to test the water and urge negotiation.
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