As if to underline the divisions among foreign powers over the Syrian conflict, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, strongly criticised the draft resolution.
If the liberal foreign powers have their way, he will undoubtedly be one of the showpieces of an international tribunal.
India continues to insist that it will confine its counter-attack to its side of the line of control for fear of provoking a wider war and destroying the goodwill of foreign powers, such as the United States and even China, traditionally an ally of Pakistan's.
"The Pakistani army should come down hard on anyone who is playing in the hands of foreign powers, including Baitullah Mehsud, " the nominal leader of the Pakistan Taliban.
"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.
This week the political parties, the election commission and foreign powers stepped up the pressure on the generals to leave politics.
China has declared a national defense remembrance day "to keep fresh the memory of national humiliation it suffered at the hands of foreign powers, " according to a December dispatch from the official Xinhua news agency.
As the public record shows, foreign powers, including the IMF, presented Suharto with a Hobson's choice, ultimately resulting in his removal from power.
He is certainly correct about the support of foreign powers, at least as far as America is concerned.
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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And nasty comments from Secretary Rice and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, dominated the meeting of the foreign ministers of the G8 industrial powers this past week in Potsdam, Germany.
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 fact, the three most closely involved foreign powers India, America and Britain were furious with the king for ignoring their advice and misleading them about his intentions.
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.
Hard-liners have accused the pollsters of fabricating the results, and also of selling secrets to foreign powers by conducting a poll commissioned by the Japanese embassy on Iranian public perceptions of Japan.
The International Crisis Group has released a report calling for the United States and other foreign powers to intercede.
With both sides tarring their opponents as traitors and agents of foreign powers, the semblance of unity in Mr Siniora's government unravelled.
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.
These include anger over a deteriorating economy, worry at signs that the president's men have been extensively rearming and suspicions that foreign powers, including Saudi Arabia and the United States, still back Mr Saleh because of his declared opposition to jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda, which remains active in parts of southern Yemen.
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.
Also on the committee agenda are measures barring local police from aiding the U.S. military in detaining Oklahoma citizens under the federal War Powers Resolution, prohibiting judges from considering foreign law, and amending the constitution to limit the Legislature's ability to regulate firearms.
The importance of this is further increased considering that many Muslim lands have been occupied by foreign powers, and have had foreign judicial systems imposed on them which are secular and which disallow the Shari'a from being used in court, or only allow it to be used for personal and family issues.
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.
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