Example collocations logo

External in sentence

2292 examples of External in a sentence

That is why their leaders remain committed to preserving open internal borders, while maintaining a stronger external border – even if that means, as has been made clear to Greece, revoking the Schengen membership of a country deemed incapable of doing its part.
It is necessary because persistently weak global growth is unlikely to provide the solid external demand for Chinese exports that it once did.
But doing so will require overcoming three related obstacles: Iraqi leaders’ military inexperience; corruption and cronyism; and ambiguity regarding the extent of external support.
But states often collapse as an unintended consequence of the presence of a supporting external force.
But al-Maliki seems to have assumed that external forces would simply come to his aid should he run into trouble.
With his lack of a military background, he seems not to have understood that external forces need to work closely with the local army, and that a sophisticated support network must be in place to avoid logistical disruptions resulting from enemy action or corruption.
And, in keeping with past experience, weak sentiment has reduced capital flows to emerging-market economies in general, especially those like Turkey, Indonesia, and Brazil that have large external financing needs or face upcoming elections with uncertain outcomes.
Their real exchange rates also appreciated, eroding external competitiveness.
Mexico, with its popular and reform-minded government, strong growth, and a current-account deficit below 2% of GDP, has gained favor with investors, who have turned away from Brazil, with its political risk, faltering growth, and yawning external deficit.
Diplomats and politicians treat talk, decisions, and actions independently, in order to satisfy the demands of a diverse set of stakeholders and to maximize external support for their organizations.
Indeed, it is what has rendered Europe incapable of absorbing external shocks – like last summer’s refugee influx.
Lady Ashton should be able to tie together the political and resource arms of Europe’s external policies.
But it is not yet clear, whatever the Lisbon Treaty says, that Ashton has full control of either the EU external budget or of appointments to the new diplomatic service.
Third, where Europe has a serious internal policy, it is easier to establish a more serious external policy.
Fourth, European external policy is most effective the nearer it is to home.
The greatest success of Europe’s external policy has been EU enlargement.
They have also paid back a significant share of external debt and converted much of what remains into more manageable local-currency liabilities.
The banking sector’s total external debt is $214 billion, of which $107 billion is due within a year (and $129 billion within two years).
Non-financial firms’ external debt totals $432 billion, with $128 billion due within a year (and $175 billion within two years).
The build-up of official reserves in East Asia and other developing countries will provide them with extra means to deal with possible external shocks.
This would require, for instance, stimulating growth in Europe, Asia, and the major oil exporters in order to offset the contractionary effect on the world economy of adjustment in the US, which should include more restrictive fiscal policies, less private consumption, and higher domestic savings to reduce its external deficit.
For the first time in history, terrorism gives insurgents the ability to strike directly at their enemies’ external allies.
This has produced – albeit with a certain amount of external pressure notably on behalf of the Sunnis – a document that may provide the basis for the rule of law.
Nevertheless, the US will remain the most influential external actor in the Middle East, for its failure is one of leadership, not of actual power.
Often certain actual external sounds, such as fans or running water, become transformed into perceived speech.
The PBC knows that rapid deterioration in America’s fiscal position and continual worsening in its external balance may create an irresistible temptation for the US to inflate away its debt burden.
In the run-up to the financial crisis, the US external deficit was soaking up almost 70% of the excess funds saved by China, Japan, Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and all the countries with current-account surpluses combined.
So far, China has looked to external markets so that exporters can achieve the economies of scale needed to improve quality and move up the value chain.
Although countries have not descended fully into protectionism since the global financial crisis began, difficult economic and labor-market conditions in key countries may force politicians to protect domestic markets while trying to gain external competitiveness.
Instead of developing a strategy for Russia’s long-term recovery, Putin has adopted a reactive and opportunistic approach – one that can sometimes succeed, but only in the short term – to cope with domestic insecurity, perceived external threats, and the weakness of neighbors.
BackNext