The rule of law is a fundamental principle in domestic affairs.

Until now, the president has toed a hard line on Iraq, on Lebanon, and in domestic affairs.

To be sure, China claims to be upholding its doctrine of non interference in other countries domestic affairs.

Those votes partly reflected displeasure with domestic policies, and partly disappointment with the way governments conduct European affairs.

Finally, as they maneuver around the shoals of regional and international affairs, the Lebanese must also consider domestic American politics.

At the same time, corporations did not want to be seen as interfering in the domestic affairs of host countries.

Barrot received the transportation portfolio, a minor post far below the type of position competition or domestic affairs that Chirac demanded.

In our domestic affairs, we have managed to reverse a long process of deterioration to achieve macroeconomic stability and political institutionalization.

Compounding this trend, rising powers such as China and India place great value on national sovereignty and non interference in domestic affairs.

China should thus recognize that using its influence would not imply accepting as a matter of principle intervention in other countries domestic affairs.

This impugned America s motives and deprived the US of whatever moral authority the country once had to intervene in other countries domestic affairs.

The Department of Women's Affairs has given the elimination of domestic violence a high priority in its plan of action from 2003 2006.

Under UN administration, legitimate Kosovar institutions for managing domestic affairs have been created. With these institutions in place, Kosovo s people expect greater self government.

Busy with domestic political affairs, they do not hesitate to use Europe as a scapegoat to avoid breaking bad news to their fellow citizens.

Arabs throughout the region, though preoccupied with domestic affairs, are nonetheless pressing a new generation of leaders to support the Palestinian cause more actively.

As in most other countries domestic affairs are considered a private matter and incidents within the family domestic problems including violence are usually not reported and many times not dealt with appropriate seriousness by the concerned authorities, if reported.

This overconfidence in foreign policy, combined with insecurity in domestic affairs, may combine to explain the change in Chinese behavior in the latter part of 2009.

Though China finally pacified the situation by threatening to withdraw investment, doing so meant reneging on the promise not to meddle in other countries domestic affairs.

Prevented from criticizing the country s leaders and reporting fully and objectively on domestic affairs, China s media often finds it expedient to turn its critical gaze outwards.

China s leaders fear that if they begin to pronounce on the domestic record of other nations, much less join in sanctions or United Nations peacekeeping missions, they will help establish a precedent that would allow others to intrude on domestic Chinese affairs.

In the government's response to this report it was stated that the Ministry of Social Affairs is now the focal point for the treatment of domestic violence, and its director general heads an inter ministerial Committee coordinating the treatment of domestic violence.

With Muslims becoming a bigger factor in Russian domestic politics in the decades ahead, it may be wise for Russia to take an interest in Middle East affairs.

At the same time, national governments could minimize the political and transition costs of adopting a common language whichever is chosen by using their own languages for domestic affairs.

Stresses the necessity to protect Iraq, its stability and the unity of its people, by refraining from interfering in its domestic affairs, from whatever source or in whatever form.

Indeed, by shooting down a Turkish warplane that wandered into Syrian airspace, Assad s regime intended to deliver a clear message to the international community Stay out of Syria s domestic affairs.

The likely winner in the June 26 run off election, Juan Manuel Santos, will pursue most of outgoing president Alvaro Uribe s domestic policies, but might change course slightly in foreign affairs.

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Any change of regime in Burma will not be the result of international intervention, but of political negotiations between the junta and its domestic opponents. China should thus recognize that using its influence would not imply accepting as a matter of principle intervention in other countries domestic affairs.

It is hard for Americans, whose world series are essentially domestic affairs, to understand the emotions engendered in European citizens when their nations compete for the European soccer championship every four years.

We have maintained on several occasions in our region and elsewhere that the principle of non intervention in the domestic affairs of States must be associated with the idea of non indifference .

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This overconfidence in foreign policy, combined with insecurity in domestic affairs, may combine to explain the change in Chinese behavior in the latter part of 2009. If so, China is making a serious miscalculation.

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Going further, the managing director of one newspaper claims that delaying political and constitutional reform as if it were a grant to citizens rather than their right would invite outside intervention in Egypt s domestic affairs.

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According to Jonathan Mirsky, a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs, China's isolation from most of the rest of the world, along with the Korean War, had accelerated Mao's attacks on his perceived domestic enemies.

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