"They are on the threshold of historic internal decisions, and I don't think they want to create any controversial foreign commitments."

"Our foreign commitments-" Ten minutes later the telephone interrupted the discourse.

A president should be prudent about foreign commitments.

Mr. Buchanan's view of the world and traditional American foreign commitments is overwhelmingly negative.

Excessive domestic consumption and foreign commitments exacerbated the deep-rooted structural problems in the British economy.

Is President Clinton, so eager to begin domestic innovation, ready to begin preparing the ground for such a foreign commitment?

The Soviet draft agreement is the largest foreign commitment to the supercollider so far, the university said.

We Americans don't need or want more long-term foreign commitments.

The cloth for the coat of America's foreign commitments is still adequate.

The willingness of electorates to sustain foreign commitments is contracting, not expanding.