11.   In fact, disputes between human-rights hard-liners like her and those who emphasize economic engagement do much to keep attention focused on China.

12.   In the case of China, for example, the administration has argued that economic engagement will lead to greater political freedom.

13.   Presumably economic engagement with North Korea, however limited, frees resources for that insular country to develop its missile arsenal, one of its biggest exports.

14.   Rubin called on his audience to help sell the American people on the need for U.S. economic engagement overseas.

15.   That experience taught George W. Bush to tread lightly on economic engagement with China.

16.   The American public, hoping for better jobs and wages, was very much in favor of economic engagement with the world.

17.   The Taiwan government has also called for a more cautious economic engagement with the mainland.

18.   Then, too, only economic engagement will transform the environment in which terrorists thrive, analysts say.

19.   This is the process under which austere Communist regimes are undermined by economic engagement with the outside world.

20.   This week, Washington has pressed its interests in economic engagement with Turkmenistan to new heights.