Sentences with phrase «about foreign countries»

Staff members can suggest suitable hotels and eateries or supply information about foreign countries.

Isn't that exciting to date and learn something about foreign countries?

They travel the world in their spaceship along with Ubercorn the singing unicorn, taking part in missions and learning about foreign countries and environments en route.

Besides, if we're going to write about a foreign country, I personally think we have an obligation to seek out and include local perspectives in our writing.

Reading the group's press releases it does seem that they even had a hand in getting the president of the United States to sic a taxpayer - funded agency on a foreign academic study about a foreign country's experience with its own policies, because said academic team and its writings threaten the welfare if the word gets out.

Not exact matches

«Comparing Canada with other G7 countries raises more questions about the massive expansion of our temporary foreign worker program.»

So while the debate rages about whether Canada should be welcoming foreign ownership of companies or fearing and rejecting it on the grounds that it will «hollow out» the country, the video game industry has cast a giant «who cares?»

Worries about foreign influence also pushed down support for economic engagement with Asian countries, particularly for emerging economies.

The temporary foreign worker program has ballooned under the Conservatives from about 100,000 people in 2002 to as many as 338,000 now working across the country.

As the firestorm over Trump's comment began late last week, the White House and Trump's National Security Council provided no guidance to the State Department about what to say to foreign countries who were incensed, said a U.S. official familiar with the conversations between the White House and other federal agencies.

It contributes up to # 150 million a year in revenues to the BBC, mostly from foreign countries where viewers don't get to hear about his off - screen antics.

The best hedge against inflation is the US stock market since about 60 % of revenues of the S&P 500 comes from foreign countries.

Turkey's foreign minister and the son - in - law of Erdoğan, the country's energy minister, were Flynn's interlocutors that day about putting Gülen «out of action.»

China holds about 20 percent of U.S. debt held by foreign countries, which is a lot, but it only accounts for about 5 percent of outstanding debt overall.

If people at local companies went about their own city like expats in foreign countries, how many more friends could they have?

You don't need mythical importer - exporter Art Vandelay to tell you things are about to get complicated for businesses that trade with foreign countries.

After the travel ban was announced in January, Breslin says, TriNet fielded many calls from clients concerned, for example, about the fates of foreign - born employees temporarily outside the country.

Canada is the United States» largest foreign provider of steel and aluminum, with about 85 per cent of Canadian exports being directed to that country.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

«Foreign workers applying to jobs are much more nervous about the process, and even our existing H - 1B workers are worried that they will be kicked out of the country,» she adds, noting that one employee is considering working from Europe as opposed to the U.S. — a move Phone2Action would support.

Get Specific About Foreign Subsidies: Though government activism isn't widely seen as effective in Republican circles, there's plenty of evidence that trade policy has at the very least boosted employment in countries like China and Korea.

Nor did I like lying awake in strange hotel beds in foreign countries waiting for the sun to come up because I was nervous about an important meeting or suffering from jetlag.

This country may be deeply divided over what to do about immigration in general, but when it comes to a Startup Visa for promising foreign founders of fast - growing businesses, it's hard to imagine a case for keeping these job - creating achievers out.

Asked about Trump «s quips, White House spokesman Raj Shah said: «Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people.»

Instead of only thinking about how your own country's customers might receive your new ideas, you'll need to think about how foreign customers will receive your ideas.

Tillerson's experience in diplomacy stems from making deals with foreign countries for Exxon, although questions have been raised about his relations with Russia.

The authorities have also been increasingly nervous about the flow of money out of the country, which contributed to a sharp fall in the country's foreign exchange reserves in recent years, before steadying in recent months.

In July of 2015, Koch drove home the point in his testimony before a Senate committee about how the country's high corporate tax rate is driving U.S. businesses into the arms of foreign buyers, adding that he'll probably be the last American owner of Boston Beer.

In early 1968, the financially strapped administration became so alarmed about the country's trade imbalance that Mr. Fowler proposed a detailed plan to Congress to curb foreign travel by imposing a tax on spending outside the Western Hemisphere at rates of 15 or 30 percent, exempting only the first $ 7 a day.

This is what I wrote about in the Financial Times yesterday: the U.S. refusal to cooperate with other countries, above all its double standard insisting that other countries must turn their foreign - exchange surpluses over to the U.S. Treasury to promote U.S. financial markets at their expense — and the demand that any country running a trade surplus with America spend the money on U.S. arms — is so abhorrent that other countries are proceeding to create an alternative global financial system of settling trade and balance - of - payments transactions without the United States.

As in most countries, the foreign exchange market in Australia is the largest market sector, with turnover of about $ 76 billion a day, a little over half of which involves the Australian dollar.

Wealthy Chinese people are getting worried and are transferring a lot of money to foreign countries, while foreign investors are increasingly skeptical about China.

A number of countries have been affected by the demand side of China's expansion, not least Australia, where we now see China accounting for about 10 per cent of our foreign trade, up from 5 per cent as recently as 1998.

Exchange Ban Has «Capital Outflow» Risks Speaking to mainstream western media about the current turbulent regulatory climate in the country, one holder said opening an account on a foreign exchange or using connections abroad as proxies were both feasible options should the government enact a ban.

By 2020, half of China's digital shoppers — or more than a quarter of the country's population of about 1.4 billion — will be buying foreign products online, eMarketer estimates, with total sales of $ 157.7 billion.

Even though there are concerns about China's financial markets, the country is a net saver, which limits direct exposure for foreign investors, argues Neumann.

Asked about the report by the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Ministry spokewoman Hua Chuying said China opposes countries imposing unilateral sanctions and urged the U.S. to avoid taking actions that could harm «normal, open, transparent and win - win international trade.»

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro slumped to a four - month low in the aftermath of the bailout of Cyprus, as market participants worried about the implications for other countries on the periphery of the eurozone.

The funny thing about people saying their faith isn't shaken is that these are the same people who will often look at other natural disasters in foreign countries and say God is punishing these people, or that something bad happened because of some aspect of the culture that God disapproves of.

American Jesus, or the temple in Jesus» time, Christianity in the times of the Roman Empire post the conversion of Constantine, the Crusades in the middle ages, the British Empire oh and any presidential candidate claiming they are a Christian and being vociferous about bombing foreign countries that don't comply with American hegemony perhaps.

Last week, representatives from Compassion International went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and talked to them about their obstacles with serving children in India, mainly that the Indian government's regulations would result in the organization being driven out of the country because of a lack of access to funds.

As author Penny Lernoux has noted: «When the Alliance for Progress was finally buried at the end of the 1960s, about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).

Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone Man, all cattle, large and small All that are upon the earth That go about on their feet (All) That are on high That fly with their wings The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities Everyone has his possessions And his days are reckoned The tongues are divers in speech Their forms likewise and their skins are distinguished (For) thou makest different the strangers.»

We often complain about the craziness of the our political process, but we forget that in this country, we enjoy freedoms that are foreign to most of the rest of the world.

There are no easy explanations as to why relatively well - educated people, living in a country with a «free press,» are basically ignorant of or misinformed about the consequences of U.S. foreign policy.

A third story I read was about a lonely man from a foreign country who walked by and heard someone pray in his language, obviously praying in tongues.

Foreign preachers were allowed into the country, and there were articles about religious freedom in official Chinese media, the State Department said.

In my case, I've had tons of things that have happened to me and He has always been there to help me, but one time I was going through a problem, a big one, and no one knew about it, I don't like to talk about really personal things, but this girl whom I had just met once told me that God told her something and it was related to my problem, I knew for sure no one knew about it, I was in a foreign country alone with my husband, so I knew that it was Him talking to me through her.

As to crimes against foreign countries, who, exactly, are you talking about?

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.