Sentences with phrase «against foreign countries»

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

The 1974 law Trump is invoking to impose the tariffs, known as Section 301, authorizes the US president retaliate against a foreign country's «unfair trade practices» (pdf, p. 64).

This amendment demands that economic sanctions be imposed against any foreign country that conducts fishing operations in such a manner as to «diminish the effectiveness» of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW).

«A citizen of Maine filing a suit in state court against a foreign country for an incident that happened over 25 years ago.»

Not exact matches

Hungary was one of the first European countries to turn against foreign ownership of utilities back in 2013 but there are growing signs that borders are springing up again in an industry that has struggled to make international deals pay off.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

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

Because of globalization, if components of a large, manufactured product are produced in a foreign country, the cost is simply a component cost, and the labor required to produce it is not counted against our manufacturing productivity.

It allows the US government to investigate and then take unilateral action against a country it accuses of using unfair market practices, such as the use of onerous regulations to discriminate against foreign start - ups.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking with world leaders including UN Secretary General Ban - ki Moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs John Kerry and asserting Israel's right to defend itself against incessant rocket attacks and terrorist infiltrations which no country can be expected to suffer without responding.

Foreign countries can prevent their currencies from rising against the dollar (which prices their labor and exports out of foreign markets) only by (1) recycling dollar inflows into U.S. Treasury securities, (2) by imposing capital controls, or (3) by avoiding use of the dollar or other currencies used by financial speculators in economies promoting «quantitative easing.Foreign countries can prevent their currencies from rising against the dollar (which prices their labor and exports out of foreign markets) only by (1) recycling dollar inflows into U.S. Treasury securities, (2) by imposing capital controls, or (3) by avoiding use of the dollar or other currencies used by financial speculators in economies promoting «quantitative easing.foreign markets) only by (1) recycling dollar inflows into U.S. Treasury securities, (2) by imposing capital controls, or (3) by avoiding use of the dollar or other currencies used by financial speculators in economies promoting «quantitative easing.»

Bitcoin's surge in price at the beginning of 2017 caught the attention of the Chinese government, which has been fighting tooth and nails against capital flight in the country, restricting foreign investments and gold importations.

Lower consumer spending means less sales by U.S. and foreign manufacturers — especially those in countries whose currency is rising against the dollar (e.g., Japan).

In addition, lower real wages and declining labor costs are making the country more attractive for foreign business when measured against regional Latin American peers.

The country's healthy trade surpluses and the Plaza Accord in 1985, which sought to weaken the U.S. dollar against the Yen and German Deutsche Mark, caused the Yen currency to appreciate against other currencies, which in turn made foreign capital investments relatively inexpensive for Japanese companies.

Accelerated outflows might force China's central bank to push the yuan to appreciate more strongly against foreign currencies, to encourage Chinese investors to keep their money in the country.

That lack of confidence could cause harm not just to foreign investors, but also to countries who fight against ISDS pacts.

The ISDS chapter in a trade agreement of a country where you are considering doing business or investing could act as a shield against any arbitrary foreign government measures that would negatively impact your business.

WASHINGTON — Unswayed by Republican warnings of a trade war, President Donald Trump ordered steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to fight back against an «assault on our country» by foreign competitors.

However, particular countries may intentionally discriminate against foreign suppliers of cultural goods (such as films, television programmes, or advertising) that can be seen as eroding their cultural identity.

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.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

O'Reilly jumped right in, immediately asking questions about Trump's foreign policy, including the travel ban issued against residents of seven Middle East countries.

What will do so is if he sells BRITSH STATE SECRETS to a foreign power and tries to turn against his own country.

Ned Stark — declared a traitor and decapitated Catelyn Stark — throat slit at her brother's wedding Robb Stark — murdered after watching his pregnant wife get murdered Jon Snow — stabbed to death by his subordinates Sansa Stark — twice married against her choice; raped in front of childhood friend Brandon Stark — pushed out of a tower window and paralyzed Arya Stark — blind and at the mercy of assassins in a foreign country Rickon Stark — ¯ \ (ツ) / ¯

Former President Jerry John Rawlings, has somewhat kicked against the government's decision to host foreign troops from the United States of America in the country, as part of a US - Ghana defence cooperation arrangement.

«We don't know what we'll find but if Russia or any other foreign country is meddling in our elections, we would have to take very severe sanctions against them,» Schumer said.

The State Department issued new guidelines last night to American embassies and consulates on applying a limited travel ban against foreign visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries.

«We weren't competing against any other state, we were competing against two foreign countries,» Pataki said.

Russia's deputy foreign minister said his country was poised to retaliate aggressively against any new U.S. sanctions on Moscow, adding: «I think retaliation is long, long overdue.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatia.

At independence, we created a military service — Army, Navy Air force - and the police which was already there and issued weapons to these armed forces to defend and protect the country against foreign aggression or any serious internal struggle.

3 - Sunni counterpart of Hezbollah is not Taliban or ISIS; it's Hamas (both fight inside of their countries for their countries against foreign military troops.

Britain is calling on European foreign ministers to intensify economic sanctions against Iran, one day after expelling the country's diplomats from the UK.

Many foreign countries in the developed world, instead tax corporate profits at a higher rate, resulting in higher corporate taxes collected, but credit corporate taxes paid against the tax due on dividends distributed, eliminating double taxation.

Addressing the nation on Friday, Maduro declared a «constitutional state of emergency... to tend to our country and more importantly to prepare to denounce, neutralize and overcome the external and foreign aggressions against our country.»

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is continuing to advise against all non-essential travel to the country due to the threat of terror.

Analyzing China, for example, the report balances that country's centralized planning and financial strength against countervailing factors such as its «endemic» corruption, repressive political structure, opaque legal system, and insistence that, in return for access to its vast market, foreign companies surrender proprietary intellectual property.

When I get to a foreign country, I never know what I am going to run up against.

Elizabeth Sloane, (Jessica Chastain, The Martian, 2015), the eponymous «hero» in Miss Sloane as the star lobbyist at one the most powerful firms in D.C. Elizabeth will seemingly use anything at her disposal to fight against regulation or taxation that threaten her clients, whether they be Fortune 500 companies or foreign countries.

American Made Movie has a lot of these types of authentic, sympathetic voices — hardworking folks who, as someone notes, can compete against anyone in the world, but not foreign governments, which have enormously subsidized and underwritten the catch - up in manufacturing in many countries.

Some American critics took issue with Arnold's ugly - beautiful portrait as a kind of inauthentic burlesque of their country, skewed by foreign preconceptions and blind spots — though not as many as those who took against Martin McDonagh's Oscar - winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which weathered a firestorm of political and moral debate, backlashes and counter-backlashes, between its rapturous first reception in Venice and the Academy Awards.

Armenia hosts one of Russia's biggest foreign military bases, offsetting a longstanding OSCE arms embargo against it, yet during President Sargsyan's first term he also strengthened his country's ties with NATO and for the most part upheld international sanctions against neighboring Iran, despite the extensive opportunity costs to the Armenian economy.

The foreign - language press supported America's role in World War II, even if the countries we fought against were the homelands of many immigrants; it steadily educated immigrant readers in American history, and through the parents also tried to educate the children.

Even though United Nations (UN) independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina had warned that the introduction of a second austerity package could constitute a serious violation against the Greeks» human rights, this did not stop the government from going forward (OHCHR, 2011) A massive wave of protests and riots full of anger and desperation erupted within the country condemning Papandreou's policies and the austerity measures.

Under a decisions that was nearly five years in the making and which overturned a Second Circuit court decision against Kirtsaeng, the Supreme Court handed down a 6 - 3 ruling in favor of a foreign student attending school in the US who was buying less - expensive textbooks through his family in his native country and selling them at a slight markup to US students.

Political Risk coverage protects you against loss in value of your foreign investments or assets resulting from specified political events during the policy period in the country where the investments or assets are held.

The question is whether foreign countries bite the bullet and allow their currencies to rise against the dollar or not.

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