Sentences with phrase «aid of foreign»

The application is for a freezing injunction over assets located outside England and Wales, partly in aid of domestic proceedings (partnership dissolution proceedings) and partly in aid of foreign proceedings (proceedings in Jersey re claims for 50 % interest in shareholdings).

Julian acted for a BVI international company in a judicial review and constitutional rights challenge to conduct by the BVI Financial Service Commission in aid of a foreign regulator, including the obtaining of orders for disclosure and cross-examination against the Commission.

James was leading counsel for the defendant in its successful application to discharge a US$ 100 million Worldwide Freezing Order granted in aid of foreign proceedings.

He has acted in significant recent cases concerning the limits of the jurisdiction, including acting for the successful parties in Yukos Capital v Rosneft [2010] EWHC 784 (Comm)(ambit of the Chabra jurisdiction), Linsen International v Humpuss Sea Transport [2011] 2 Lloyd's Rep 663 and [2011] EWCA Civ 1042 (limits of the territorial jurisdiction to grant freezing orders against non-resident non-parties) and Cruz City 1 Mauritius Holdings v Unitech Limited [2014] 2 CLC 784 (power of court to grant freezing orders against non-parties in aid of arbitral proceedings), as well as Yukos CIS v Wincanton in the BVI Commercial Court and Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (availability of freezing orders in aid of foreign litigation in the absence of an equivalent of s. 25 of the CJJA).

The Hong Kong courts can issue interim orders in aid of foreign (including the PRC) seated arbitrations, which can be useful in preserving assets...

Notable examples include Implants International v Stratec Medical [1999] 2 All ER (Comm) 933), concerning jurisdiction, and Mercedes Benz v Leiduck [1996] AC 284, concerning the Court's power to grant interim relief in aid of foreign proceedings.

However, it was s 25, which ETI claimed assisted them because it enables injunctions to be granted in aid of foreign proceedings, which generated the most significant argument.

He blatantly rigged his own re-election with the aid of foreign cash.

Not exact matches

President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

The purported aim of the reviews includes preventing tech firms from aiding foreign government spying or otherwise exploiting people's information.

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

Citgo, which operates the Corpus Christi Refinery with a capacity to process 157,000 barrels a day, will provide the aid to affected families through local mayors and allot a percentage of gasoline revenue to the construction of homes and shelters in and around Houston, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on state television.

David Miliband, the CEO of International Rescue Committee, explains why it is a bad idea for US to cut foreign aid.

Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.

After the key capture of eastern Aleppo in late 2016, Assad and his allies have taken back one area after another from rebels who face Russian air power and lack sufficient aid from foreign states that back them only half - heartedly.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

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The National Post obtains an audit of Canadian foreign aid in Afghanistan that does not entirely flatter this country's efforts.

Canada's foreign aid could be more effective, were strategies in place that addressed the problem of weak host - country governance, which currently renders aid inefficient or even counter -...

Canada's foreign aid could be more effective, were strategies in place that addressed the problem of weak host - country governance, which currently renders aid inefficient or even counter-productive,...

This is precisely why the proposal to align Canada's aid with its foreign policy and commercial interests in an amalgamated department is of great concern.

«This decision is made since the conditions of both countries have changed and based on the fact that aid needs in Texas have fortunately decreased,» the foreign service statement noted.

On Sunday evening, the Dallas Morning News reported, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray also spoke to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and verbally reiterated the country's offer of aid.

A number of papers seize on the remarks of the former Minister for International Development, Grant Shapps, that Britain's spending on foreign aid is «out of control».

The silver lining to this credit creation was that Japanese exporters were aided as the conversion of yen into foreign currencies drove down the exchange rate.

Large scale utilization of bioplastics (plastic made from renewable resources like biomass) would significantly decrease US foreign fossil fuel consumption, aiding in the goal of fossil fuel independence and possibly lead to a reduction in US military presence worldwide.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

Like America, France is aiding its own auto producers, not transplants, and has created a sovereign wealth fund to keep «national champions» out of foreign ownership.

As Common Cause explains in its DOJ complaint, U.S. nationals running Cambridge Analytica and its political committee clients may have aided and abetted foreign nationals in violating U.S. laws, and may be liable for conspiracy or attempted conspiracy to violate U.S. laws — all of which are crimes under U.S. law.

But almost every other foreign policy responsibility, McDougall shows, lies in a no - man's - land between the various branches of government: No mention is made of a power to recognize or de-recognize foreign regimes, terminate treaties as opposed to make them, make peace as opposed to war, declare neutrality in the wars of others, annex or cede territory, bestow or deny foreign aid, impose sanctions, regulate immigration and the status of aliens...

Taxpayers as a whole began paying (through aid) for access to foreign markets, from which captains of finance and industry drew disproportionate benefits.

The British government diverted 1.85 million pounds ($ 3 million) of foreign aid money to help pay for the state visit of Pope Benedict XVI last year, lawmakers charged Thursday.

In a joint statement, the Foreign and Interior Ministers said: «We are providing aid to displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic State and who have sought refuge in Kurdistan.

Critical of the approach the U2 rocker took to developmental aid, I argued: Regardless of whether foreign aid caused, and continues to cause, these....

«The USA is the largest foreign source of relief aid to Haiti from the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Acknowledging this, however, would call into question the revelation vouchsafed to another of the new environmentalism's ideological allies, the population - control movement: namely, that people are a pollutant» a pernicious idea, born of the earlier progressivist eugenics movement and brought to a popular boil in the Sixties by evidence - light propagandists like Paul Ehrlich, that continues to affect U.S. foreign - aid policy to this day.

Often aid was channeled by the donor into the infrastructure for foreign investment and conditioned on the purchase of goods produced by the metropolis so that a rational development policy based on local needs became impossible.»

Sudan, for example, where a Christian woman was sentenced to death this week for leaving Islam, is ineligible for some types of foreign aid.

Obama went on to frame decisions as disparate as ending tax breaks for the wealthy and defending foreign aid as examples of biblical principles in action, quoting Jesus» teaching that «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and invoking the «biblical call to care for the least of these.»

Demands include reduction of trade barriers, more stable commodity prices for raw materials, easier access to foreign technologies, better terms of aid and rapid expansion of industrialization.

A most particular threat to the human rights project is the coercive use of foreign aid and other international programs in order to advance alleged rights related to procreation, population control, and the independence of children from their parents (in the name of «children's rights»).

Articles and teaching sessions are devoted to social scandals like the increase in hunger, poverty, homelessness and illiteracy in the U.S. Likewise, issues surrounding U.S. foreign policy, aid and grotesque military appropriations are frequently critiqued on behalf of a foreseen new social order that will be founded on liberationist principles.

«One common complaint about foreign aid is that some of it gets wasted on corruption — and of course, some of it does.

And they would not need our foreign aid if they were not living in a state of war since their day of independence in 1948.

Weaver and others add to this by proposing that the U.S. end sanctions on Iraq, pull its troops out of Saudi Arabia, and move toward a more equitable distribution of foreign aid in the Middle East (in particular, less to Israel and more to the Palestinians).

The Trump administration recently announced a plan to induce «deep cuts to foreign aid» adding, «it is time to prioritize the security and well - being of Americans, and to ask the rest of the world to step up and pay its fair share.»

Although undoubtedly motivated by deep Christian commitment, Nyerere's form of «African socialism,» called Ujamaa, ruthlessly uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and, despite massive foreign aid, drove Tanzania into a beggary from which it has never recovered.

Other key policies in the Ukip manifesto include an extra # 11 billion a year for the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, funded by cuts in foreign aid.