Sentences with phrase «arms contracts as»

As Aliyev benefits politically from his relationship with Russia, Putin has used Russian arms contracts as a foundation for cooperation with Azerbaijan on issues of shared concern, like energy security and combating ISIS.

Not exact matches

The company now caters to a variety of Armed Forces branches, as well as the Department of Defense, but Lexicon didn't land their first big contract on day one.

In most cases these benefits could be achieved through arms - length relationships such as supply contracts, licensing agreements, or alliances, making the excess cost and risk of a merger unnecessary.

The company's free online platform essentially serves as an outsourced logistics arm, enabling small businesses to grow without worrying about logistics infrastructure, shipping minimums, and contracts.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

We can give tons of money to foreign dictators as long as they promise to spend it on our arms contracts with them.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Messages from the brain to my muscles cause them to contract in ways that result in the very complex movements of my fingers and arms as I sit at the machine.

With a new lady on his arm and a bigger contract in his hand, Washington's Joe Theismann, who was once known as King Quote, is now strangely silent

I didn't want him sacked, I wanted him to see out his contract and go as a legend, applauded by everyone and welcomed back with open arms whenever he came to town.

While the Frenchmen has always kept an arm round the Englishmen's shoulder, the fact remains as things stand no new contract has been offered to a man once viewed as our future captain.

Tevez's move to Shanghai Shenhua from Boca Juniors was one of the biggest in the arms race that was the Chinese transfer window, which has since quietened down since the CFA's reforms, but his time in Shanghai has been nothing short of an unmitigated disaster and it will come as a surprise to absolutely no one when his contract is torn up and he returns to Argentina.

Your arm swing is as of now confined by pushing the stroller; in the event that you need to hold your hands surprisingly high also, you'll be considerably more enticed to contract a sitter next time.

But the potential disbursement of funds through an arm of SUNY Polytechnic comes as economic development projects throughout the state are coming under scrutiny from federal investigators over how contracts are awarded.

The failure to fulfil their Olympic contract provoked anger amongst the public as members of the armed forces had to fill the security void, many of whom had come straight from deployment in Afghanistan.

The NASUWT is campaigning vigorously for the teacher's contract to be amended in line with those of the police, armed forces and prison service to prevent BNP members from working as teachers.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Empire State Development had been providing much of SUNY Poly's funding for economic development projects, but it was the college's nonprofit real estate arms — which are not subject to the same checks and balances as state agencies — that negotiated contracts and paid vendors.

As a legal matter, authority over the use of privately contracted armed - security personnel beyond territorial sea limits (12 nautical miles from land) falls to the flag State.

Walsh was designated in a January 2015 construction management contract as one of two representatives of Fort Schuyler Management Corp. — one of SUNY Poly's nonprofit development arms — and COR Development.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

Just as a skater who brings his arms closer to his sides speeds up, so, too, a collapsing star winds itself up and spins faster when it is contracting.

Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

Electrodes embedded in the armband detect activity in a user's muscles as they contract or relax in the course of moving the hand and arm.

As you contract the triceps, move the single handle attachment down to your side until your arm is straight.

Keeping the upper arms stationary and the elbows close to your torso, curl the weights forward while contracting the biceps as hard as you can until the dumbbells are at shoulder level.

Use your non-working arm to spot the working arm and get that one last rep. Contract your bicep hard at the top position and then go slow on the eccentric part of the movement to maintain as much tension as possible throughout the entire range of motion.

Keep your upper arms stationary as you curl the weights upward by contracting your biceps.

As the back contracts to lift the chest, the arms are taken along for the ride and the kettlebells are set on their path skywards.

Begin with a slight pelvic tilt (pubic bone moves toward navel), press feet into the floor, lift hips up to knee height (or as high as your flexibility allows), contract (squeeze) your glutes (butt), hands and arms press into the floor for additional hip height and thoracic / spinal extension.

Don't move the non-working arm but, instead, contract your muscles to keep the arm completely stable as the other arm moves.

Extend your right arm and left leg so they are parallel to the ground, and contract as hard as you can.

Move arms out in a wide arc, keeping dumbbells in line with chest, slowly lower dumbbells as far as is comfortable and then return - pressing arms together by contracting and concentrating on your pectorals.

Drop the tailbone between the hips (lifting the heels as needed) Squeeze the inner thighs onto the triceps as you shift your weight smoothly onto the hands, and firmly contract the abdominal muscles by pulling the navel center toward the spine, allowing the entire back to round (similar to cat pose) Keep the gaze forward as you glide onto the hands with the elbows bending to less than 90 degrees (crocodile arms).

Contract the triceps to push the body up and off the floor, straightening the left arm as much as you can

As you perform the single arm reverse fly with kettlebell, keep the core tight (contract glutes and abdominals) and try not to twist.

MOVEMENT (ACTION): Contract your lower back muscles to lift your arms and chest up off the floor as high as you can.

With your feet hip width apart and arms stretched out in front of you and fully contracted, lower down slowly as if sitting down into a chair until your thighs are parallel to the floor.

Set during the height of the Iraq War, David Packouz (Miles Teller), a struggling masseuse - cum - travelling carpet salesman, meets childhood bestie Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), an Iraq arms dealer who exploits the little - known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on private contracts on military arsenal — it's in the archival visuals of Iraq soldiers military gear paraded as visual merchandisers, that accompanies the aforementioned prologue, that has some genuinely startling financial statistics.

The film is based on a true story and stars Jonah Hill and Miles Teller as two ambitious young men who become weapons traders for the U.S. government, landing multimillion - dollar arms contracts and living the high life before everything comes crashing down.

As Efraim explains, big business goes after the big government contracts to supply the U.S. armed forces with what they need to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

Amazon.com Inc. and CBS Corp.'s Simon & Schuster publishing arm have reached a new multiyear print and digital contract, a pact that comes as the online retailer continues difficult negotiations with Hachette Book Group.

There's still no pricing available for Bold 9780 yet, but expect to pay an arm and a leg for a short term contract as that's how Canada rolls.

The company's wireless arm is currently offering Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone for as little as $ 99.99 with a new Verizon Wireless contract, and Amazon is even throwing in free two - day shipping for good measure.

Their owner, Rachel Schmidt, had the misfortune of contracting it as well, on her arm.

(Later, an Iraqi gallery owner laid out her own spectrum of dubious wealth: arms, drugs, and blood diamonds were very bad; pharmaceuticals were on the fence; tax evasion and corruption through contracting and procurement were unremarkable; robber barons and industry titans were business as it's always been.)

Article 1 of Additional Protocol II of 1977 to the Geneva Convention applies to «armed conflicts -LSB-...] which take place in the territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organised armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol» (para. 1).

This is Part Two of a two part Blogpost where Boston Personal Injury Lawyer, Keith L. Miller, reviews and analyzes a recent First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling, in which an insurer sought a declaration that there was no coverage for an personal injuries as the result of an accident involving a contract worker who severed his arm in a wool picking machine.

Following the introduction of the code, it seems that non-contentious matters must receive the same sort of full blown risk analysis and cost budgeting as litigation cases: - The obligations are so far - reaching that they can only be dealt with by a formal arms - length contract.