Sentences with phrase «as alien territory»

In interviews, he referred to the Orthodox enclave as alien territory and that he treated it like a science fiction story.

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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...

He illustrates the remarkable creativity of religious groups as they remap their physical surroundings so as to understand what otherwise would be alien urban territory.

A major problem is to tell the story in such a way that people hear it as contemporary and relevant.51 John Taylor pointed out that we could reach outsiders not by anything we do inside the church buildings but by crossing over to the outsiders and learning to be at home in that alien territory, as the more we are engaged in Christian witness, the more we shall recognize that it is not we who make or mar the future.

Ideology, seen from within, has no outside; in this sense one does not transgress its outer limits as one crosses a geographical boundary... It is impossible to come to its frontiers from within... in discovering its demarcations, ideology discovers its self - dissolution; it can not survive the «culture shock» consequent on its stumbling into alien territory adjacent to itself....

Indeed, when the credits finally rolled, I felt as though I'd just witnessed someone pulling off a darkly clever magic trick: with very few forays into territory that'd be immediately identifiable as science fiction, Under The Skin offers viewers a two hour experience that feels absolutely, unsettlingly alien.

The film follows Natalie Portman as a biologist who volunteers for an expedition into cordoned - off alien territory after her husband (Oscar Isaac) goes missing.

Familiar territory not only for Donald Sutherland (who coped with another alien invasion in the 1978 re-make of Invasion of the Body Snatchers) but for audiences as well.

Throughout this he, along with writers John Logan and Dante Harper, explore new territory with the creation and existence of the alien species as well as the possibility of androids outsmarting humans.

The mission itself has little to do with the aliens, as Frater's team is being sent into hostile territory to extract four American soldiers — a setup that might have yielded a thrilling hybrid between «War of the Worlds» and «Saving Private Ryan,» if Green had anything approaching Spielberg's storytelling instincts.

Hooi Yen's session at Casual Connect Asia offered help in understanding the alien legal territory that startups face, including the legal nature of preference shares, the common terms used in relation to preference shares, as well as their impact on a funding round.

As the Helldivers wage war with their three different enemies - the bugs, the cyborgs, and the alien Illuminate - territory can be gained and lost based on the missions completed by players.

You must guide the little grey alien as it traverses constantly evolving territories.

If players were hesitant of jumping onto the Xbox bandwagon after playing Halo, then Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago's action - packed, testosterone - fueled adventure through alien enemy territory was certainly a reason to join in on the fun, as it was a beautiful, refreshing and fast - paced take on the third - person shooter genre.

Players will navigate through dangerous alien enemy territory, as they collect resources and upgrades in order to survive.

Sikander has also participated in significant international group shows such as Our Land / Alien Territory (special program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Manege, Moscow (2015); Infinite Challenge, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2014); Dhaka Art Summit (2014); The 13th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2013); The 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland (2013); the Sharjah Biennale 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2013); Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam of Modernity, Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin (2009); Without Boundaries, Seventeen Ways of Looking, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006); and the 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, (2005).

This means, in effect, that aliens who are subject to expulsion can not claim an entitlement to remain in the territory of a contracting state in order to benefit from the equality of treatment as to respect for their family life that they would receive there which would be denied to them in the receiving state.

Court - watchers are now left to ponder the wording of the extraterritoriality question as framed for rebriefing: «Whether and under what circumstances the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. sec. 1350, allows courts to recognize a cause of action for violations of the law of nations occurring within the territory of a sovereign other than the United States.»

It is not uncommon for plaintiffs to utilize the US courts and laws such as the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA) to challenge the legitimacy of actions taken by foreign states within their own sovereign territory.