Sentences with phrase «at by a foreign power»

«He may recall that the chancellor's cat Freya had access to the Foreign Office, Number 10 Downing Street and it was thought that she might have been got at by a foreign power.

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If America attacks Iran for any reason (treaties, foreign interests and allied ties) other than its own direct national security being threatened at her doorstep, than I speak for myself primarily when I say, Iran should do all it can in its power to secure her existence and future by any means.

In a very interesting chapter, «Playing the Bishop, Capturing the Queen,» Coontz is at her best as she chronicles the wild maneuvers of European royalty as they tried to protect their holdings and amass political power and fortune by arranging marriages with royal families of foreign provinces and nations.

The Chief Inspector's report also notes that by January 2011, over 1,600 foreign national prisoners were detained under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence pending deportation, with the average length of detention increasing from 143 days in February 2010 to 190 days in January 2011.

At a time when that democratic process is being attacked at the national level by a hostile foreign power, we hope that Democrats will get «fired up» and participate in making that process a success right here in GardineAt a time when that democratic process is being attacked at the national level by a hostile foreign power, we hope that Democrats will get «fired up» and participate in making that process a success right here in Gardineat the national level by a hostile foreign power, we hope that Democrats will get «fired up» and participate in making that process a success right here in Gardiner!

He added, «It must be stated that Nigeria's foreign reserves, which stood at $ 28.6 bn by May 2015 when President Buhari took over power, declined steadily to $ 23.89 bn by the last quarter of 2016.

Foreign secretary David Miliband today accuses the Tories of putting Britain's relations with the world's leading powers at serious risk by allying the Conservative party to far - right European politicians with neo-Nazi and antisemitic links.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

Joanna Lewis, an associate professor of science, technology and international affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, said China's wind power sector has also been aided by a steep decline in manufacturing and installation costs, as well as the establishment of a robust domestic supply chain, led by the nation's industry leader, Goldwind.

By charging cars and trucks with electricity at night, American drivers could reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil while potentially cutting power prices as well.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975 (Unrated) Cinematic collage culled from found 16 mm footage of vintage interviews conducted by Swedish journalists with leaders like Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver at the height of the Black Power Movement.

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

Unlike any other nonluxury sedan sold by a foreign automaker, the Toyota Avalon is available with a front bench seat and a column - mounted shifter - a layout specifically designed to attract the older buyers who favor Big Three cars.The sedan is based on the Camry sedan, Toyota's best - selling car line.The Avalon's ultrasmooth 3.0 - liter, 24 - valve, four - cam V - 6 engine and refined four - speed automatic make for an excellent drivetrain.Performance is crisp from a stop, and passing power is superb at all legal speeds.

Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90 % of the fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships.

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By the 1940s, China had grown tired of giving away valuable artifacts to foreign powers, and the Dunhuang Academy was founded to oversee operations and conduct research and conservation at the site.

A large share of the world's oil reserves is controlled by foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.

In the meantime, I encourage you to have a look at a fresh nonpartisan analysis and set of recommendations on climate policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, which calls for concrete steps by the United States as well as intensified efforts to build bridges between established and emerging economic powers.