Sentences with phrase «attempts by foreign governments»

China had fought previous attempts by foreign governments to limit carbon emissions, claiming it should be allowed the same space to develop and pollute that industrialized nations had.

China had fought previous attempts by foreign governments to limit carbon emissions, claiming it should be allowed the same space to develop and pollute that industrialized nations had.

While snatching politically sensitive documents as part of an espionage plot might be part of statecraft and intelligence efforts (rightly or wrongly), Motherboard's Rid points out that leaking those documents (and potentially manipulated ones) to a global audience represents an unprecedented and dangerous attempt by a foreign government that is openly hostile to U.S. policies and interests.

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Devaluation means a deliberate attempt by a government or central bank to lower the value of its currency in foreign - exchange markets.

The admission may provide further ammunition for a recent Malaysian government crackdown on foreign banks trading in the ringgit in offshore market, seen by bankers as an attempt to curb a devaluation of the currency.

In an attempt to deter Soviet influence in the Middle East in the 1950s, the State Department backed a Saudi Arabian accounting maneuver that reclassified the royalties charged by foreign governments to American oil drillers.

Following an attempt by the Abu Dhabi government to purchase major US port facilities a decade ago, CFIUS was reformed to include, for example, review of sovereign foreign investment or a purchase that would involve foreign investment in critical infrastructure.

That perhaps lends credence to critics» assertions that the petro is just a virtual barrel of oil, an attempt by the Maduro government to raise billions of dollars in foreign exchange in order to keep the government in operation without having to do the actual hard work of drilling for and shipping oil.

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.

In an extraordinary move, Conservative members of the government were told to abstain on an amendment by Dominic Raab attempting to remove the right of foreign criminals facing deportation to make an appeal based on their right to a family life.