Sentences with phrase «been in the country for»

Castillo has been in the country for six years; her husband, Joel, also Honduran, came here 10 years ago.

I find the fear some people have Muslims to be dumbfounding since Muslims have been in this country for years — some of them wearing head - and bodycoverings.

Professor Kim had only been in the country for a month when he was arrested.

The London Mayor called on the government to «regularise» those undocumented migrants who have been in the country for more than ten years.

The two ex-detainees are expected to be in the country for two years.

My wife and I are both white Americans, both college - educated, and our families have been in this country for more than a hundred years.

Both are in the country for talks with Gambia's embattled President Yahya Jammeh.

The car had been in the country for two months and was sitting with no use.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and some principal officers of the National Assembly had travelled to the United Kingdom on Wednesday to meet with Buhari, who is in the country for medical vacation.

Of my seven years of service, I have deployed twice (My first deployment was to Tikrit, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and I was in the country for about 13 months.

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Private and foreign investors could be forgiven for having concerns over investing in the country at a time of economic and societal change.

Last week, online Chinese real estate investment platform Uoolu.com released a guide for Chinese buyers interested in North Korean real estate, while popular accounts on the mobile messaging app WeChat have been posting articles about the country's housing market in recent weeks.

The U.S. is the last major world economy to adopt the standard, which has been in place in about 80 other countries for years.

He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around,» Bannon said in a statement released on Sunday that was obtained by Fortune.

Since 1985, the U.S. has been the largest acquirer in Canada (accounting for 60 % of all acquisitions) while Britain, France, Japan and a handful of other developed countries accounted for most of the rest.

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

The country is infamous not just for imprisoning journalists but for its totalitarian approach to media in general, including the suppression of social media through censorship of Twitter (TWTR), Facebook (FB) and YouTube.

They weren't available in China in 2014, but they have exploded since and now account for almost a third of the total vacuum market value in the country.

The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AFJSC) said nine journalists were killed in Kabul, the worst toll for media workers in a single attack in the country.

Now, both the SPD and the Christian Democrats — both parties in the country's ruling coalition — will be lead by women for the first time (the other woman is, of course, Chancellor Angela Merkel).

But there are signs that the number of armed Swiss is dropping: its now estimated there are roughly 2 million privately owned guns in the country — about one for every four Swiss people.

The work of Harvard economist Robert Barro, for example, reveals inequality is actually beneficial for economic growth in developed countries.

He argued in a blog post that a single figure, even the son of a king, in pushing for a great deal of change in a country where the politics and power accumulated over decades are complicated, could end up producing the opposite of stability.

This is a logical extension of the company's «acceptable ads» scheme and a new way in which Adblock Plus can make money from that program — a useful move for the company due to a recent court ruling in its home country of Germany.

Trade has been responsible for lifting growth in many countries, said Takehiko Nakao, president of the ADB.

Citizens of the country have even developed a reputation for having their guns ready in the closet at a moment's notice, which has led some people to wonder if the Swiss are all required to own arms in order to protect their state.

And the movie is timely with what's going on in the country today (a rarity for narrative studio movies).

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

The company was the lead sponsor for last June's NYC Pride, one of the largest LGBTQ events in the country.

Their brands are not labels but flags that should evoke the kind of patriotism we have for the countries we live in... These leaders want to change the way the planet works — or as Apple's Steve Jobs is widely quoted saying, «to make a dent in the universe.»»

Patriotic advertisements are all the rage again as the country ramps up for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The effort is already seeding power plants, railroads, and pipelines in emerging - market countries starving for such backbone investments.

After news broke in November 2006 that Siemens had been involved in a global corruption scandal, involving thousands of acts of bribery in several different countries by hundreds of employees, the company had its work cut out for it in complying with securities investigations, and paying hefty fines (about $ 2.5 billion in total).

In a country that relies on oil for more than 70 percent of its GDP8 (gross domestic product), diversifying the economy is a critical issue,» concludes Yves Duteil.

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

The Google Doodle depicting the actress is available Sunday for users in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and a number of other countries.

If you're in two different countries, however, and your budget simply won't stretch for an in - person meeting, be sure to conduct a phone interview.

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«Digital profits in Europe exist but are taxed very little or not at all,» said the European commissioner for taxation, Pierre Moscovici, who blamed traditional rules designed for companies with a physical presence in the countries where they offer their services.

CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo said that, «[I] t's really the perfect time to bring these two companies together, to create a new healthcare platform that can be easier to use and less expensive for consumers, and really create a new front door to healthcare in our country.»

The incident is a case study in how companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain have come under fire for their alleged role in the country's opioid crisis and of the questions that have been raised about the responsibility of middleman companies that distribute prescription painkillers.

«We've been coming to SXSW for years, but [now are] actually doing something that is meaningful for companies, that actually shows and inspires the entrepreneurial spirit across the country in every market,» he added.

Iran, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, re-emerged as a major oil exporter in January 2016 when some international sanctions against Tehran were lifted in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program.

And because there is a lack of machinery and an inconsistent power supply, which is necessary for refrigeration, few if any finished products are actually produced in the country.

The far bigger question mark is whether, and when, Tesla will announce plans for a factory in the country.

Although last year was favorable for developing countries, investors remember the painful «taper tantrum» that ensued several years ago, when the Fed signaled it would begin pulling back on its massive bond purchases that kept rates low while injecting liquidity in markets.

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin and has ignited intense interest in corporate and government circles.

But with the Republican bill in need of major surgery, the politics for the president are straightforward: Going after the industry, one of the country's least popular, would fulfill a promise he made to cash - strapped voters; it would allow him to highlight the unsavory deal the Obama administration cut with the sector to buy its neutrality during the original consideration of the law; and it would generate tens of billions of dollars Republicans could use to preserve some coverage for the estimated 24 million who'd lose it under their initial proposal.