Sentences with phrase «controlled by foreign powers»

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

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While Saudi's system of absolute monarchy means the King is legally the highest authority in the Kingdom, bin Salman has been granted unprecedented control of the state's domestic and foreign policies by his ailing, octogenarian father, ostensibly making him the real power behind the throne.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last month tightened his control over the State Department by taking back powers previously held by the top career foreign service officer, an action critics said would delay major decisions and marginalize career diplomats.

A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity.

The Jones Act, a rather complex piece of legislation designed to control the island, prevent foreign powers from gaining a foothold, and keep Puerto Ricans under firm control by limiting their ability to trade independently.

In John Frankenheimer's paranoiac Cold War parable, undercover subversive Eleanor Shaw Iselin (Angela Lansbury) takes manipulation to a terrifying extreme: Her son Raymond (Laurence Harvey) is an assassin conditioned to kill by a foreign power, and Eleanor is the operative responsible for controlling him.

It has never been controlled or colonized by a foreign power and so much of the indigenous culture has been well preserved.