Sentences with phrase «first foreign country»

It was the first foreign country I was taken on holiday by my parents, aged 2.

Nazi Germany was the first foreign country in which the future Israeli flag first officially flew.

Not exact matches

Hungary was one of the first European countries to turn against foreign ownership of utilities back in 2013 but there are growing signs that borders are springing up again in an industry that has struggled to make international deals pay off.

Capital outflows from China in the first 10 months of 2016 rocketed to an estimated $ 530 billion, while the country's stash of foreign reserves has fallen nearly 25 % from a peak of just under $ 4 trillion in early 2014.

When Canada first launched the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 1973, it was designed to allow companies to hire skilled professionals, like engineers, from outside the country when their expertise couldn't be found in the domestic market.

A reform committee led by Xi called on the Foreign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach thatForeign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach thatforeign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach thatForeign Ministry official in 20 years to reach that level.

He wants to see business improve its productivity, increase its R&D investment and grow its exports to new foreign markets — particularly to emerging markets, which for the first time in 2012 will import more goods than will the developed countries.

A 123 agreement is only the first step for a foreign country that wants to employ U.S. nuclear - power technology.

«Here it is: If you are a foreign national or citizen of one of these seven countries that were first identified by President Obama in 2015, then you can not come to the United States at this moment.»

The first is the physical presence test, which means you have been in a foreign country for 330 days of the year.

Abe was the first foreign leader to meet Trump, and the two countries» military alliance has helped to sustain peace in East Asia for the past 60 years.

China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, received the first application from a foreign payment company to enter the country's booming...

In early 1968, the financially strapped administration became so alarmed about the country's trade imbalance that Mr. Fowler proposed a detailed plan to Congress to curb foreign travel by imposing a tax on spending outside the Western Hemisphere at rates of 15 or 30 percent, exempting only the first $ 7 a day.

Through the first 11 months of 2017, foreign countries purchased $ 91.4 billion in US equities.

TD is only the latest global financial firm to choose Dublin as its post-Brexit EU hub, joining 15 others that have announced their intentions to set up or expand their operations in Ireland in the first half of 2017, according to IDA Ireland, which promotes foreign direct investment into the country.

The change is one of many in the North American energy landscape affecting Pemex, which also faces competition in exploration and production as Mexico prepares to allow foreign oil companies back into the country for the first time in 75 years.

First, you receive a $ 100 credit towards the application fee for the Global Entry program, which includes TSA PreCheck expedited domestic security at the airport and priority service when you return to the United States after visiting a foreign country.

Our first day on the ground in a foreign country, where do we eat?

Or, consider this example: First - admission rates for alcoholic psychosis (to mental hospitals in New York State) of those born in foreign countries (figures are per 100,000 of the same nationality in New York state hospitals, 1929 - 31): Irish — 25.6 %; Scandinavian — 7.8 %; Italian — 48 %; English — 4.3 %; German — 3.8 %; Jews (all nationalities)-- 0.5 %.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

I like how Andrew put it in the comment section: «Picture a traveler, coming into a foreign country, and asking the first person they meet, «Who's the sovereign here?»

Italy is the seventh - largest foreign supplier to the United States and was the country's first international supplier of wine, extra virgin olive oil, cheese, pasta and mineral water.

As a natural result of trade, migration, and foreign invaders, they first spread through India and then into the neighboring countries.

Just what I needed on this first day of school in a foreign country.

Why is this even an issue?We make some we buy some like we've always done.It's not like we've ever had a full team or first eleven playing for Arsenal where all the player actually came through our ranks and were not bought from foreign countries to come through our ranks.The fact is Arsenal give youngsters a chance time and time again such that even if they're average and were destined to be world class and they become world class then that's where the saying that» We don't buy superstars, we make them» arises.They continually give youngsters a chance that's the reason and we are unlike so many teams out there.

Why is this even an issue?We make some we buy some like we've always done.It's not like we've ever had a full team or first eleven playing for Arsenal where all the player actually came through our ranks and were not bought from foreign countries to come through our ranks.The fact is Arsenal give youngsters a chance time and time again such that even if they're average and were destined to be world class and they become world class then that's where the saying that» We don't buy superstars, we make them» arises.They continually give youngsters a chance that's the reason and we are unlike so ma ny teams out there.

The constant influx of foreign talent, undoubtedly has a detrimental effect on the development of home - grown players, and something that has to change in the near future if we are to see more exciting, young British talent coming through to first teams around the country.

It was one of the first births I've cried at because it just pulls so much on your heart, how mom and dad serve this country with all their heart, and now birth their first child while separated by thousands of miles of ocean and foreign lands.

Hopes of a breakthrough in Anglo - Russian relations are being downplayed as the foreign secretary visits the country for the first time in five years.

He attempts to get a US congressman to table a «favourable» motion (about independence) to «snooker» the Foreign Office, tries but fails to persuade the former (Labour) first minister Henry McLeish to back independence (he «is clearly torn between loyalty to party and country»), and tries but fails to win the Scottish Sun's backing (on September 7th Murdoch is still prevaricating; by September 16th he has opted for «benign neutrality»).

But neither the African governmental officials nor the private foreign banks who made the decision to loan in the first place lose out, as European and North American governments step in to provide further financial assistance for African countries as they begin to lapse on loan repayments: «In effect, public money from the governments of industrialised countries -LSB-...] helped to bail out the private creditors» (p. 33).

Congressman Adriano Espaillat, the first Dominican - American to serve on the Hill, has lambasted President Donald Trump for his efforts to expel foreign nationals from the United States — but the formerly undocumented lawmaker defended his native country's recent moves to strip thousands of individuals of Haitian descent of their citizenship, policies Amnesty International warned have «created a human rights crisis.»

Veterans have put the well - being of the country first and their service ought to be respected even when we disagree with the military and foreign policies of our civilian political leadership, as I did when I was a Marine during the Vietnam War.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he and his brother first got into politics in the 1980s and said the poster was a «powerful reminder of the damage which the Tories did to Britain in the 80s and the threat which they pose to the country should they win the election».

Clegg also criticises a tendency towards «erratic changes in Conservative foreign policy», especially in its reportedly fleeting and faddish embrace of different countries and regions as being the priority of the moment: first India, then China and latterly the Gulf States.

Emphasizing government's determination to drive its economic agenda to achieve the broad principles of restoring and sustaining economic growth, building a competitive economy and investing in the people, the Minister said government is focused on achieving a least 7 % GDP growth; $ 10 billion in Foreign Direct investment; 10 GW of power generation and placing among the first 100 countries on the Ease of Doing Business ranking by 2020.

She also said the United States» foreign policies are what caused them to flee their countries in the first place.

So Anna Agnarsdottir of the University of Iceland recounts how Bank's exploration of Iceland, the first scientific expedition by foreign naturalists, led to his lifelong involvement with the country, while another contributor, Dorothy Middleton, points out his role in encouraging Europeans to explore the interior of Africa.

Noting that Canada was one of the first countries to sign onto the 1994 treaty, New Democratic and foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said its decision to withdraw shows «that they either did not understand this convention, or they're willingly isolating Canada even more.»

The move is a first step towards establishing carbon trading markets in China and further evidence of the country's commitment to tackling climate change, says Felix Preston of Chatham House, a foreign - policy think tank based in London.

We first explored foster care, then adoption, then surrogacy in a foreign country.

One of the first things I'll be blogging about is my upcoming travels in a foreign country while maintaining my Keto lifestyle.

When Gail Adams first became single after being married for 22 years, she remembered feeling as if she had moved to a foreign country and didn't know the language.

I had all - day job in Finland but I decided to get some experience from foreign countries and Poland was my first choice.

You may not see it advertised in foreign countries, as much as other sites, but local Philippine ladies make it their first choice of where to list their profile.

Thanks to Kevin K. 65 countries vie for 2010 Foreign Language Film Oscar ¬ Æ Beverly Hills, CA (October 13, 2010) «Äî Sixty - five countries, including first - time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland, have submitted...

This movie reinforces the risks young girls face when traveling to a foreign country but I would assume there is no need to reinforce running wild in a foreign place and getting drunk because sadly this wouldn't be the first girl to get drunk and have something bad happen to her by the hands of an unscrupulous guy, murdered, raped, sold into the sex trade or white slavery..

The film became the first in the country's history to receive both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination as the year's Best Foreign Film.

Some American critics took issue with Arnold's ugly - beautiful portrait as a kind of inauthentic burlesque of their country, skewed by foreign preconceptions and blind spots — though not as many as those who took against Martin McDonagh's Oscar - winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which weathered a firestorm of political and moral debate, backlashes and counter-backlashes, between its rapturous first reception in Venice and the Academy Awards.

Armenia hosts one of Russia's biggest foreign military bases, offsetting a longstanding OSCE arms embargo against it, yet during President Sargsyan's first term he also strengthened his country's ties with NATO and for the most part upheld international sanctions against neighboring Iran, despite the extensive opportunity costs to the Armenian economy.