Sentences with phrase «for foreign office»

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Mr Osborne would throw his supporters behind Mr Gove in return for the Foreign Office, but they are a rapidly diminishing force.

Dame Margaret Beckett, the Labour former foreign secretary, said Sir Ivan Rogers» resignation created a «crisis» for the Foreign Office.

It is for the Foreign Office to go away and explain themselves,» she said.

She added that Mr Blair had «absolutely never used his position as a Quartet representative to further business interests» and suggested that it was in «the country's interests» for Foreign Office officials to support Mr Blair's work abroad.

Counsel for the Foreign Office told the court that the threat to end the bilateral intelligence relationship was still present under President Obama, but Gordon Brown said he was not aware of any such arrangement.

give preference to a graduate of Oxford, when we're hiring for the foreign office any more, without requiring that they should be more qualified for the job in other respects.

Bad week for the Foreign Office: Getting Britons out of Libya did not go well.

It would be worse for the Foreign Office to avoid all risks, in the hope that it would never be exposed to criticism when the risks don't come off.

It also signifies a significant victory for the Foreign Office and Department of International Development, who have long wanted the weapons banned, while the Ministry of Defence have fought to retain them.

Although current Indian law does not permit foreign firms to open offices in India, firms like Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy are hiring Indian lawyers for their foreign offices.

Not exact matches

The financial affairs of numerous previously low - key unlisted or foreign - owned companies headquartered in Western Australia have been released by the Australian Taxation Office for the second year running.

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and 10 companies and other entities to its sanctions list, saying they have helped people previously penalized for North Korea's weapons development, facilitated North Korea's energy sector and enabled entities to bypass sanctions to get access to the U.S. and international financial system.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

Trump supporters say Clinton deserves to be prosecuted for her handling of U.S. foreign policy as President Barack Obama's first - term secretary of state and for her use of a private email server while in that office.

Because his company had been operating for more than a year in Israel and doing business in the U.S., Pinhas was able to come here in 2013 on a nonimmigrant L - 1 visa, which allows executives of established foreign companies to set up or work for a U.S. office.

As Director General for Defence and Intelligence in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, he was the lead adviser on counter-proliferation and other defence policy and intelligence areas.

A spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office did not say how many British diplomats would be affected, but said Russia's response was regrettable and Moscow was in flagrant breach of international law over the killing of the former spy.

Still, he insists that not very much has changed since Trump took office; the wage minimums remain the same, which means that U.S. companies can theoretically onboard foreign employees, who generally are willing to work for lower salaries than U.S. workers.

As emails disclosed by WikiLeaks laid bare internal concerns about how the Clinton Foundation's funding might impact the former Secretary of State's run for the Oval Office, former President Bill Clinton announced in August that the nonprofit would reject corporate and foreign donations if Hillary Clinton prevailed in her campaign.

Once the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added an entity to the so - called «Kingpin List,» it becomes illegal under US law for anyone to conduct business with that entity.

The meeting, Papadopoulos wrote, would be «for August or September in the UK (London) with me and my national chairman, and maybe one other foreign policy adviser and you, members of president putin's office and the mfa to hold a day of consultations and to meet one another.»

Please see the Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification website for more information on the LCA process.

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The Foreign Office and the Home Office (previously run by a cautious Theresa May) had sent warnings about cyber espionage and the lack of reciprocity for British companies.

«RBC is the bank of choice for correspondent banks with offices in Canada as a result of our ability to offer clients access to RBC's solid infrastructure and branch network as well as the knowledge and understanding of foreign markets, technical expertise and strong client focus provided by our Banks, Brokers and Exchanges team.

In fact, China has been a particular focus for trade engagement, with California opening its own foreign trade office in Shanghai, the California - China Office of Trade and Investment (CTO), inoffice in Shanghai, the California - China Office of Trade and Investment (CTO), inOffice of Trade and Investment (CTO), in 2013.

In February 2005, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research also quietly warned that U.S. banks were using foreign counterparties for their derivative trades, writing as follows:

His appointment follows significant growth and development of the real estate practice in the Kyiv office of Eterna Law and in accordance to the company's strategy aimed to strengthening of international opportunities to respond to the growing demand of Ukrainian and foreign customers for services in support of major transactions in the real estate sector.

It is, of course, illegal for an incoming Administration to discuss policies with foreign officials before taking office, as it implies authority they do not yet have.

A few weeks ago, Treasury sensitively published additions to the FAQs section on the website for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the section which oversees U.S. mercantile sanctions.

on the website for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the section which oversees U.S. mercantile sanctions.

More information can be found on the Department for Transport website and the travelling public should consult the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's travel advice pages on GOV.UK.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Wolf authored the 1998 bill that established the State Department's international religious freedom office, created an ambassador - at - large for the issue and founded a bipartisan commission to monitor foreign...

Not surprisingly, many politicians have run for office opposed to the government as though it were a foreign power, not an instrument of national purpose.

was the response of the British foreign office when an intermediary brought an offer from Eichmann to exchange the lives of a million Jews for some trucks and materiel.)

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Report of the Select Committee on the Deputation to India (New York: John A. Gray's Fire - Proof Printing Office, 1856), 37.

He also served as the US Agency for International Development (USAID) director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance around the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and 2005 Pakistan earthquake.

Lastly, the Canada Organic Office is responsible for determining the equivalence between Canadian standards and applicant countries» standards, recognizing foreign accreditation bodies, and applying procedures for issuing export certificates for Canadian products.

The latest account of Zanzibar chillies is contained in the Report of Mr. Consul Cave on the Trade and Commerce of Zanzibar for the year 1897 (Foreign Office, 1898, No. 2129, Annual Series): «The production of chillies has risen from 16,336 frasilas [about 35 pounds] in 1896 to 17,698 frasilas in 1897, an increase of 47,670 lbs.

He has worked for the Argentine Foreign Trade office as advisor for the Province of Mendoza, and the Argentine Embassy in Santiago, Chile.

«Creating Opportunities for the Irish Dairy Industry in Algeria» was a joint undertaking of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade — supported by Breifne O'Reilly, Ambassador of Ireland to Switzerland, Algeria and Lichtenstein — and Enterprise Ireland's Milan Office which covers both Algeria and Morocco.

To illustrate his point, Chilton goes into his office and returns with two foreign - made gloves cut from the same pattern; one sells for less than $ 50, the other for more than $ 100.

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.

The Foreign Office is calling for an immediate ceasefire between Russia and Georgia as Russian troops enter the country to support separatist forces.

Ministers have been careful not to respond to any allegations about Russia's involvement - something President Putin has denied - other than to say that the Foreign Office has asked the Kremlin for any information that may be useful to the investigation.

There are few other positions important enough for the elder sibling, who has already been foreign secretary and is too unsympathetic to Ed Miliband's civil liberty agenda to go to the Home Office.

The move has been seen as a diplomatic coup for the prime minister, who has made Sudan a foreign policy priority since assuming office.