Sentences with phrase «foreign government help»

This is not about finding dirt, this is about accepting a foreign government help to influence elections, and THAT is, without any doubt, totally illegal.

• A former lobbyist for foreign governments helped plan an Australia trip, later canceled, for Scott Pruitt, and sought to disguise his role.

Ex-Lobbyist for Foreign Governments Helped Plan Pruitt Trip to Australia Lisa Friedman et al., The New York Times

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China's next targets: rail, roads, ports The powerful chairman of China's $ US200 billion ($ 307 billion) sovereign wealth fund, Lou Jiwei, has met Treasurer Wayne Swan and West Australian Premier Colin Barnett to clarify rules on foreign investment in resources and discuss whether China could help finance the Rudd government's infrastructure program.

Data compiled by Kenney's department shows that thousands of companies and government departments, federal and provincial alike, have hired foreign help in recent years.

Treason, after all, is plotting to overthrow the government, or at least helping a foreign government defeat our state.

Fortunately, you have already conducted a significant amount of investigation into the new market; use that information to help your company determine how you are going to run all aspect of your business in the new country, from dealing with foreign government regulations, to transport, logistics, pricing, and marketing.

Foreign partners that have helped stabilize weak governments in the past are distracted.

Meanwhile he turned to friendly foreign governments — particularly China — to take on some of 1MDB's power and property assets and help the fund repay its borrowings.

The consultant, Matthew C. Freedman, who is also a former lobbyist for foreign governments, runs his own corporate advisory firm and is treasurer of the American Australian Council, a group that helps promote business for American - based companies in Australia.

Here, particularly in southern European economies, governments are actively looking to attract foreign buyers to help stimulate ailing mainstream property markets and boost economic growth.»

In this post, we'll look at six strategies for writing solid contracts that will help you avoid problems with foreign customers and governments.

Viewing these companies as allies rather than merely as customers from whom to make as large a profit as quickly as possible, German bank officials sat on their boards, and helped expand their business by extending loans to foreign governments on condition that their clients be named the chief suppliers in major public investments.

Bank bailouts have been aimed at protecting local institutions, as discussed earlier, and the Japanese government is buying stocks of Japan - based corporations to help company balance sheets, but also giving them a competitive advantage over the subsidiaries of foreign outfits.

The British government diverted 1.85 million pounds ($ 3 million) of foreign aid money to help pay for the state visit of Pope Benedict XVI last year, lawmakers charged Thursday.

While it maybe be true that large pools of institutional money are better at buying political favors, influencing scientific research, and swaying foreign governments, it has always been known and is frequently demonstrated that individuals always do better at loving and caring for other individuals, tend to be wiser stewards of money, and view their giving and service toward others as a means of actually helping them, rather than a means to gain political power or popular prestige.

Finally he recited a list of some of the more illustrious foreign missionaries in the Punjab — John Lowrie and William Reed, the first missionaries in 1834; Charles Forman, who founded the distinguished college which bears his name; Hervey Griswold, the missionary scholar who pioneered in Pun - jab sociology; and some of the more recent missionary heroes, such as Ernie Campbell, who received an Indian government citation for helping resettle refugees; James Alter, who established a center for interreligious understanding; and Clinton Loehlin, who founded the Institute for Sikh Studies at Baring College.

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.

Foreign secretary David Miliband has offered British help to an inquiry, but said Britain has no reason to doubt the Pakistani government's account of how Ms Bhutto died.

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).

The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has tonight called Iraq's President Fouad Massoum, urging him to help form an «inclusive» government.

The government had by this point built up large reserves of foreign exchange to buffer against potential volatility, reduced annual inflation from 31 per cent in 2004 to 7,5 per cent a decade later, and established of a sovereign wealth fund to help diversify the economy.

This is what we know: the Electoral Commission is still assessing claims that potentially illegal donations were made; the information commissioner is investigating «possible illegal» use of data; the heads of MI6 and GCHQ have both voiced unprecedented warnings about foreign interference in our democratic systems; the government has refused to elaborate on what these are; one of the leave campaigns has admitted the undeclared support and help of the American hedge fund billionaire who backed Trump; the Crown Prosecution Service is being asked to mount a criminal investigation; and questions have been raised about possible unlawful collaboration between different elements of the leave campaign.

The Clinton campaign in a statement said Trump's comment is the first time a political candidate has sought the help of a foreign government to conduct espionage against an opponent.

Stephen Wall is one of a handful of superbly professional British diplomats who have served successive British Governments and helped Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries pick their ways through this tricky terrain.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson added: «I think anybody with an ounce of compassion would like to see spending by our government helping these people get back on their feet and getting these British overseas territories helped in the long term.»

Before leaving Kano however, Buhari was reported to have on Thursday said current changes to trade and investment policies by the government since he was inaugurated in May 2015 will help the nation to diversify the economy, attract more foreign investments and speed up the country's industrialisation.

The Foreign Secretary clashed with Theresa May at Cabinet on Wednesday, suggesting the Government had not done enough to help the Windrush generation.

To supplement Leonhardt's COER salary, photonics expert Sailing He and colleagues at COER helped him apply to two government programs for attracting foreign talent: the Recruitment Program of Foreign Experts, or «Thousand Talents» plan, which offers a onetime 500,000 RMB ($ 81,642) resettlement subsidy for a minimum of 3 years of part - time work, and a program offshoot called the Guangdong Province Leading Talent grant, which brings an additional one - time subsidy of 1 million RMB plus up to 5 million RMB in research funds over 5foreign talent: the Recruitment Program of Foreign Experts, or «Thousand Talents» plan, which offers a onetime 500,000 RMB ($ 81,642) resettlement subsidy for a minimum of 3 years of part - time work, and a program offshoot called the Guangdong Province Leading Talent grant, which brings an additional one - time subsidy of 1 million RMB plus up to 5 million RMB in research funds over 5Foreign Experts, or «Thousand Talents» plan, which offers a onetime 500,000 RMB ($ 81,642) resettlement subsidy for a minimum of 3 years of part - time work, and a program offshoot called the Guangdong Province Leading Talent grant, which brings an additional one - time subsidy of 1 million RMB plus up to 5 million RMB in research funds over 5 years.

CzechInvest, a government agency that helps domestic manufacturers connect with foreign business partners and provides capital investment, could help as well, says Dobos - Nagy.

Probably by coincidence, writer - director Anderson, with the help of Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Kunichi Nomura, employ themes of topical relevance today: government corruption, foreign influences on government, student protests, and issues related to animal research.

However, the government's introduction of student loan reimbursement programme for science and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) teachers may help to reduce the number of teachers leaving in the future.

With the help and cooperation of fifteen major anime production companies and manga publishers, the Japanese government started a huge extermination operation against 580, and counting, foreign sites which have illegally uploaded anime and manga contents on the web without the copyright holder's permission.

If you're paying taxes to another government, the foreign tax credit helps you from being subject to double taxation.

The agency enforces Federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign and Native American Tribal governments with their conservation efforts.

In addition to conferring certain protections under the MMPA, a depleted designation for the Sakhalin - Amur beluga whale stock would encourage the United States and foreign governments, conservation organizations, the scientific community, and funding institutions to support research and conservation efforts to help recover these belugas and protect their habitat.

, 2016 • «Foreign Anti-Corruption Compliance: Director and Office Obligations and Considerations», Corporate Governance by Federated Press, Volume IX, No. 4, 2013 • Canada Gets Tough on Corruption, February 2013 • «Why You Should Think About an Anti-Corruption Compliance Program», TechSTARTUPCenter.com, April 2013 • «Tendering Law: The Evolution of the Duty of Fairness and What it Means for Clients», Presentation, 18th East Region Solicitors Conference 2012 • Panelist, Government of Canada, Economic Action Plan Roundtable: «Helping Businesses Sell to the Government of Canada», 2011 • «A Comparison of Canada's Proposed Consumer Product Safety Legislation (Bill C - 52) and its American Counterpart», Focus on Federal Advocacy and Policy, June 2008

Businesses can offer employment to foreign workers with the requirement that they help the worker settle, and the federal government has committed to processing applications for permanent residency in six to 12 months.

Press coverage: Guardian — Lord Goldsmith got taxpayer help for Iraq war inquiry legal advice Chilcot inquiry: Lawyers expose pressure to give green light for war Times — Lord Goldsmith to face pressure over legal U-turn on Iraq war Telegraph — Government knew «no leg to stand on» legally to go to war in Iraq Independent — Invade and be damned: Foreign Office lawyers say advice on legality of war was ignored

Fortunately for these courts, they are increasingly discovering that they can help maintain the space for domestic deliberation and strengthen the ability of their governments to withstand the pressure brought to bear by foreign and local interest groups and powerful foreign governments.

Central bank issued digital fiat currency using distributed ledger and blockchain technology is a way for governments to protect foreign currency reserves, reduce costs, improve the ease of doing business and a number of other benefits that can help stimulate economic growth.»

Help engage opinion leaders and government officials to assure better access to key foreign markets and enhance brand and bottom line through strategic sponsorships, partnerships and training.

The government needs to get out of the immediate - gratification - of wants - for - votes - business and get back to doing what governments are meant to do, being, to protect our persons, property (that we can afford without outside government help) and personal rights, protect us from foreign invasion, and provide essential services from the tax base.

The allure of Seattle was further cemented in August 2016 when the British Columbian government imposed a 15 - percent foreign buyer tax in Vancouver's Lower Mainland, helping redirect Chinese nationals south of the border as captured by a recent news article by CBC News that claims foreign buyers are heading to Seattle at a «frenetic» pace.