Sentences with phrase «foreign governments over the years»

To preserve America's global standing as well as advance our national interests, U.S. leaders must serve as fierce advocates for human rights, which is why Planned Parenthood remains wary of Rex Tillerson, who during the course of his hearing failed to acknowledge known human rights abuses conducted by foreign governments over the years.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has spent the past three years quashing foreign investment, dedicated its summer to quibbling over cellphone bills and filled its speech from the throne with promises to fuss with credit card fees, retail prices and the nation's cable television packages.

This year, the government announced a much bigger investment geared toward collecting housing data — $ 300 million over the next decade, including $ 39.9 million to study foreign ownership.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The rouble has weakened some 30 percent versus the dollar this year, as Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis have made it harder for banks and companies to refinance foreign currency debts and as tumbling oil prices have hurt government revenue.

Foreign visitors to the Reserve Bank over the years have tended to raise questions about household debt much more frequently than they have raised questions about government debt.

Making matters worse is the government's management of the crisis; over the past year, it has persisted in upholding its debt payments, but has now hit a brick wall as its foreign reserves have dwindled to US$ 9 billion.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

While foreign Chinese investment jumped 56 percent year over year to $ 28.2 billion in 2016, Morgan Stanley predicted that the government crackdown could result in an 84 percent drop in Chinese investment this year.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

• Behind the Iran - contra scandal there is a «secret team,» operating inside and outside the U.S. government, which has over a period of more than twenty - five years powerfully influenced or controlled U.S. foreign policy.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

Former defence secretary Liam Fox has turned down an opportunity to return to the government as a Foreign Office minister, more than two years after he resigned over a controversy about his unofficial adviser and friend Adam Werritty.

He worked on South Asia foreign policy for over nine years in the U.S. government.

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.

When a foreign holder of Treasuries is willing to give up 40 basis points of yield on a 10 - year T - note yielding 3.80 %, so that they can get paid off in Euros if there is a repudiation of US Treasury obligations, there is significant uncertainty over the creditworthiness of the US Government.

Over the past year $ 50 to $ 75 billion in foreign funds has found its way into the Canadian fixed - income marketplace, including government - issued bonds but also corporate bonds.

The government expects foreign arrivals to increase from 250,000 to 1 million people over the next four years.

In his own words, Paglen's artistic project is to create «new metaphors» for the «invisible war» — the weaponization of space, the militarization of the internet, mass surveillance, and counterintelligence efforts by U.S. and foreign governments over the past 15 years, most of which remain classified.

They have joined Set America Free, a group that wants the government to spend $ 12 billion over four years on plug - in hybrids, alternative fuels and other measures to reduce foreign oil dependence.