Sentences with phrase «foreign governments sought»

Condor has taken on added significance in recent years as victims of the dictatorships, their families and foreign governments seek to bring torturers and killers to justice, beginning with Pinochet's 1998 temporary detention in England on a Spanish warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity.

We have experience of applying IAEA laws and standards and can advise foreign governments seeking to introduce new nuclear legal regimes.

Also, often, different procedures apply and different limitations apply when a foreign government seeks to enforce a claim for a money judgment against a private individual abroad.

Not exact matches

Trump has sought to assuage concerns about foreign government spending at his properties by offering to donate profits from such business to the U.S. Treasury.

The data underlined concerns that, after a long period of growth through globalization and reliance on global trade, governments are increasingly seeking to protect their own industries and promote domestic producers at the expense of foreign competitors.

Government officials also floated the possibility of significantly higher fees for companies seeking temporary foreign workers.

Governments may seek to attract foreign investment yet also discriminate against it.

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

Rather than scrap Nafta's arbitration tribunals, regarded by some free - trade critics as secretive bodies that give private corporations unbridled power to challenge foreign governments outside the court system, the letter proposed to «maintain and seek to improve procedures» for settling disputes.

Rather, the increase in spreads appears to reflect both tightness in the Commonwealth Government bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate bonds are priced) as companies have sought to lock in fixed - rate borrowings due to expected increases in interest rates.

Canada's striking foreign service officers have escalated their job action to 15 major embassies after an attempt to seek binding arbitration with the federal government broke down Friday.

«The ambassador has urgently contacted Saudi authorities and will make strong representations, including to key figures in the Saudi government, seeking leniency,» said Kate Sieper, a foreign affairs spokeswoman.

Foreign corporations will now be entitled not only to sue governments in domestic courts, but also to seek legal relief in international tribunals for alleged violations of the MAI.

Worse, these activities gave the Chinese government the opportunity to blame the efforts of those seeking to regain Tibetan independence on the activities of foreign powers — whereas, of course, it was an entirely Tibetan initiative.»

After all, these were the lingering memories to overcome of the debacle of 1976, when the then Labour government needed to seek a loan from the IMF to shore up the Pound in the foreign exchange markets.

The Liberal Democrats should therefore seek to obtain fewer government posts but insist on controlling high - spending and visible government departments such as the Department for Education, the Department for International Development, the Home Office or even the Foreign Office.

Listen to Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey support Reprieve's legal action seeking to force the government to publish its guidance on intelligence gained through torture:

Green said that in 2010, the Government had «removed more than 5,000 foreign criminals, 43 % by the end of their prison sentence», adding that «where there are barriers to early removal, the agency seeks to detain them to protect the public».

Giving further details on the matter on Kumasi - based Nhyira FM, the NDC lawmaker said, it is time for the Ghanaian government to seek better treatment for people seeking visa from foreign embassies in the country.

He disclosed that the Federal Government would be seeking a Mutual Legal Assistance from the foreign governments to stop those funding the group and deal with IPOB members as terrorists.

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.

But in the last decade, the Japanese government has sought to counter this by internationalizing the country through a series of administrative innovations, alliances with foreign government agencies, financial support for foreign scholars, and programs that bolster top universities» international recruitment efforts.

Although the government has sought to internationalize the country for decades, it wasn't until the early 2000s, when the Japanese government reorganized itself into new ministries, that recruiting foreign talent became more of a crystallized mission.

In practice, the moves meant U.S. companies and researchers seeking a government permit to share technologies with foreign partners faced «a presumption of denial,» says Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. «If you want to export something the answer is no unless you have a specific waiver or exemption.»

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

A private firm staffed by ex-intelligence operatives — whose clients include major American corporations and foreign governments — seeking to influence events through bribery, blackmail and manipulating the truth?

Panther Small Cap Fund will seek long - term capital appreciation by investing 80 % in small cap stocks, though they allow that the other 20 % might go to «micro, mid or large capitalization stocks, stocks of foreign issuers, American depository receipts («ADRs»), U.S. government securities and exchange - traded funds.»

The S&P Global Developed Aggregate Ex-Collateralized Bond Index (USD), which seeks to track the performance of investment - grade debt issued by sovereign, quasi-sovereign, foreign government, and corporate entities in developed countries, delivered a total return of 7.64 % in 2017.

Mackenzie Core Plus Global Fixed Income ETF (TSX: MGB) seeks to generate income, with an emphasis on capital preservation, by investing primarily in investment - grade fixed income securities denominated in Canadian or foreign currencies that are issued by companies or governments.

seeks to generate income, with an emphasis on capital preservation, by investing primarily in investment - grade fixed income securities denominated in Canadian or foreign currencies that are issued by companies or governments.

«It has become our main card lately,» he says, when seeking support from the government or foreign non-governmental organizations.

A spokesman for the US Government's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)- which Holdren directs - said «the administration's primary focus is still to seek comprehensive energy legislation that can get us closer to a clean energy economy, and can create green jobs while reducing dependence on foreign oil.»

• Acting for the successful Claimant in R (on the application of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] EWHC 1502 (Admin), a challenge to guidance from the defendant Secretary of State which sought to prohibit the administering authorities of the local government pension schemes from adopting policies of boycott, divestment and sanction against foreign nations (led by Nigel GGovernment [2017] EWHC 1502 (Admin), a challenge to guidance from the defendant Secretary of State which sought to prohibit the administering authorities of the local government pension schemes from adopting policies of boycott, divestment and sanction against foreign nations (led by Nigel Ggovernment pension schemes from adopting policies of boycott, divestment and sanction against foreign nations (led by Nigel Giffin QC).

From the Intercept: With these stolen encryption keys, intelligence agencies can monitor mobile communications without seeking or receiving approval from telecom companies and foreign governments.

Improved methods of reclaiming funds from foreign patients and countries is a logical avenue of discussion for a government seeking to relieve the increasing pressures on the NHS.

With these stolen encryption keys, intelligence agencies can monitor mobile communications without seeking or receiving approval from telecom companies and foreign governments.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has sought to dampen concern that what the government has called a «sea change» is all that big a deal.

A default judgment — which can be multimillions of dollars — allows the plaintiff to seek enforcement of that judgment against the financial and other assets of the foreign government held in the US.

Finally, Akande writes, «[o] ne further area where there is reason to be cautious about the application of international law by national courts is when those national courts seek to apply international law not against their own governments but against foreign governments.»

The reason the inclusion of ISDS provisions is to provide foreign investors the right to seek compensation for damages arising out of breaches of investment related obligations (such as Expropriation, Most Favoured Nation, National Treatment and Fair and Equitable Treatment) by Host State Governments.

The spouses and children of temporary foreign workers can seek dependent non-immigrant status in the U.S. through the U.S. consulate in their country (if they are outside the US) or through the government (if they are temporarily inside the US) on a visa.

The Open Technology Institute also denounced the CLOUD Act's provision to «allow qualifying foreign governments to enter into an executive agreement to bypass the human rights protective Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) process when seeking data in criminal investigations and to seek data directly from U.S. technology companies.»

After those requirements are met, the request can move along to the tech company hosting the data that the foreign government is seeking.

After extensive International logistical coordination with the United States Military as well as other foreign military governments, I am seeking new and stimulating opportunities within a corporation that offers an opportunity to utilize my logistical support and customer service expertise.