Sentences with phrase «foreign powers such»

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

Not exact matches

«The only way to address these legitimate concerns is to reopen the deal itself and change those provisions that give foreign investors and big corporations such power to dictate government policy,» Barlow said.

People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

Such a warrant would only have been granted if the FBI — not the Obama administration — was able to convince a judge that the Trump campaign had credible links to a foreign power.

Trudeau did, however, demonstrate that he still has drawing power, such as when foreign journalists packed his final news conference at the Summit of the Americas in Peru.

Moreover, the large pay increases awarded to many Chinese workers in foreign - owned plants — such as the 30 % award to the 300,000 workers in the Foxconn International Holdings (PINK ADR: FXCNY) plant — must inevitably push up both Chinese purchasing power and Chinese inflation.

The platforms that control access to Chinese consumers online wield such enormous power that even multibillion - dollar foreign brands can have trouble fighting back, the AP found in interviews with more than 30 industry players.

Whether inflation rises or the Federal Reserve Bank uses its power over interest rates to limit the potential inflationary impact of the falling dollar, the ultimate outcome of our recent overdependence on foreign saving will be a lower standard of living (or slower increases in living standards), such that decent levels of retirement income (private and public) can not be maintained.

Such a violation of human ecology must be analyzed with regard to the domination of Korea by foreign powers and the divide - and - conquer strategies that continue to dehumanize the victimized people of the third world.

True, the latter does not emphasize the life - giving powers of wisdom, though this is not foreign to its thought, and some passages approximate such statement (3:18, 22; 4: -13, 22; 7:2 - 8:35).

A lot of foreign managers have also arrived in England over the past few years and presence of high profile names such as Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and Jurgen Klopp among others, serves as evidence to the attracting power of the Premier League.

No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

The UK is also seen as offering a welcome to infrastructure investment that delivers stable long - term returns that continues to be of great interest to China from projects regarded as too sensitive for foreign involvement by other states, such as the nuclear power industry.

The government could stop turning a blind eye to people whose wealth came from foreign corruption, such as by applying new «unexplained wealth order» powers.

Such instruments of deliberative democracy may be distinctly «foreign» and at odds with the elitist British political tradition, with the culture and rituals of a traditional power - hoarding democracy and with the predilection for «muddling through» that defined British politics in the twentieth century.

There were staggering gaps in procedural and operational security, and the architecture of the system leaves it open to cyberattacks from foreign powers, such as Russia.

The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.

James Madison advocated for the ratification of the Constitution in The Federalist and at the Virginia ratifying convention upon a narrow construction of the clause, asserting that spending must be at least tangentially tied to one of the other specifically enumerated powers, such as regulating interstate or foreign commerce, or providing for the military, as the General Welfare Clause is not a specific grant of power, but a statement of purpose qualifying the power to tax.

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

He brings firsthand experience to foreign affairs and defense issues from his service as an Army colonel — experience that allows him to speak frankly about the limits of military power and possible cuts to defense without fears of being labeled «soft on terror» or other such nonsense, which, in our increasingly veteran - light Congress, others try to insulate themselves against.

With Kenya's presidential election drawing near, campaigns here are for the first time making widespread use of opinion polls, text messaging, teleprompters, spin doctors, $ 15,000 - a-plate fundraisers and even high - powered foreign political consultants such as Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, who swooped in for a few days to counsel opposition candidate Raila Odinga.

Solar project up and running in 12 months Financial support for Power Africa has extended beyond the State Department's initial $ 7 billion commitment to include contributions from other agencies, such as the Millennium Challenge Corp., created by Congress in 2004 to link foreign aid to good governance.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

Foreign nuclear groups such as Toshiba Corp's Westinghouse and Areva have won multi-billion dollar contracts to build nuclear power plants in the world's second largest economy.

Over time, union power dwindled, not because the bargaining structure was reformed, but because deregulation and greater foreign competition left labor fewer monopoly profits to extract in key industries such as automobile and steel.

The list of features in the fully loaded Grand Prix GTX is long, but even so, such things as the power sunroof, power windows, door locks and mirrors, cruise control, CD player and automatic air conditioning system don't push the price of the car anywhere near a foreign sports sedan with the same equipment.

Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90 % of the fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships.

Foreign Exchange came into fruition (literally) from an interest in democratic networks and systems with an absent central point of power: The mycelium material is similar to certain threads of the Internet, and other organisms» webbed biospheres, such as honeybee hives and ant colonies.

The exhibition includes work such as Paolo Cirio's installation that obfuscates the 15 million mugshots made public on internet databases for corporate profit, Maryam Jafri's photographs of Asian and African independence ceremonies and Edgardo Aragón's critical cartography and video of everyday conditions in Cachimbo, Mexico that demonstrates the crippling effects imposed by a foreign power.

The Obama team declined to comment on such a post, even as environmentalists and power industry executives say it's being widely discussed inside the transition offices as a way to spur a clean energy industry, which Mr. Obama has promised will ween the U.S. from foreign oil and create millions of «green jobs.»

Pavel provides legal support for Russian and foreign clients in such economic sectors as the power industry, oil and gas, financial services, industrial production, trade, etc..

Every congressional «exception» was approved by Congress; moreover, such benefits are not from a foreign power.

Incident to these powers, and for preventing controversies between foreign powers or citizens from rising to extremities and to an appeal to the sword, a national tribunal was necessary amicably to decide them, and thus ward off such fatal public calamity.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

It is envisaged that one such scenario could be where the foreign arbitral tribunal has power to make an interim order, but that order can not otherwise be enforced in