Sentences with phrase «give foreign powers»

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«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.

Being bigger gave them more pricing power when dealing with oil service contractors and greater leverage when negotiating with foreign governments.

Then, the ETF gives you the power to adjust your position easily, the ability to buy foreign stocks without foreign currency risk and nearly eliminates company - specific risk.

Ramo writes with ease and authority about the technology, history, and foreign policy of this power shift, giving us an essential guide for the future.

Canada's Federal Court could be given greater powers to combat unacceptable behaviour by domestic and foreign «patent trolls» — companies that do not make or sell a product but sue other companies for patent infringement based on existing patent rights the troll has secured.

«He should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, who serve in the military today at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers,» Pompeo said on C - SPAN on Feb. 11.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who famously leaked documents, showed NSA implanted malware on tens of thousands of foreign computers which gave the government access to data to control the power plant and pipeline systems.

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.

There is absolutely nothing progressive about a trade deal that gives special powers and privileges to foreign private investors, that undermines democratic and legal institutions, and that does nothing to meaningfully protect our health, our jobs, our labour standards, or our environment.

Given that the US Constitution grants both Congress and the president powers to regulate foreign trade, any attempt to withdraw from the agreement would almost certainly end up in the courts.

Germany viewed the laws of history as favoring national planning to organize the financing of heavy industry, and gave its bankers a voice in formulating international diplomacy, making them «the principal instrument in the extension of her foreign trade and political power.»

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.

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).

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

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.»

It was an attempt to taint rebel groups with Islamic radicalism, thereby giving his violent repression of rebel groups an air of legitimacy and making it more difficult for foreign powers to back his opponents.

The Constitution gives the President unique powers in foreign policy (it is his primary Constitutional portfolio) and the President is responsible for meeting with and negotiating the terms of any treaty the United States wishes to enter into independently (without any Congressional oversight).

Actually there are other kinds of foreign policy risks they may be managing, and that they are given strategic powers to deal with — economic risk, threats to our national economy which in practise may mean something more akin to industrial espionage, as certainly seems to be the case in the USA.

The «royal prerogative», a pre-democratic relic of monarchical rule, gives the Prime Minister, ministers and officials the power to make «foreign policy» and go to war without ever being required to seek parliamentary or popular approval.

«The TPP, if it gets passed, will be known as Congress's Citizens United, because it is giving corporations greater power, foreign corporations, multinational corporations, greater power than citizens,» Ms. Teachout said.

Whatever the end result of the constitutional debate which is now underway, London is not going to be giving up its powers on foreign affairs.

Many of your «non-core laws changes» are related to the Generalitat giving himself powers usually linked to states (like «Ministry of foreign affairs» or «Parliamentary declaration of independence»), making them rather «core laws».

Ahead of the Manchester hustings, Sir Menzies, the party's acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «I want to win power, so that we can give power away.

So I can announce today that we will now legislate to give the police new powers to require foreign nationals to hand over their passports, and make them declare their nationality in court.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN on Monday gave his opinion on how the foreign trips President Muhammadu Buhari has embarked on will benefit Nigeria as a country.

A 2002 court ruling gave the European Commission the power to require countries like Spain to change their national laws concerning the recognition of foreign diplomas; in 2004, Spain received an official warning.

The Supreme Court struck down a law this week that allowed U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to put Israel on their passports — and gave Obama's foreign policy power a boost.

By the 1940s, China had grown tired of giving away valuable artifacts to foreign powers, and the Dunhuang Academy was founded to oversee operations and conduct research and conservation at the site.

These projects could power 1.4 million homes, create thousands of green jobs and give a massive boost to home - grown energy while reducing our reliance on volatile foreign markets.

The Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) gives Congress the power to regulate commerce «with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes».

Specifically, the new rules give Employment and Skills Development Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada considerable powers to delve into a company's temporary foreign worker recruitment and retention process.

Missouri Legislative Year in Review: court / foreign law ban vetoed; giving judiciary power to redraw circuit lines; formula for new judgeships

Singularis v PwC [2014] UKPC 36 (Privy Council on appeal from the Bermuda Court of Appeal) and [2016] UKPC 33 Extent of the common law power of a court to give assistance to the liquidator of a foreign company.

The new law also gives broad powers to the Minister of Public Safety to designate certain arrivals as «Designated Foreign Nationals» - a label that carries mandatory detention, accellerated timelines, restricted access to the refugee system, and draconian conditions on refugees, including a five - year waiting period between a successful claim and an application for permanent residency.

The extent of the common law power of a court to give assistance to the liquidator of a foreign company.

Extent of the common law power of a court to give assistance to the liquidator of a foreign company.

Then, along came s 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, which gave the English court the power to order a Mareva off the back of foreign proceedings, first those in Europe and then in the rest of the world.

The law as it currently stands has weak annual reporting requirements from government agencies, does not provide much protection to Canadians from abusive treatment by foreign states, does not give the Privacy Commissioner order - making power, does not provide redress in cases involving harm, does not prevent over-collection of personal information, does not protect against surveillance where the data is not recorded, and does not feature security breach disclosure requirements.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.

For example, consider if they are: international (importers and exporters with no real business investment outside the country); multination (some investment in other countries, but the products from the home country are typically adapted for the local market); global (invested and present in many countries with the same coordinated image across countries), or transnational (complex organisations that are much more decentralised with power given to each foreign market).

Moreover, many foreign investors have been waiting for the legislation to give a clear idea on the management power holding.