Sentences with phrase «international force of»

About the Institute of Real Estate Management IREM is an international force of 20,000 individuals united to advance the profession of real estate management.

After that, it is to be hoped that the Malian army can restore order, but it seems more likely that an international force of some kind may be needed to keep the peace.

She lives in Staunton, Virginia with her husband the nearly famous writer and their two sons, the international forces of nature.

Not exact matches

In 2009, he took command of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan.

International routes were one of the last places where passengers weren't forced to pay for checked luggage.

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratforced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratForced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

Philip Morris International has tried to force the University of Stirling to hand over secret data into teenage smoking and cigarette packaging gathered over more than a decade.

The International Criminal Court has said US forces may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan through the «cruel or violent» interrogation of detainees, mostly from 2003 to 2004.

In honor of International Women's Day, to encourage women across all fields to pursue their goals, CEO, designer and philanthropist Tory Burch has joined forces with big names such as Sheryl Sandberg, Anna Wintour, Laila Ali and Reese Witherspoon.

Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.

«Free - trade agreements have become a scapegoat for a lot of other forces changing the economy,» says Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The group will eventually turn the document over to the international keeper of such Internet standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

«While our competitors have dozens of plans that confuse and force consumers to pay more, T - Mobile has one plan with two optional, straight - forward add - ons: Plus & Plus International, which we've made even better for customers without increasing the price,» senior vice president Janice Kapner said in a statement to Fortune.

Now, particularly because of the rise of Microsoft, Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Nordstrom — not to mention the profusion of Microsoft wanna - bes and spin - offs that have recently littered the Northwest landscape — Seattle is an international economic force to be reckoned with.

Now, thanks in part to Kuwabara's leadership, KPMB has grown into a global force, winning major international bids and becoming a leading exporter of a particularly Canadian brand of design thinking.

But extending such power - sharing solutions to the Sunni Arab areas of Iraq, and eventually to ethnic and religious groups in Syria, will require internal cultural change, international guarantees, and an outside monitoring force.

In 2012, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was suspended from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for electing leaders with pending criminal charges, forcing Indian athletes to compete at the Sochi Winter Games under the IOC flag instead of the Indian banner.

The winter storm that plagued the East Coast forced the world's largest passenger jet — an Airbus A380 — to divert to Stewart International, a small New York airport about 80 miles north of its intended destination: John F. Kennedy International Airport.

To understand why leaders put on these superficial shields and how to breakthrough them, I recently sat down with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan and of the Joint Special Operations Command.

And the credibility behind that power will need to be demonstrated by limited American forces remaining in Iraq and potentially in or around Syria, all of them authorized to defend the international guarantees and decentralized order.

The country's currency slid below 70 U.S. cents last week, causing some to recall early 2002, when Canadian officials were forced to beg international investors to recognize that the inherent value of Canada's currency was greater than 63 US cents, the record low to which it had fallen at the time.

Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the US — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of unions (union density remains high).

Indeed, in a classic paper written in the early 1960s, Mundell (Mundell, 1963) showed how, in a world of complete asset substitutability and perfect capital mobility, real interest rates would be largely determined by international market forces with the exchange rate moving in response to changes in domestic monetary policy to provide most of the desired accommodation or tightening.

International Korean leaders agree to «complete denuclearization» goal, The Guardian UN human rights chief decries Israel's excessive use of force in Gaza, Reuters

According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific region.

Keeping far ahead of the pack when it comes to real estate markets, Margaret and her business partner, Ronan McMahon, have been the guiding force that led International Living readers to the explosive opportunities of recent years in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, and of course, Panama.

David Detomasi, a professor of international business at Queen's University, said the two deals forced Ottawa to clarify the Investment Canada Act's «net benefit» test, which was used to quash the takeover of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan two years ago.

Instead, the Committee has been forced to use the economic forecasts from the Bank of Canada, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the backdrop for its reports.

It may be inevitable that impersonal forces of technology and changing global economic circumstances have profound effects, but it adds insult to injury when governments reach agreements that further cede control to international tribunals.

The second stage of the project has focused on sharing these experiences — both amongst the various groups involved and to other groups currently facing forced evictions — through an international exchange event held in Istanbul, one of the participating cities, in February 2010.

Nonetheless, I applaud Saudi Arabia's action under its ambitious Crown Prince Mohammed's bin Salman — which I think is bold and helped force both the international and Arab communities to reckon with the thorny future of robot rights.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

Also, I've mentioned previously that the long end of the yield curve today is probably being influenced by international forces, as rates are lower overseas.

The Great White North Franchisee Association's U.S. branch, a group claiming to represent at least half of Tim Hortons» owners south of the border, said Thursday that it is suing Restaurant Brands International, which has headquarters in Oakville, Ont., over a contract clause forcing all disputes to be handled in a Miami court.

A proud dual U.S. / Israel citizen, he has served as a volunteer in the Israel Defense Forces» Home Front Command, a specialized division of the Israeli Army dedicated to domestic and international search and rescue.

With Hong Kong being an international financial centre, the fintech community definitely has the advantage of being able to join forces with like - minded talents and leverage the wealth of financial knowledge here.

Attempts to export its excess savings can only lead to one of three outcomes: A) global growth rises because Europe's savings are all directed at developing countries with significant infrastructure investment needs and insufficient capital, B) global growth drops sharply, global unemployment rises, and China's adjustment becomes all but impossible, C) international trade and capital flows collapse in a repeat of the 1930s, so that Europe is forced to resolve its savings imbalance either by a massive increase in unemployment or a wave of sovereign defaults.

As the value of the Icelandic krona plummeted, Iceland was forced to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund and European allies.

The Canadian Association of International Development Professionals has been trying to talk to government for some years about the importance of the trade in services (like those of our members) in building relationships and Canadian exports and developing high value added jobs for Canada's well educated and multi-ethnic work force.

The steady lowering of international trade barriers over the past half century has been a driving force behind job creation and poverty reduction in countries around the world.

The Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, recently announced the appointment of experts in responsible investment, sustainable finance, risk management and climate change to head its new task force on climate - change - related disclosures.

Another part of the story is likely to be that with a stronger world economy, some of the international forces pushing prices down are now starting to weaken.

World events: Economies become volatile when regimes change, fuel prices go way up or down, and when the United States» trade is impacted by any number of domestic and international forces.

While organisations such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors take the lead in setting global standards, we contribute to global regulatory initiatives by participating in their task forces and committees to work on implementing financial regulatory reforms, enhancing standards and facilitating market development.

In just over three years, OurCrowd has established itself as a major international force in the equity crowdfunding industry, investing over US$ 320 million from its «crowd» of 16,000 accredited investors in its portfolio of 100 companies and five funds, which span major investment sectors including Mobility and Transportation, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Agtech, Big Data, and Robotics.

There certainly were international forces at work, but the key one was the expansionary effect of the rise in the terms of trade.

Rao, also a fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, spoke of India's current economic growth and the geo - political forces that make India an influential global «swing power.»

As more free trade agreements are reached and come into force, such as the recent ratification of CETA, opportunities are opening up for companies of all sizes to do business in new international markets.

Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership can't come into force without the support of the United States, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said the day after Donald Trump promised to withdraw the U.S. from the 12 - country trade pact on his first day in office.