Sentences with phrase «of foreign leaders»

After Libya's Gaddafi and Nigeria's James Ibori, there are lots of examples of the foreign leaders and their offspring stashing suspect money in the UK to escape justice at home,» said Chido Dunn of Global Witness.

Although these also include first names of foreign leaders, parents will no longer be able to name their baby girls Linda, Sandy, Elaine or Lauren.

The Islamic Republic's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance not only bans all foreign names and names of leaders of other countries to be given to children, but also bans the mention of foreign leaders in national newspapers.

From rules banning names of foreign leaders to those banning names of fruits... unusual monickers are generally banned to protect the child, and in some cases, not to highlight the name of a foreign enemy.

RE: Obama Foreign Policy - How can someone incapable of domestic planning anticipate the actions of foreign leaders?

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

If America is to have a stable foreign policy, that policy will start not with looking at the map, but with understanding values (both those of foreign leaders and those of the American people) as they are, and not as we might like them to be.

** BOAO, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping and a list of foreign leaders, including Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, United Nations Secretary - General Antonio Guterres and IMF's managing director Christine Lagarde are to speak at the opening of the annual Boao Forum in Hainan province - 0130 GMT.

In one of the film's best scenes, Hunt tracks the Syndicate to an opera house to prevent the assassination of a foreign leader.

Expect to hear the phrases «food sovereignty» and «food security» on the lips of every foreign leader you meet.

Not exact matches

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

TORONTO, April 23 - The leaders of Germany and France will urge U.S. Maas, speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations, also said the G7 would formally call on Russia to contribute to solving the crisis in Syria.

In part, those expectations were stoked by photos of Western influences seeping into the regime: Jong - un has done photo ops at water parks and taken roller - coaster rides with foreign diplomats, Disney characters have performed for the new leader on state TV, and Jong - un's wife has sported a Dior handbag, to name a few examples.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Canada's leader disclosed that while he disagrees with Trump on subjects like the environment and foreign policy, he also does not plan to «go out of [his] way» to prove him wrong.

• The NSA monitored the phone calls of 35 world leaders and encouraged other government agencies to share their «Rolodexes» of foreign politicians so it could monitor them.

Though the behavior of «playful Sue» may sound outlandish to some women, there are no shortage of high - powered and deeply serious professional women that admit to using their feminine charms to get what they want, including Clinton - era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who has admitted to flirting with male foreign leaders on the job.

A former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, the 64 - year - old has no previous experience as a diplomat but nonetheless has had deep exposure to dealing with foreign leaders in countries with interests opposed to or in competition with those of the United States.

[Former Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev still had to deal with the Politburo during the most dangerous moment of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis,» he told an audience of Ukrainian MPs, foreign diplomats, and journalists.

In contrast, the first visit by a foreign leader at his Mar - a-Lago estate was a friendly weekend of meetings, dinners and golf that suggested the new president was willing to invest time in developing close personal relationships with leaders he feels he can work with.

It is almost unheard of for foreign leaders to visit China twice in such close succession.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

Canadian chief executives and corporate leaders are concerned about the possible sale of Potash Corp. to a foreign buyer, and they want the federal government to take action to stop the sale.

PARIS, May 2 - France's L'Oreal on Wednesday said it had agreed to buy South Korean make - up and fashion firm Nanda, as foreign cosmetic industry leaders jostle for a slice of one of the world's most innovative beauty markets.

Brazil needs a new leader who can rebuild the government's trust with the people of Brazil and foreign investors alike.

Richard Haass, Council of Foreign Relations president, provides perspective on the agreement reached between North Korea and South Korea leaders.

The White House credited its policy of putting international economic, diplomatic, and military pressure on Pyongyang as having made Kim more willing to meet with foreign leaders.

The global reaction was swift and fierce, with condemnation coming from European and other foreign leaders, members of Congress and even captains of U.S. industry.

Beer - maker Anheuser - Busch InBev (BUD) is hedging its bets for the future by recruiting promising leaders straight out of college, including foreign nationals while they are living outside their home countries.

It's a major factor behind China's biggest - ever foreign corporate acquisition: ChemChina's planned takeover, for $ 43 billion in cash, of Syngenta (syt), the Swiss - based world leader in advanced insecticides, herbicides, and other crop - protection products and the No. 3 producer of seeds.

Market leaders such as LeTV have to suspend the sale of their set - top boxes and their foreign - content programming immediately.

Evolution AI ranked some of the most abused politicians on Twitter and found that energy minister Claire Perry, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn all ranked highly — though none received as much abuse as Naz Shah.

The contributions of foreign - born business leaders to the American economy are difficult to miss.

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

Overseas, Lee was largely seen as a statesman — foreign political and business leaders have long praised him: «legendary» (Barack Obama); «brilliant» (Rupert Murdoch); «never wrong» (Margaret Thatcher), to cite a few of countless such tributes.

Ri Yong Ho, the foreign minister of the isolated nation, reportedly told journalists that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is considering such a test blast.

Leaders are seeking new partnerships in mining and agriculture, and further diversification of the economy with the help of foreign investment.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

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Established in 1973, when foreign governments hailed Canada as a world leader in freshwater science and protection, the library housed tens of thousands of reports, maps, charts and books, including material dating back to the 1880s.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking with world leaders including UN Secretary General Ban - ki Moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs John Kerry and asserting Israel's right to defend itself against incessant rocket attacks and terrorist infiltrations which no country can be expected to suffer without responding.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

It is not up to foreign governments to control how their citizens invest; rather, it is the responsibility of Canadian leaders.

The North Korean leader told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that «realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula is North Korea's firm stance.»

Russian leaders did not realize that dollars or other foreign currencies were only needed to finance balance - of - payments deficits, not domestic spending except as this money was spent on imports.

In fact, almost no one important was warned of Trump's monumental decision before it was made, and the White House did virtually nothing to prepare for the all - too - predictable angry response from foreign leaders:

The astonishing ability of the China bulls, both foreign and Chinese, to celebrate every unexpected decline in growth and every new surge in debt as if they somehow justified nearly a decade's worth of denials of the urgency of China's rebalancing has done so much damage to China that the sooner Beijing's leaders finally turn against the bulls, as I believe they might finally have done, the better for the Chinese people and the Chinese economy.

When it comes to President Donald Trump's constellation of foreign investments, properties, and companies, much of the attention so far has been on his business's apparent violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bars officeholders from taking gifts from foreign leaders.

The initiative is the most ambitious foreign policy that any contemporary Chinese leader has ever introduced, framed on the basis of mutual benefits and facilitates connectivity of policy, trade, financial, infrastructure, and people - to - people between the countries involved.

In March, Kim met with Moon's special envoys in Pyongyang and held a surprise summit with Xi in Beijing later in the month during his first foreign trip since becoming North Korea's leader following the death of his father Kim Jong Il in 2011.

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