Sentences with phrase «owned by national governments»

However, the majority of community forests in Latin America, Africa and Asia are not legally recognized as such and are often owned by national governments.

A U.S. court would allow a lawsuit to go forward in its courts if one of two main exceptions apply (there are other exceptions which are controversial and much less common and inapplicable on the facts of this question): (1) there is a breach of contract duly authorized by the national government, or (2) the liability arises from the non-governmental «commercial activities» of a governmental entity owned by the national government but not truly a part of it.

Not exact matches

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

This could mean companies that would traditionally fall outside the guidelines — like Vale SA, which is publicly traded but partly owned by the Brazilian government, or China's Huawai, which is privately owned but closely associated with its national government — would suddenly be branded as SOEs.

«The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates U.S. national security.»

On March 7, after being fired as National Security Adviser, Flynn belatedly filed a FARA disclosure that revealed that, through his firm, Flynn Intel Group, he had worked in 2016 on behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish government.

Foreign private businesses, not just state - owned enterprises, can be manipulated by their home governments to advance foreign policy or national security aims.»

The ECB makes governments unable to finance their spending by central banks of their own Introduction of the euro in 1999 explicitly prevented the ECB or any national central bank from financing government deficits.

NWBOC was the first organization to create a national certification program for women - owned businesses in 1995, but since then, it has become so much more by providing members with the procurement resources necessary for securing large government and corporate contacts.

The rest of the $ 21 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself.

It may do so either by its own prosecutions or by stimulating prosecutions in national courts, brought by governments reluctant to see their officials and soldiers hauled off to The Hague for trial.

Moreover, it rings true to the entrepreneurial experience of many fundamentalist ministers, whose independent churches succeed by dint of their own labor, God's grace and the direct contributions of those in the pews or in front of the television set, unsupported by national denominations analogous to big government.

The India Food Park, located 100 km from Bangalore on the NH4 (National Highway) connecting Chennai and Mumbai, is spread across 110 acres of land allotted by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB), a wholly - owned infrastructure agency of the government of Karnataka.

Although there are national organic and biodynamic standards set by the Australian Government, as an organic certifier Australian Certified Organic is required to have its own standard.

I know I'm ranting on my own here, but it is deeply depressing that football is being degraded by actions ranging from players diving (cheating) right up to national governments using their wealth to effect outcomes — what hope is there for the game?

«It is nothing short of a national scandal that those who are dedicating themselves to giving a future to children and young people are seeing their own lives damaged by the failure of government and employers to take their health and welfare seriously.

• Tax Incentives for Young Entrepreneurs: As a further commitment to creating a supportive ecosystem for young Ghanaian entrepreneurs of age 35 years and below who start their own businesses, government will, through the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), grant tax holidays based on the number of persons employed by a start - up or early - stage business.

The big question is why Chinese nationals choose to leave the huge mineral deposits in their own country to be aided by own government to plunder and degrade our natural resources.

The speculative profits arising from owning desirable land could be taxed or captured by local or national governments — or perhaps communities — by virtue of being the owners of the land themselves.

• The transformation of RTVE, the national television and radio broadcaster owning several popular and influent channels, giving it more independence from the government — a policy which has been reversed by the Partido Popular, now in power.

What is on ground right now is an attempt by certain individuals to use the image of the National leader of the party to entrench their own personal interest by promoting impositions of candidates from various local government, wards during the last elections.

Aran constitutes in Catalonia a national reality with its own personality and differentiated, based in the fact that the Aranese community has a common, shared and common language and culture with the rest of Occitania, and, at the same time, an ancient tradition of self - government firmly defended by the Aranese over time.

In Ghana, the government of the day work and do things on their own in consultation with their political ideologies and manifestos that do not take into consideration any national plan but here we are, the new government takes over and meet a commission mandated to ensure planning of the nation in the next 40 - years which was constituted by its predecessor.

I was one of eight journalists and four university lecturers who had spoken out in favour of democracy on the regular Sunday programme of news analysis broadcast by Cameroon Radio and TV Corporation, the government - owned national station.

With the federal government in no position at the moment to invest heavily in the National Broadband Plan introduced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year, more than 30 universities and counting have taken the matter into their own hands, forming the University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, more commonly referred to as Gig.U.

In 1991, English Nature, the government's main conservation agency, began a small but potentially important experiment in «managed retreat» of the coastline at Northey Island, a small patch of salt marsh and grazing pasture owned by the National Trust in Essex's Blackwater estuary.

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The federal government, which is administered by several agencies that include the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the U.S. National Park Service, the Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and in some cases the Utah State Department of State Parks, owns approximately 64 percent of the state of Utah The Bureau of Land Management manages approximately 36 percent of the land, making it the largest single landowner in the state.

Let me begin it by suggesting that we sell all of our national parks (and other land owned by the US Government) to the Saudis in exchange for forgiveness of our debts.

Government bonds are similar to corporate bonds with the exception that they are issued by a national government, and in the country's ownGovernment bonds are similar to corporate bonds with the exception that they are issued by a national government, and in the country's owngovernment, and in the country's own currency.

Although sovereign debt will always involve default risk, lending money to a national government in the country's own currency is referred to as a risk - free investment because with limits, the debt can be repaid by the borrowing government by raising their taxes, reducing spending, or simply printing more money.

The National Register of Historic Places listed Burro Flats Painted Cave is located within the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, on a portion of the site owned by the U.S. Government.

San Clemente, San Nicolas and San Miguel are owned by the U.S. Government, although San Miguel is managed by Channel Islands National Park.

The park is owned jointly by the Cayman Islands Government and the National Trust for the Cayman Islands.

Artist Rooms is owned jointly by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d'Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.

Jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, the collection was established through The d'Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, and the Scottish and British Governments.

Jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, ARTIST ROOMS was established through The d'Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, and the Scottish and British Governments.

The ARTIST ROOMS collection is owned jointly by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d'Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.

ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d?Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, and the Scottish and British Governments.

The ARTIST ROOMS collection is jointly owned by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate on behalf of the public, and was established through The d'Offay donation in 2008 with the assistance of the Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and the Scottish and British governments.

But thus far, it hasn't, aided in part by the obfuscations of the United Nations (through the IPCC reports) and our own federal government (via reports such as the National Assessment of Climate Change).

The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education.

But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and being highlighted by New Scientist, contends that at least in the case of tropical forests, those owned by local communities have been protected far better than those managed by government: The study, claimed to be the first of its kind, was done by Ashwini Chhatre and Arun Agrawal from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and examined what's happened to 80 forests in 10 countries worldwide over the past 15 years — only 10 % of which were owned by forest communities themselves.

The letter to Congress is signed by public and private organizations from every state, including community development organizations; nonprofit service providers; banks and credit unions; state and national trade associations and chambers of commerce, including the American Bankers Association and other groups representing thousands of members; affordable housing organizations; schools, universities and education nonprofits; city governments, state and local elected officials and agencies; and many other businesses, ranging from very large businesses to small, family - owned businesses.

Jennifer Kennedy, a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, explains that things tightened up in 2012 following the government's approval of two foreign bids: the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation's $ 15.1 - billion acquisition of Nexen Inc. and the $ 5.2 - billion acquisition of Progress Energy by Malaysian - owned Petronas.

The Canadian cloud has been seen as one of the most attractive data destinations: national privacy policies and provincial rules and regulations in this country provide good protections for an individual's personal information, as well as important data held or used by public institutions such as schools, universities, hospitals, government - owned utilities and government - operated service providers.

Even worse, some governments occasionally knowingly use the Community level to pass legislation which would never be accepted by their own national parliaments.

Led by co-founders and senior partners Mary Quinn Cooper and William S. Leach, ECSL specializes in commercial litigation, products liability, class actions and complex civil litigation on a regional and national level for clients ranging from small privately owned companies and government entities to Fortune 100 companies.

It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions of quarrels between States on account of the claims of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every of them to obtain justice without any danger of being overborne by the weight and number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.

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.»