Sentences with phrase «sovereign nation status»

Reservations exist in a weird quasi sovereign nation status.

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In the case of Botox maker Allergan and its blockbuster dry - eye drug Restasis, the surprising answer is transfer the patents to the Saint Regis Mohawk tribe to take advantage of its sovereign Indian Nation status and ward off intellectual property challenges.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

We are a separate corporate entity established with an appropriate level of separation from the Nation government, but we offer partners an array of tax efficiencies and other benefits based on the Nation's sovereign status, including federal tax immunity, state income tax exemption, federal capital gains tax exemption, state sales tax exemption and preferential debt financing and government contracting preferences, among others.

To that end we actively identify, invest in and / or partner with new and existing business opportunities that capitalize on the Seneca Nation's substantial advantages inherent in its status as sovereign nNation's substantial advantages inherent in its status as sovereign nationnation.

More specifically, the sovereign status of the Seneca Nation Territories prevents financial lenders from being able to place a lien on or repossessing Seneca Property.

He travels the world getting countries to sign a charter giving up their status as sovereign nations and agreeing to recognize him as their king.

Protocol usually follows political status, but is this a case when protocol might lead to a more firmly grounded recognition of the First Nations as sovereign nNations as sovereign nationsnations?