Sentences with phrase «to a foreign power»

A large share of the world's oil reserves is controlled by foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.

In other states which have lost their independence and have fallen under the rule of foreign powers, modifications have of necessity been made.

It can lead to wars, or compromise our relationships with foreign powers.

A constitutional provision bans payments from foreign powers to government leaders to avoid any influence that could be gained from gifts and payments.

It was one thing to trust an American company with our personal information, but quite another to trust a hostile foreign power.

It can not rely on its economy to influence other foreign powers.

Electronic chips made abroad can be altered to allow foreign powers to disrupt critical infrastructure.

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.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war....

Nowadays, taxpayers pay to not only allow the government to protect us from foreign powers who would take what we have, but taxpayers also pay the government to create arm's - length «agencies», giving the ability for some to pick and choose their areas of «concern» of the day, according to political expediency.

Kwame Nkrumah tells us in Africa Must Unite (1963) that «if we do not unite and combine our military resources for common defence, our individual [African] States, out of a sense of insecurity, may be drawn into making defence pacts with foreign powers which may endanger the security of us all».

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

Incident to these powers, and for preventing controversies between foreign powers or citizens from rising to extremities and to an appeal to the sword, a national tribunal was necessary amicably to decide them, and thus ward off such fatal public calamity.

To apologize for Facebook's missteps, reassure Congress that Facebook intends to stop foreign powers from using its service to meddle in American elections and detail the company's plans to better protect its users» privacy.

The Jones Act, a rather complex piece of legislation designed to control the island, prevent foreign powers from gaining a foothold, and keep Puerto Ricans under firm control by limiting their ability to trade independently.

Maduro's government accuses political opponents and business - friendly foreign powers of trying to foment a social uprising against him by stoking inflation and hoarding food.

FARA is one of the only ways the public can see firsthand how foreign powers wield influence in the US; documents filed under the law provide unprecedented insight into foreign lobbying methods.

And if the standard of living drops, people lose jobs, foreign powers pounce, then what?

This being clearly symbolizes Israel and follows the appearance of several beasts, which represent various foreign powers.

In fact, the word most English translations render by «enemy» denotes foreign powers almost exclusively.

Commenting on the Vatican's concordat with Germany, he asserts: «The Vatican became the first foreign power to enter into a bilateral treaty with Hitler.»

The history of the Chinese church during the Ch» ing period shows that the Chinese were always suspicious of religions which were supported by foreign powers within or outside China.

Refusal to give foreign powers unlimited access to sensitive military installations is not limited to autocratic paranoid dictators.

Colonialism was an extreme where foreign powers crudely removed any sense of self - determination from local inhabitants, and did not allow African states any sense of sovereignty.

«The government is now energetically insisting that the Sikh insurrection in the Panjab was a deep - seated conspiracy of a certain foreign power or when pressed, claims that some of the terrorists were trained in Pakistan,» he wrote.

The Middle East has historically been a «penetrated system» in which Arabs have blamed foreign powers for meddling in their internal affairs to benefit external interests.

Stefanik also supports a East Coast Missile Defense Site at Fort Drum, calling it «reckless» to leave the East Coast open to attack as hostile foreign powers advance their military capabilities.

Ironically, that is exactly what the Telegraph has become — a Trojan Horse for the propaganda of autocratic foreign powers.

«As the federal government and foreign powers threaten the sanctity of America's democracy, I am exercising my executive power to expand the availability and opportunity for every New Yorker to register to vote.

The servers for multiplayer are not live at the time of this review, so I've yet to test this mode out, but it's pretty clear how something like this would work, since foreign powers in singleplayer mode work in the same way.

He was gifted a mysterious foreign power by his supposed god.

This country has been overrun by so many foreign powers that we don't have time to be Romantic.»

But foreign powers aside, there remains the overarching issue, surely, of government intrusion, particularly warrantless intrusion.

The Act would apparently be amended to include the phrases: «To imagine, devise, promote, work, or encourage others, to support UK becoming a member of the European Union» and «to conspire with foreign powers to make the UK, or part of the UK, become a member of the EU».

That disappeared with colonization by foreign powers (Birch, Eakin & McDaniel 1990).

If you look at China and India and other developing countries, we need to ensure that we're tackling this not as the Unites States going it alone, but also with other foreign powers to ensure that we tackle this issue.

Thirty years ago, the authors of A Nation at Risk told us: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

«Hidden «backdoors» to our networks in routers, switches, and other network equipment can allow hostile foreign powers to inject viruses and other malware, steal Americans» private data, spy on U.S. businesses, and more,» said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who introduced the proposal.

Three foreign powers who have shaped Syria's civil war will discuss ways to wind down the fighting on Wednesday despite their involvement in rival military campaigns on the ground.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

It's generally considered unethical for foreign powers to interfere at all in elections, but to suppose that neither the Russian nor the US government has ever sought to affect the results of a foreign election would be naive.

According to the court, «in approving minimization procedures the Court is to ensure that the intrusiveness of foreign intelligence surveillances and searches on the privacy of U.S. persons is «consistent» with the need of the United States to collect foreign intelligence information from foreign powers and their agents.»

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

To apologize for Facebook's missteps, reassure Congress that Facebook intends to stop foreign powers from using its service to meddle in American elections and detail the company's plans to better protect its users» privacy.

This provision was to prevent foreign powers from bribing government officials with gifts or emoluments.

Selling Canadians on opening their borders to foreign powers and a temperate position on energy development will take rhetorical nuance.

«Estonia's system places extreme trust in election servers and voters» computers — all easy targets for a foreign power,» they said.

«If you are in a position of public trust, and you talk to, meet, or collude with a foreign power» while trying to subvert normal state channels, «you are, in the eyes of the FBI and CIA, a traitor,» said Glenn Carle, a former top counterterrorism official at the CIA.

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.