Sentences with phrase «used as a haven»

For years, the breakaway Turkish part of the island has been used as a haven by UK runaways, safe in the knowledge they can not be extradited.

Cash value life insurance is a good investment because it can be used as a haven for your money as you consider other ways to use your cash value to increase your means.

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Last year there was a string of serial rapes and we are speaking with some of the local advocacy groups and developing a plan to keep the space open and staffed Friday and Saturday nights until an hour after the bars close so that if there is anyone feeling uncomfortable or threatened by a situation can come and use the space as a safe haven and have the option of being walked home at the end of the evening.

«Being viewed as not paying a fair share of tax or using questionable tax havens will be unacceptable.»

I can understand the benefits of having a safe haven currency like the traditional Swiss Franc which is divisible and liquid, however claims of Gold being illiqiud and something clumsy that can not be used as currency are false.

People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.

Can investors / speculators use gold as a hedge for equities or as a general safe haven?

It is used as a hedge against inflation; safe - haven asset in times of wars and political uncertainty; alternate asset class to equities and fixed - income instruments; near - cash; and metal of choice in a number of industries.

«A rush for safe - haven bonds around the world has sent the yields on sovereign bonds through the floor — meaning a fall in the regular income that pension funds use to pay their retirees their defined benefits, sometimes known as final salary pensions.

A massive document leak known as the «Paradise Papers» exposed how corporations, political figures and wealthy individuals have been using offshore tax havens to avoid paying taxes.

In his February 2015 paper entitled «The Search for Crisis Alpha: Weathering the Storm Using Relative Momentum», Nathan Faber tests a dual momentum safe haven based on U.S. Treasuries of different durations as proxied by either constant maturity indexes or exchange - traded funds (ETFs).

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

In the 1940s, he introduced the Red Haven variety of peach to the region, and also introduced the use of grass cover and poplar trees as windbreaks in orchards.

The gymnasium of PS 41, an elementary school in Greenwich Village and a pickup basketball haven for bankers and bohemians, was used as a base camp for rescue workers, the parquet floor covered by 66 sleeping bags and cots.

I am seriousely surprised at the disparity in players salary as those according to my rating that are the best and frequently used make very small amount at Arsenal.I think this is unfair and more clarity should be given as to how these figure are arrived at.I can't immagine a player who haven started a single game been paid morethan someone that has proven himself.This is why, when these players are contacted to, it becomes very easy.

The politically sensitive issue affects all the children in the city of 2,300 who use the city's youth house, 17 W 261 Butterfield Rd., for social events on weeknights and as a haven for latchkey children after school.

Now, imagine places that use sparsely inhabited land as havens for offering to build robot factories, the way some islands are tax havens.

The web is a natural haven for the out - of - power — part of its brilliance is that it can make mighty the small and small the mighty — and just as Democrats and progressives began working online in earnest after they lost Congress and the White House, Republicans will naturally use new media to create channels for organizing and message - distribution now that they've been pushed out of institutional authority.

Secrecy jurisdictions (aka tax havens) may be characterised as jurisdictions that design regulations for use by people who do not reside within the jurisdiction in the full knowledge that these regulations undermine the capacity of other political authorities to regulate the conduct of their citizenry and support this process through the construction of a veil of secrecy.

His guarantee that a future Labour government would repeal the anti-trade union legislation, clamp down on tax evasion and stop British dependencies being used as tax havens would improve the living standards of millions.

One warned that Northern Ireland was being used by major political donors as an «offshore secrecy haven».

Much of New Haven's groundwater has already risen by as much as 4 feet over the past 100 years, partially because the waters are no longer being used for industrial purposes as they were in the early 1900s.

Due to its antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and astringent properties, pomegranate haven been traditionally used for alleviating diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, upset stomach, and hemorrhoids, as well as for eliminating intestinal parasites.

However, as an herbal community we can create a special category, a Safe Haven, for «Herbally Owned» legacy products; popular herbal products that have been made, used, and sold for decades.

Research has continued to be one of her passions, as she has studied ethnobotanical medicine and edible plants used in the Mediterranean diet for Diabetes through a doctoral program at The University of Lancaster in the UK and did a clinical study on the traditional Mediterranean diet at her practice in New Haven, CT..

i trained mma for six years just slowed down not at my home gym sorta hard to stay stoked when youve done th hardest stuff ever sleds battle ropes wrestling whats best thing to do just in the time im taken a breather then get back to jujitsu class n get back to intense training lik ei find bymself im not as into intense training i like to do scientific training strengthen my back with light excersize but is there any tips i can have like i do nt really like weights i love sleds, jump squats but then the none schedule theres no time i got used to always haven a class to go to no its all up to me so its hard to stay disciplined training yoursefl

I was extremely exicted to use my new wax brush since I had received that as a free gift from the Haven Conference from Amy Howard paint company.

I work full time and I guess I have been using my work as my haven.

But from toddlers to teenagers, it's not acceptable for them to see their safe haven used as a hotel for strangers.

As fewer and fewer of my friends use the platform, Snapchat has become a haven from the grinding utility of the internet

Mullick and Tariq use a wide range of cinematic techniques to convey the tenuous environment in which their subjects find themselves: the uneasy sense of oasis the runaways feel at one of the Edhi Foundation's clinics and those occasional moments where youths such as Omar lash out, puncturing the establishment's haven - like feeling.

The film focuses on a specific point in Kelly's career, «Grace Kelly, age 33 and having given up her acting career to focus on being a full time princess, uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French Leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco's Prince Rainier III are at odds over the principality's standing as a tax haven.»

We open centers around the city to serve as safe havens for students using mostly non-union staff, community - based organizations, city parks and libraries.

But beyond offering a safe haven, research and evaluation studies have demonstrated that the programs can have a positive effect on a range of prevention outcomes, such as avoidance of drug and alcohol use, decreases in delinquency and violent behavior, increased knowledge of safe sex, avoidance of sexual activity, and reduction in juvenile crime.

Students increasingly compose within social media environments and teachers should capitalize on this affinity, as did Dr. Reynol Junco at Lock Haven University, in a study where his students used Twitter and other social media tools to increase their overall grade point averages (see video).

New Haven introduced the use of outside observers — called «third - party validators» there — in 2010 as part of a new teachers» contract.

As reported in a New Haven Register article entitled, Connecticut education activists continue push to address «failing» schools,» the group will be using their resources to push for more charter schools.

Charter School chain is using a completely different approach as it seeks to pull off a deal in New Haven that would shift existing funds away from New Haven's public schools and into the coffers of the Achievement First operation.

All Enterprise Car Sales used vehicles have been checked by an ASE - Certified technician and have passed our detailed inspection to be offered for sale as a certified used car near West Haven.

That's where she got the idea to use the facility as a place for kids to go... Continue reading Ferguson's Safe Haven →

OTTAWA — Canadian tax authorities are on track to recover at least an additional $ 400 million this year as part of a campaign to crack down on tax evasion by big international companies and wealthy individuals, particularly those using offshore tax havens, a top official says.

Securities firms, commercial banks, corporations, pension funds, state and local governments, and mutual and money market funds use the repo market as a safe haven for cash investment and as a flexible alternative to bank deposits and money market instruments such as CDs and commercial paper.

Many traders use Gold futures as a safe - haven contract during times of economic uncertainty.

On the macroscale, the governments use silver as a safe haven currency, meaning that they invest in it and reap the interest from it.

However, a piece of property in your chosen retirement haven can double as an investment, generating cash flow from rental income when you're not using the place yourself and allowing you to...

However, a piece of property in your chosen retirement haven can double as an investment, generating cash flow from rental income when you're not using the place yourself and allowing you to build equity to bolster your retirement nest egg.

Investments in Gold are used as a hedge against inflation and currency devaluation, and as a safe haven against any economic crises.

Investors used these convertible arbitrage hedge fund strategies as a source of absolute returns, a safe haven especially in a severe bear market, and got an absolute horror show.

The major projects that Ward - Wiseman Animal Haven is currently involved with include a cooperative effort again with the City of Collinsville and Mayor Stan Sallee to build an Animal Control Officer (ACO) City Building with 11 kennels to replace the cinderblock building currently in use as an isolation unit, and offices for the City ACO.

When used correctly, a crate can become your dog's favorite sleeping place and he will come to view it as a sort of safe haven.