Sentences with phrase «worked as border»

The firm has earned or applied for fees of $ 7.29 million for work as Border's debtor's counsel from February 2011 to January 2012, according to a brief filed last month in bankruptcy court.

Not exact matches

Stoyanova helps cultivate the largest creative community on the planet, produces her podcast The Work We Do, hosts impromptu poetry jams, and bridges industries and borders as an agent of change.

The system worked, and the banks were able to settle transactions between their 11 banks simultaneously as opposed to taking days or even weeks for cross border transactions.

It was wonderful to be his lawyer,» said Lesperance, a former Canadian border officer who has worked as an immigration lawyer for more than 25 years.

Canadian truck drivers crossing over into the U.S. might have to put up with longer lines, as U.S. border agents might work overtime, even though they are exempt from furloughs.

Even if this mythical product was expensive, I would buy it as an investment to save me from the coffee shop franchises bordering my walk to work.

Toronto - based Barrick also said it has suspended work on a prefeasibility study on its massive Pascua - Lama gold and silver project on the border of Chile and Argentina as the venture does not meet its investment criteria.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

Voltron, er, Hive will be increasingly important as BuzzFeed expands globally, to identify what works across borders.

Trade under CAFTA - DR supports Made - in - America jobs and unlocks opportunities for well - paying work as goods flow across borders and are manufactured into final products.

As well, they agreed to form a working group to explore the joint development of the trouble - plagued Pascua - Lama deposit in Chile and will «evaluate additional investment opportunities» near the border of Argentina and Chile.

I'm hoping that as we get into NAFTA, and so on, business is speaking on both sides of the border and helping everybody understand how these things work and how they would affect everybody.

In the new corporate income tax envisaged in the GOP reform blueprint, the border adjustment would work as follows:

Even as he led a party that had been in power for almost 40 years, his campaign tipped their hat to an energetic campaign south of the border by using the slogan «Change that works for Albertans.»

Close to 75 % of our population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border, and internationally we are seen as North Americans — but not Americans, a subtle difference that often works in our favour.

I called everyone I could think of to get their opinion on the tariff changes, including a former student of mine who worked at the Canada Border Services Agency, as well as contacts at Apple, Canada Post and UPS.

He is also a Partner at HPM Partners where, with his 32 partners and 50 associates in six offices, he works with owners of businesses on their growth strategies, M&A, financing, liquidity, wealth management, cross - border / multi-national issues, estate planning and tax strategies; and for his multi-generational and family clients, he brings several lifetimes of dealing with family dynamics, trusts, business - ownership, family charters and youth education as a member of two large, historic business families.

It can serve a vehicle for love, a part of what R.R. Reno productively calls «A fully orbed life of virtue» as we encounter the stranger on the road to Jericho or within the boundaries of our community, and it often transcends borders as it commits to working within their context.

«This has resulted in key duties not being carried out, resources not properly allocated, organisations not working together as they should and focus being placed on narrow border control issues, specific to each agency and not the overall border security picture of the UK.»

In contrast non-EU immigration can be steered and controlled by selectively granting or denying Visas (I don't know how this works in reality, but that is an actual argument being made in favour of Brexit, mostly expressed as «taking back control of our borders»).

By working in close liaison with the UK Border Agency (UKBA), JobCentres, social services and local authorities, welfare advisors serve as powerful advocates for torture survivors.

Immigration and asylum reporting centres were closed, hundreds of asylum interviews cancelled and juxtaposed immigration controls at Calais non-operational today, as up to 10,500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency, went on strike today.

Thus, for example, a group of scholars and activists working on borders recently occupied the discursive terrain by introducing new keywords in migration and borders, such as «militant investigation», «counter-mapping» and «bordering» among others (Casas Cortes et al. 2014).

The first plays to the Republican's experience as a former federal prosecutor, as Katko dealt with border issues while working in El Paso.

Controls on immigration would include more border police and withholding in - work and out - of - work benefits from migrants for two years, until they have paid into the system, as well as ensuring that employers can not undercut wages and working conditions.

Rather than trying to work for a greater good, he said, many people focused on where the line is between legal and illegal, and then steered as close as possible to that border without crossing over.

They have been instrumental in the union's campaign against cuts to front line UK Border Agency staff in Kent, as well as a campaign against a cut in agreed allowances for UKBA staff working on immigration controls in northern France.

As a farming community which engages in cocoa and crop farming and also share borders with la Cote d'Ivoire, the first lady called on the people of Bia West to join forces with government to work together to ensure that farms are not worked by any labour that is believed to be trafficked or involving child labour.

Prevention involved the work of the armed forces abroad as well as that of community workers combating radicalisation at home, he said, while protection involved border security and the proper monitoring of major utilities and transport systems.

As one 78 - year - old who works by the border told the Guardian: «We definitely don't want a hard border here as we had one before, but if we do get one, there's going to be hassle and I'd say trouble as well.&raquAs one 78 - year - old who works by the border told the Guardian: «We definitely don't want a hard border here as we had one before, but if we do get one, there's going to be hassle and I'd say trouble as well.&raquas we had one before, but if we do get one, there's going to be hassle and I'd say trouble as well.&raquas well.»

As I speak, Britain's Royal Navy, National Crime Agency and Border Force are working alongside their Italian partners to save lives in the Mediterranean and crack down on the evil traffickers who are exploiting desperate men, women and children who seek a better life.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

Aside from the economic problems, it would cause (many people cross the border every day for work, not to mention goods and services), the border posts were often the targets of violence and terrorism and seen as divisive.

The Trump administration signaled on Sunday the president would continue with legal protections for so - called dreamers in the United States that allow them to work here in exchange for building a wall on the Mexican border and tightening immigration policies, such as visa applications for family members.

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

«Today, the President called on Congress to take action and I am hopeful that as legislators, we can ake this opportunity to work in a bipartisan manner to enact a permanent solution on behalf of individuals brought to the U.S. illegally as children, while also enacting long - term reforms to both fix our broken immigration system and to secure our nation's borders,» Katko said.

It is evident to anyone attending meetings such as those at BIRS that the problems that mathematical biologists work on span time zones and international borders.

Ever since hikers first spotted the remains of Ötzi the Iceman, as he is known, emerging from the melting ice in the Ötztal Alps near the Austrian - Italian border in 1991, scientists have been working to determine how he died and what he was doing in such a remote spot.

The Mexican graduated from the Tecnológico de Monterrey says that Magnus, a patient with an arm amputated above the elbow, is the first person to use technology and, since 2013, it has allowed him to develop a normal working life, return to his activity as operator of heavy machinery on the border between Sweden and Finland, as well as manipulate an egg without breaking it.

Charles Cuvelier, who referred to the border wall as «part of a suite of solutions» and who works for the U.S. National Park Service as chief of law enforcement, security and emergency services, said that about 70 countries worldwide have chosen to build border walls.

After completing medical school and a residency in family practice, both at U.C. Davis, Wintemute went to work in 1981 as medical coordinator at the Nong Samet Refugee Camp, just inside Cambodia's border with Thailand.

At transport nodes such as airports and border crossings we work with governments to help detect and stop trafficking using sniffer dogs, apps for customs officials and training for enforcement staff.

If the system doesn't work as planned and ends up keeping good scientific talent out, Nurse adds, «then we will be informing the border agency this is a significant issue.

When drugs come into the U.S., the FDA and border control officials work to verify the authenticity of as many compounds as possible.

As part of the work, veterinary epidemiologist Sarah Cleaveland of the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and colleagues started vaccinating dogs around the borders, hoping to keep rabies from spreading to other wildlife in the Serengeti.

As a Harvard graduate receiving her Ph.D. in Cell & Developmental Biology and also formerly working at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Charlotte Vines, who is currently an Assistant Professor for the Border Biomedical Research Center and the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), has a lot of experience in the field of cancer biology.

Inspired by French Country elegance, this stencil works beautifully on walls and can be used as a stand - alone design, repeated in a pattern or as a border design.

I definitely don't see the pants with the flower border as working to advantage.

The lehenga with shades of metallic rust and gold is worth discussing here as its blouse carry an intricate set of embroidery work with perfect cuts and use of tussles at the borders of the blouse, whereas the lehenga has many flares with each flare - carrying floral embroidery work.

Work done on these dresses is very heavy with full covering on the shirt as well as the border.