Sentences with phrase «years foreign land»

In the past few years foreign land developers have put up hotels and recreational facilities on some cayes at an alarming rate.

Not exact matches

Home prices across Greater Vancouver, in British Columbia, are set to depreciate by 8.5 % year - over-year in 2017, dragged down by the recent Land Transfer Tax on Foreign Nationals and China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange imposing new, stricter requirements on currency conversions.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

It served me VERY well during my military related deployments over the years, as a nice and comfortable stepping stone when dealing with a local populace in a foreign land.

If your invisible, untraceable alien claims responsibility for the creation of the universe and life on this planet, if your invisible, untraceable alien created a race of people, led them out of slavery in a foreign land, appeared to them countless times, spoke thru prophets to them over thousands of years, and all of that interaction was successively captured in a book over those thousands of years..

QIC's potential investment also comes as pressure builds on superannuation funds to look at competing with the wave of foreign pension funds that have spent more than $ 1 billion buying farm land in Australia in the past few years.

I am quite certain that in the 8 years that the mortal remains of this Costa Rican national had been in the possession of the 37th Military Hospital authorities, other foreign nationals had perished on our land whose friends and relatives had been promptly located in order to have the remains of these deceased foreign nationals properly and legally disposed of with dignity.

Sir Menzies became party leader at the beginning of March, and despite years as the party's foreign affairs spokesman, has failed to land a punch on Mr Blair at prime minister's questions since then.

The clause, which applies to overseas groups (and arguably to domestic organizations working in foreign lands), set off a furious debate on free speech that came to a head this year.

But as 3.3 million tourists a year bike, surf, hike and downward - dog their way through the scenic Indonesian island, more and more farmers are selling their land to foreign developers.

Year One was all about figuring out blogging and my place in what felt like a foreign land.

Though it lost the foreign - language Oscar to In a Better World 65, this drama about two grown twins who piece together their mother's past after her death landed on several critic top ten lists at the end of last year.

Ana Lily Amirpour made a huge impression on the indie world a couple years ago with her directorial debut of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, even landing on our list of the Best Foreign Films of 2014.

The nominated directors from this year's Best Foreign Language Film nominees (Land of Mine, A Man Called Ove, The Salesman, Toni Erdmann, and Tanna) have released a joint statement about the Oscars, human rights, and the growing climate of nationalism around the world.

Land of Mine punches you in the gut repeatedly, although at least it isn't as relentlessly bleak and zoned - in as last year's Foreign Language winner, the Hungarian Holocaust drama Son of Saul.

In the Foreign Film category are such Oscar nominees as Dunkirk, Loveless, The Square and last year's La La Land.

• Dennis Lim, meanwhile, chats it up with «Class» director Laurent Canet in the wake of his film landing the official French foreign film selection for this year's Academy Awards.

Far Cry 5 made waves during its announcement last year due to its villains no longer being a fictional foreign people in a far off land and instead making them a faith - based, white, American group in the heart of the USA — a group not often targeted in video games.

He is given to bouts of hopelessness and resignation as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits are lifted when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down - to - earth Croatian nurse who is struggling to raise her family in a foreign land.

HSBC Advance customers under the Advance Newcomer program (for landed immigrants, foreign workers or new residents of Canada within the past three years) have 6 months from the date they open an account to meet the eligibility criteria.

To qualify for any special offer pertaining to the BMO NewStart program as set out above, a customer must be a landed immigrant or foreign worker who arrived in Canada within the last five (5) years.

Over the years I've logged over 97,000 ocean miles, and made port into many foreign lands.

Sometimes we connect with foreign lands so profoundly that we ache for them even years later.

I remember a couple of years ago, landing up in a foreign country and struggling with the electrical sockets as I had not packed in a universal adapter.

The exhibition No Foreign Lands, which opened at the Scottish National Gallery before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, showcases works created during the past ten years, much of which the artist spent in Trinidad.

And now, again, with the U.S. deeply entangled in a highly debatable situation on foreign lands that can't be summed up or resolved simply — on the horizon the country braces for yet again, forty years later... Star Wars.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

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And to stabilize the market and cool down speculation, Hong Kong also raised taxes by up to 20 per cent on land sold within three years of its purchase, whether foreign owned or not.

Although the law was amended after 2002 to exempt spouses, dependent children and a few others from the excessive demand assessment in recognition of its discriminatory and unfair quality, it remains a barrier to other foreign nationals and their children — those like Parkdale's client, a nanny who had worked long hours, days and years caring for Canadians and now was denied landing in Canada because her son was disabled.

The prices of houses in cities like Toronto and Vancouver have been high since long before current worries about foreign buyers, he says, stating that zoning and land - use policies have been driving up real estate prices in these cities for more than 50 years by reducing the availability of housing.

In New York so far this year, foreign investment into office properties has accounted for 31 percent of the total volume; as well as 10 percent of all multifamily; 29 percent of land purchases; 27 percent of retail deals; and 62 percent of hotel purchases, although Latham noted that the recent purchase of the Waldorf Astoria from Hilton Worldwide Holdings by a Chinese insurance company for $ 2 billion has «obviously skewed that figure.»

Foreign institutional investors are spending heavily on U.S. assets this year, revealed JLL's global capital markets experts at the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) fall meeting, currently underway at New York's Javits Center.

For years, these professionals had complained that the Act made the acquisition of land in The Bahamas by foreign persons cumbersome and that it acted as a deterrent to legitimate investment.