Sentence examples for acts of foreign from inspiring English sources

These countries, without employing any act of state doctrine, afford substantial respect to acts of foreign states occurring within their territorial confines.

Meanwhile, pacifists' emphasis on the moral issues surrounding violence could be turned against them, especially during humanitarian crises or acts of foreign belligerence.

In doing so, the US military, as usual, brushed aside demands of Afghan officials for legal accountability for the destructive acts of foreign soldiers in their country.

"We will continue to vigorously investigate and prosecute acts of foreign bribery covered by this important law and to hold accountable those businesses and individuals who seek to illegally obtain business through bribery of foreign officials," she said.

We also ask the United Nations to issue a resolution forbidding acts of foreign aggression against Venezuela, calling for the return of the illegally retained funds of the country, and offering support to implement the results of the referendum.

It is also, in theory, possible (but it has scarcely ever happened in practice) that an American parent company could be held liable for the acts of foreign subsidiaries "where they authorised, directed or controlled the activity in question".The power of American legislation to bring charges for bribery by non-nationals is, however, negligible.

The rejection of the Versailles treaty and the League of Nations after the First World War and then of preparedness on the eve of the Second are only the best known of the Senate's many acts of foreign-policy sabotage, which have continued down to the present, with its refusal to ratify international instruments on genocide, nuclear testing, and human rights.

It's not going to cut it to say that this was an act of foreign terrorism; there are Egyptian terrorists all the way from Iraq to Afghanistan to Yemen and to Iran.

Mrs Thatcher's Conservative government, hard pressed at home, has against the odds and to most people's surprise carried through a major act of foreign policy to its intended conclusion.Well, half its intended conclusion.

A New Orleans merchant cannot be taxed there for ordering goods in London or New York, because, in the one case it is an act of foreign, and in the other of interstate commerce, both of which are subject to regulation by Congress alone.' Rebbins v. Shelby County Taxing Dist.

A New Orleans merchant cannot be taxed there for ordering goods from London or New York, because, in the one case, it is an act of foreign, and, in the other, of interstate, commerce, both of which are subject to regulation by congress alone.