Sentence examples for countries offshore from inspiring English sources
As the locations attractive to wind developers fill up in densely populated European countries, offshore wind is expanding.
Britain is working with countries including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden to negotiate the North Sea Countries Offshore Grid Initiative, a planned network of underwater cables that would connect offshore wind farms and other power sources to nearby countries.
If we could manage this process – for example, by processing refugee applications from some countries offshore, and by reintroducing managed migration programmes for other countries – could we not both benefit our economies and reduce or eliminate the desperate trips across the Mediterranean and Channel?
Despite its huge potential, Britain trails other countries in offshore production of renewable energy — particularly Germany, Denmark and Spain — and in manufacturing, design and supply chain jobs.
The Senate voted today to bar companies that move to countries considered offshore tax havens from winning military contracts as Democrats stepped up their emphasis on an issue they think has growing political appeal.
Vietnam first achieved a "good" rating from Gartner back in 2010 when it was named one of the top 30 countries for offshore services.
In April 2013 three of her children appeared on a list of people from 170 countries whose offshore banking records and personal data were released to the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in the largest leak of financial data in history.
It can't, for example, change a country's tax system, or ask for a country's offshore financial services sector to be dismantled, without facing political opposition.
It would help improve transparency in the country's offshore financial industry, he told the nation in a TV address.
CNOOC, short for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, does most of the country's offshore drilling.
New creations that turn out to have staying power can expand a country's offshore territorial rights.
