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Several weeks ago, while writing a piece about boosters, I asked him for his thoughts about those local patrons who often act as the financial conduits between athletic departments and athletes.
The threat to the U.S. isnt so much through trade with Europe euro zone exports are equal to only 2% of U.S. GDP but through financial conduits.
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Prominent among the guests was Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian businessman suspected of being a financial conduit for Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization.
Europe has been an important financial conduit for Hezbollah, which has been implicated in attacks on Israelis abroad, maintains an arsenal of rockets trained at Israel and has come to the aid of Syria's government in its effort to crush an uprising now in its third year.
Lebanon experts said that an American cyber espionage campaign directed at Lebanon's banking system would seem to be a plausible possibility, given Washington's concerns that the country's banks are being used as a financial conduit for the Syrian government and for Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party.
Other than Mr. Bashir, the central players in Ms. Jones's report are a confidant, Hambali, alias Riduan Isamuddin, who is thought to be Al Qaeda's main Indonesian contact; another colleague, Abu Jibril, who has been described as a financial conduit for Al Qaeda in the region; and Abdul Wahid Kadunnga, who looked after Mr. Bashir when he went into exile.
A slightly built Yemeni known for his virulently anti-American extremism, Mr. bin al-Shibh was initially thought by investigators to be a midlevel organizer and financial conduit , but he has emerged as a far more central figure in the Sept. 11 plot.
By erecting a virtual tollbooth at the prison gate, JPay has become a critical financial conduit for an opaque constellation of vendors that profit from millions of poor families with incarcerated loved ones.
Regulators will suggest that banks and brokerage houses adopt voluntary but detailed procedures that, if fully enacted, would sound an alarm whenever a foreign leader or that leader's family and business partners use financial companies as conduits for large sums.
FINANCIAL TIMES Identifying a Conduit for European Contagion | Deutsche Bank could become a conduit for transferring European risk to the United States, and its North American subsidiary Taunus Corporation, with a leverage ratio of about 78 to 1, raises concerns, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist, Simon Johnson, writes in a column for Bloomberg News.
In his book, too, Geithner rationalizes: "the financial system is the conduit between the Fed and the economy, and the financial system was broken".
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The phrase "financial conduits" functions as a noun phrase, typically acting as the subject or object of a sentence. It identifies entities or mechanisms that facilitate the flow of money or financial resources. Ludwig examples show its use in describing systems and organizations involved in financial transactions.
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