The international administration here hopes that this ballot will be the first step toward cutting Kosovo loose from its foreign lifelines, but so far almost no Serbs have registered to vote.
"Foreign forces are the lifeline of a regime that would rapidly collapse without them.
Now Prisa, the world's largest Spanish-language media group, has given up most of its family ownership in return for a lifeline from foreign investors.
An alliance of the YPG and Syrian opposition fighters backed by airstrikes by the US-led coalition against the militant group has seized swaths of territory from Isis in recent days, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad, a key lifeline of foreign fighters and supplies for the militants.
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"Hopefully, in their calculation, this will attract the foreign countries to throw a lifeline to save their souls.
As scores of companies are hemorrhaging jobs, closing plants and slashing compensation, foreign employers have become a lifeline for Ms. Ryan and millions of other Americans.
American officials here are preparing an order that for the first time in decades would pry open most Iraqi industries for foreign investment, opening a new lifeline for an economy starved of capital during Saddam Hussein's government.
He has come to look like a peripheral president, incapable of taking action while Mexico is overtaken by China, the Caribbean and Central America in the race for foreign investment and jobs.The immigration lifeline from Mr Bush is not likely on its own to transform Mr Fox's fortunes.
[A1.] U.S. to Allow Investment in Iraq American officials in Baghdad, Iraq, are preparing an order that for the first time in decades would pry open most Iraqi industries for foreign investment, creating a new lifeline for an economy starved of capital during Saddam Hussein's rule.
