Sentence examples for foreign seamen from inspiring English sources
Zhongshan Dong Lu has several hotels, the central administrative offices of Shanghai, and a residence for foreign seamen.
The question in McCulloch was whether the National Labor Relations Act extended to foreign seamen working aboard foreign-flag vessels.
Indeed, all parties agreed that Congress was constitutionally empowered to reach the foreign seamen involved while they were in American waters.
B1 Port Chaplains' Role Grows Port chaplains report that an increasing number of foreign seamen are being forced to remain aboard ship while in American ports.
They had no visas and no shore leave, reflections of the daunting array of new hurdles for foreign seamen to gain shore leave after 9/11.
In light of that contrary legislative history and domestic and international precedent, it is not at all surprising that McCulloch balked at holding foreign seamen covered without a strong affirmative showing of congressional intent.
After WWI foreign (mainly Arab) seamen found their position was changed from that of being welcome, to now being seen as unwanted guests.
"With the arrival of foreign explorers, navigators, seamen, and merchants," she tells us, "the fixed world of the Hawaiians, governed by a hereditary ali'i and priesthood with a distinctive system of kapu, suddenly became one of flux, if not chaos". In many ways, it remains so today.
Whenever the President finds it necessary in the interest of United States commitments abroad to provide facilities and services for United States merchant seamen in foreign areas, he may authorize the Secretary of Defense, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, to cooperate with and assist the United Seamen's Service in establishing and providing those facilities and services.
An early concern of the EEIC was to ensure the health and discipline of its European soldiers and seamen at its foreign settlements.
China in this period was hospitable to foreign ideas, as Arabian and Persian seamen roved its ports and "western" music and dance found their way into China from Central Asia.
