Sentence examples for foreign secrecy from inspiring English sources

"Though the US has been a pioneer in defending itself from foreign secrecy jurisdictions it provides little information in return to other countries, making it a formidable, harmful and irresponsible secrecy jurisdiction," the TJN report said.

But the agency was hindered by foreign bank secrecy laws that concealed what the Pritzkers owned.

Republican senators are likely to be interested in the Pritzker family's reputation as innovators in the use of offshore trusts and foreign bank secrecy laws to shelter their wealth from income, capital gains and inheritance taxes.

The decision represents a major setback for Arab Bank, which has said it is unwilling to release the documents in question because they cannot be disclosed without violating foreign bank secrecy laws — an argument that the court previously rejected.

Offshore banks brag that they can help customers shelter income because the U.S. government cannot penetrate some foreign banking secrecy laws.

These cases will be heard in foreign tribunals, in secrecy, and without appeal to any U.S. court.

Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich). said in a statement today that the loosening of foreign governments' bank secrecy laws is "a very welcome development which is long overdue".

For another, Unger's proposed solutions range from those that are correct but vague (less secrecy; a foreign policy that concentrates more on long-term problems) to those that are implausible.

But in a significant number of cases there have been indications of impropriety: of foreign buyers using the secrecy and lax regulation of New York real estate to launder the proceeds of criminal activity; of foreign officials enriching themselves while in office and then stashing their gains in a condo with a view of Central Park.

I like the Libertarians when they don't want to go marching off to all of these wars that destroy citizen control with secrecy and foreign adventures and so forth.

In addition, the C.I.A. is able to guard the secrecy of foreign-liaison operations more effectively, especially from Congressional prying, than it can its own activities.