Sentence examples for from foreign interests from inspiring English sources

Many comparable countries, including Canada and New Zealand, are among the 114 nations that ban donations to political parties from foreign interests.

The narrator was talking over stock footage of how the Shah's health corps eradicated malaria in the countryside, of how he modernised Iran's rail infrastructure, of how he took its natural resources back from foreign interests.

On the day that Trump spoke in Wisconsin, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a prominent legal watchdog group, expanded a federal lawsuit that accuses Trump of violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution, a provision that restricts officeholders from receiving gifts and favors from foreign interests.

It had rarely been used in prosecutions, even as prominent Washington lobbyists, consultants, lawyers and former public officials collected ever-larger, often six- and seven-figure paydays from foreign interests looking to burnish their sometimes unsavory reputations in the United States capital.

The organisation rose to international prominence in the 1970s, as member-states increasingly took control of their domestic petroleum industries from foreign interests and acquired a major say in the pricing of crude oil on world markets.

In the matter of the prohibition of the emoluments under the Constitution, just last month a federal district judge in Washington held that a group of nearly 200 Democratic senators and representatives has legal standing to sue President Trump for violating the U.S. Constitution's emoluments provision banning the acceptance of gifts from foreign interests.

Partly as a result, the number of people registering as "foreign agents" for new clients — meaning they lobby for foreign interests — jumped from 68 in 2016 to 102 in 2017.

Asked by Jonathan Karl, of ABC News, what he thought about the controversy over donations from wealthy foreign interests to the Clinton Foundation, Sanders replied, "It tells me what is a very serious problem.

The second axiom: Mass democratic movements, such as Georgia's Rose Revolution in 2003 and Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004, are signs of a "permanent revolution" that threatens the foundations of the Russian state; such subversion receives financing from the CIA, NATO, foreign interests–and bad Russians.

Foreigners are excluded from the sale since foreign interests have already bought 49percentt.

Still, supporters of the bill said it would discourage corporations and special interest groups from pouring money into political campaigns, including this year's midterm races, by requiring them to disclose their spending, and would prevent foreign interests from influencing the selection of American elected officials.