Sentence examples for offshore state from inspiring English sources

The City has exploited this remarkable position to establish itself as a kind of offshore state, a secrecy jurisdiction which controls the network of tax havens housed in the UK's crown dependencies and overseas territories.

At one point, Mr. Penn argued that Mrs. Clinton should find subtle ways to exploit what he called Mr. Obama's "lack of American roots," referring to his Kenyan father and his childhood years in Indonesia and even the offshore state of Hawaii, the campaign officials said.

The offshore state is also an interesting mosaic of Portuguese colonial culture, Cantonese traditions and a somewhat conflicted relationship with the Chinese central government (Hao, 2011).

As jobs go offshore, states and cities are really trying to get new jobs and keep the ones they have.

As the U.S. Navy is starting to realize, a major PRC aim is to transform all the waters of maritime Asia those between the continental mainland and the offshore states of Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia into a Chinese "lake".

The City is a semi-offshore state, a bit like the UK's crown dependencies and overseas territories, tax havens legitimised by the Privy Council.

Unlike offshore courts, state courts must give "full faith and credit" to the judgments of other states' courts.

A quarter of these contracts went to offshore companies – state funds flying abroad, of no benefit to UK employment or tax revenues.

Our experiment involves acquisition of active source seismic data (Multi-Channel Seismic (MCS) and Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) data) along 3 transects of the Juan de Fuca plate, offshore Washington state to the Endeavour Ridge, offshore Oregon to Axial Volcano, and along the Cascadia trench ~ 100 km offshore.

Frying Pan Shoals offshore the state reported a gust of 92 mph.

High levels of a toxic alga that could poison humans were detected offshore, prompting state health officials to take the crustaceans off the menu.