Sentence examples for offshore states from inspiring English sources

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 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).

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.

The article "Stalking a Killer That Lurks Just a Few Feet Offshore" (June 7) states that rip current drownings occur in every state with an ocean coast.

State-sanctioned, casino-sponsored online gambling is different from online gambling that originates offshore, which states cannot tax.

The bill would allow drilling in all of the outer continental shelf beyond 100 miles and between 50 miles and 100 miles offshore from states that permit it.

Design and development of such structures will depend upon numerical tools that can simulate and predict the structural response in specific offshore sea states.

So rather than see the moratorium expire and open the way to drilling as close as three miles from the coast, they said they were pushing any drilling at least 50 miles offshore, requiring states to agree to it and tying the whole package to a series of clean energy initiatives that have so far languished in Congress.