Sentence examples for offshore territory from inspiring English sources

PRI Holdings is based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a UK offshore territory and international tax haven.

The Norwegians use these maps to make smart choices with full knowledge of their natural capital — the myriad fishing, oil, mineral and biodiversity resources of their offshore territory.

We even agreed, when he considered Cameron's demands, making the City of London an offshore territory in the heart of the single market,"im-po-ssi-ble".

Much of the UK's offshore territory belongs to the Crown Estate, which manages and leases the seabed on which UK offshore wind farms are built.

On Tuesday, House Republicans introduced three bills to reverse the administration's offshore oil drilling policies, calling for vast new tracts of offshore territory to be opened to deep-water drilling and for speedier approval of drilling permits.

With the political jockeying inside the Chinese leadership more turbulent than expected because of such things as the Bo Xilai scandal and the conflicts with China's neighbors over offshore territory, Beijing has had less time than it might have to focus on the American contest.

Setting aside the offshore territories, however, the only caucus states left are North Dakota and Wyoming.

Today London is at the centre of a vast hub-and-spoke system, with the offshore territories acting as feeders.

The BVI are only obliged to uphold European sanctions extended by the UK to its offshore territories.

These are British offshore territories, however secrecy denies us an opportunity to discover the sum being held in these jurisdictions.

Its offshore territories include Maṣīrah Island to the east and Al-Ḥallāniyyah Island (the largest of the five Khuriyyā Muriyyā Islands) 25 miles (40 km) off the south coast.