Sentence examples for overseas official from inspiring English sources

By choosing an overseas official, Livingstone brought enhanced stature to the new role.

Carthage handled by far the greatest volume of overseas official traffic and trade, being the natural port for the wealthiest area of North Africa.

While the bulletin board used a server in Atlanta, most of its members were overseas, officials said.

The inquiry focuses on possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits payoffs to overseas officials.

He is attacked by Americans for printing money and by overseas officials for trying to help American trade by undermining the dollar.

The investigation of bribery charges has become a major priority for US authorities, particularly of US companies charged with bribing overseas officials.

A10 New Effort for Child Labor President Clinton plans to ask Congress to more than double the nation's spending on reducing child labor overseas, officials said.

The continuing investigation is the first large-scale anti-corruption inquiry by the SFO since the bribery of overseas officials was outlawed in 2002 legislation.

The payments are alleged to have continued for at least 10 years and beyond 2002, when Britain outlawed corrupt payments to overseas officials.

The State Department currently refuses to approve adoptions from Cambodia and Vietnam to pressure those countries to install safeguards so that children with biological relatives who can care for them are not shipped overseas, officials say.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act focuses on bribery of overseas officials, and the easy case would be if a company had agreed to hire someone's child in exchange for getting business from a government-controlled entity.