They were subsequently banned from returning to Russia for three years, purportedly because they had violated their visa regulations.
Abbott has proposed the Coalition will spend $20m to buy boats from local fishermen, purportedly so they do not sell them to people-smugglers first, part of his $420m package aimed at curbing the number of unauthorised boat arrivals.
Some bright person came up with the idea of sending lots of these unfortunates off to foreign countries on a gap year, purportedly so they can learn new skills and improve their employability – oh, and learn about other cultures and stuff.
Although the new law marks a shift in official policy, Japan has long accepted foreign workers through backdoor routes, such as visas granted to Brazilians and Peruvians of Japanese descent or technical programs for interns, mainly from China and Southeast Asia, purportedly so they can be trained in skills to take back to their home countries.
Talk of theoretical gag orders aside, one of the most disconcerting tenets of the PRISM program is the idea that the NSA doesn't need a company's approval (or even for the company to know) for them to start gathering data; they purportedly just snatch what they can as the data passes through the Internet's central hubs.
Even when they are purportedly just conveying facts, they're doing so through a particular prism.
When the ancient Greeks arrived on an island they wanted to conquer, they purportedly burned their boats.
And, after decades of experiments with voucher programs, the research is clear: They fail most of the children they purportedly are intended to benefit, children who are disproportionately black, brown and poor.
In the day's 12- to 14-knot breezes and flat seas, the conditions in which they purportedly might enjoy a marked speed advantage over the Kiwis, they clearly did not.
"On the other hand, by doing so, they will be fanning the flames of the very risk that they purportedly were most concerned about two months ago," he said.
