Foreign investment, although ostensibly favored by the Eritrean government, is nonetheless hindered by government regulations that seek to protect domestic industries from foreign competition and by a generally unfavorable investment climate.

Unlike other Academy Awards, the Foreign Language Film Award does not require films to be released in the United States in order to be eligible for competition.

" He was the winner of a competition to design new buildings in Whitehall to house the Foreign Office and War Office.

Foreign competition eventually caused most of the industry on which Portsmouth's economy was based to move out of the area.

No Man's Land won Prix du scénario at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie and the Indian blockbuster Lagaan.

In an article appearing in the Glasgow Herald on 29 September 1936 it was noted that John Cairncross had scored an " outstanding double success of being placed 1st in the Home List and 1st in the competition for the Foreign Office and the Diplomatic Service ," and that he had been placed 5th in the ( Glasgow University ) bursary competition of 1930, and was also a Scholar and Bell Exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge.

It was shown in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and it was selected as a contender for nomination for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011 and was one of nine films shortlisted to advance to the next round of voting for nomination.

In 1950, the foundation established the prestigious Foreign Area Fellowship Program ( FAFP ), the first large-scale national competition in support of area studies training in the United States.

In April 2006 Senior Biology Major Ding Ding and Junior English Major Yu Yongcui of the OUC Speech and Debate Team reached the semifinals of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press " FLTRP Cup " national debate competition.

Subsequently, Djuvara decided to apply for office in the diplomatic corps, won the competition, and was sent by Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu as a diplomatic courier to Sweden, on the very day Ion Antonescu was toppled by a coup d ' état and Romania pulled out of the Axis Powers to join the Allies ( August 23, 1944 ).

No Man's Land went on to win the Award for Best Screenplay ( Prix du scénario ) at Cannes, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie.

Foreign competition and the mass production of cheap new electronic products were taking over the market.

* 1980-Entered the Diplomatic Service through public competition, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon

As Minister for Foreign Trade he was responsible for OECD cooperation, competition and trade policy, consumer affairs and tourism.

Squire Sanders ' lawyers represent clients in the following areas of the law: antitrust and competition ; anticorruption compliance and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ; appellate and Supreme Court ; corporate transactions, finance and governance ; data protection and privacy ; e-discovery and records management ; environmental, safety and health ; global compliance solutions ; government relations and public advocacy ; immigration ; intellectual property and technology ; international dispute resolution ; international trade and export controls ; labor and employment ; litigation ; mergers and acquisitions ; pensions ; project and infrastructure finance ; public finance ; public-private partnerships ; real estate ; restructuring and insolvency ; taxation and benefits ; and white collar defense and investigations.

The most positive element to emerge from the Oslo meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers has been the freer, franker, and wider discussions, animated by much better mutual understanding than in past meetings.

The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

The United States Department of State has classified the group as a terrorist group by adding it to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Since 2001, Bulgaria has managed to attract considerable amounts of Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ).

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

Bevin's initial approach to the USSR as Foreign Secretary has been described by historian Kenneth O. Morgan as " wary and suspicious, but not automatically hostile ".

Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

" The Foreign Ministry action confirms that Doraemon has come to be considered a Japanese cultural icon.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, again more than any other country in Asia.

The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, surviving three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.

Guyana has diplomatic relations with a wide range of nations, and these managed primarily through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a representative office in Hong Kong.

Shortly afterwards, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa stated that " Libya has decided an immediate ceasefire and an immediate halt to all military operations ".

On 31 October 2007 the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, by a vote of 17 to 4, recommended ratification, and President George W. Bush publicly supported U. S. accession to the Convention ; no date has yet been set for action by the full Senate.

The United States has provided military and defence technical assistance to Kuwait from both Foreign Military Sales ( FMS ) and commercial sources with all transactions made by direct cash sale.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.

Malta has Foreign embassies with:

Mauritius has attracted US $ 10. 98 billion in Foreign direct investment inflows.

Foreign direct investment ( FDI ) has picked up and is estimated to have reached 12 percent of GDP in 2007, compared with 7 percent in 2006.

A former deputy secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has stated that Fraser was ' the principal architect ' in the installation of Robert Mugabe.

" Now Burma has to defend itself if it was bombarded at any international forum ," he said when winding up a debate at committee stage for the Foreign Ministry.

Foreign investor interest along the Pacific Coast has motivated some unscrupulous people to challenge ownership rights in the Departments of Rivas and Chinandega, with the hope of achieving some sort of cash settlement.

Foreign policy now takes on a different perspective and must become skilled not merely at response but also at projection.

Through his involvement in the Council on Foreign Relations, he also gained exposure to economic analysis, which would become the bedrock of his understanding in economic policy.

Relevant documents have also been released by the Argentine government and the British Foreign Office and other information sources have become available, including the diary of Bishop Hurley.

The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence ( 1997 ) about her childhood, which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become.

Jenkins had wanted to become Foreign Secretary, but accepted an appointment as President of the European Commission ( succeeding François-Xavier Ortoli ) after Callaghan appointed Anthony Crosland to the Foreign Office.

However, in the end of June the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that it did not intend to become a party to the border treaty and did not consider itself bound by the circumstances concerning the object and the purposes of the treaty because Riigikogu had attached a preambula to the ratification act that referenced earlier documents that mentioned the Soviet occupation and the uninterrupted legal continuity of the Republic of Estonia during the Soviet period.

In 1990, Perot reached agreement with Vietnam's Foreign Ministry to become its business agent in the event that diplomatic relations were normalized.

The Agent for Foreign Affairs, Van der Goes who had been in favor of distancing the Republic from the French, chose this inopportune moment to secretly approach the King of Prussia as a mediator, with a scheme in which the Hereditary Prince was to become a kind of constitutional monarch in a constitution on the model of the American Constitution.

*: Under Irish nationality law, any person with an Irish grandparent can become an Irish citizen by being registered in the Foreign Births Register at an Irish embassy or consular office, or at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.

Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul.

Foreign bodies, especially small pieces of hay or straw, can become lodged in the eyes of guinea pigs, resulting in excessive blinking, tearing, and in some cases an opaque film over the eye due to corneal ulcer.

This was written 南支那海 until 2004, when the Japanese Foreign Ministry and other departments switched the spelling 南シナ海, which has become the standard usage in Japan.

On 14 November Dorothy Thompson, who in 1934 had become the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, made an impassioned broadcast to an estimated 5 million listeners in defence of Grynszpan, pointing out that the Nazis themselves had made heroes of the assassins of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.

He went on to become Defense Minister and later Foreign Minister of Israel.

" Foreign persons of Greek origin ", who neither live in Greece nor hold Greek citizenship nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting in Greece's military forces, under article 4 of the Code of Greek Citizenship, as amended by the Acquisition of Greek Nationality by Aliens of Greek Origin Law ( Law 2130 / 1993 ).

In his role of Foreign Secretary he was instrumental in negotiating what has become known as the quadruple alliance between the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia, and Prussia at Chaumont in March 1814, in the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris that brought peace with France, and at the Congress of Vienna.

While in France Burgoyne met and befriended the Duc de Choiseul who would later become the Foreign Minister and directed French policy during the Seven Years War.

After graduation, Hirota entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become a career diplomat, and served in a number of overseas posts.

In his second career in politics, he rose to become Foreign Minister of Japan in 1976 – 1977.

In 2004, official documents of the Japanese Foreign Ministry and other departments switched to the name 東シナ海 ( pronounced the same ), which has become the standard usage in Japan.

John Foster Dulles, then a lawyer from New York who would later become Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower, also wrote an article in the initial issue of Foreign Affairs regarding the difficulties surrounding war reparations placed on Germany after the First World War.

When he left the Foreign Office in 1860 it was to become minister of state, an office which he held until 1863.