(a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(4) But there is plenty here that thrills, from grand plans for offshore power production to the micro-engineeering of intelligent load management.
(5) A slew of figures from showbusiness, royalty and sport have also been linked with offshore companies in the documents.
(6) Zhang Lifan, an independent scholar, told the Associated Press that the use of offshore holdings by those with ties to officials gave a strong impression of privilege and impunity.
(7) Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more.
(8) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(9) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
(10) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(11) The biggest gain for most non-doms is the allowance for tax-free offshore capital growth.
(12) Between them the British and the Dutch have more than two-thirds of the offshore rigs.
(13) In January 2007 the Guardian disclosed that BAE had used an offshore front company, Red Diamond , to secretly pay £8.4m, 30% of the radar's ostensible price, into a Swiss account.
(14) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
(15) The South Africans were allegedly hired by a company with close ties to Gaddafi, training his presidential guard and handling some of his offshore financial dealings.
(16) In a tweet, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection denied the incident took place: “Reports of a disturbance at the Manus Offshore processing centre are false.” Detainees and staff on the island insist it did take place.
(17) The letter also criticises the decision to move pregnant women to offshore processing .
(18) The reports, by the Guardian and others, based on leaked financial documents, showed that the brother-in-law of the president, Xi Jinping, and the son and son-in-law of the former premier Wen Jiabao were among more than a dozen family members of current or former leaders using offshore companies in the Caribbean .
(19) A new battery storage solution for offshore wind energy will be piloted from the same project, and Statoil has also followed the trend and established a New Energy division for wind power and CCS.
(20) Clarification: Jirehouse Capital and Stephen Jones - see Clarification and footnote Jailed British property developer Scot Young, an associate of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, constructed a secret network of offshore companies to hold his assets during a multimillion-pound divorce battle, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ's) research.
Seaward
Definition:
(a.) Directed or situated toward the sea.
(adv.) Toward the sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer 5:349-356, 1970; R. W. Geib, M. B. Seaward, M. L. Stevens, C.-L. Cho, and M. Majumdar, Virus Res.
(2) The absence of an effect of PRLs in chum salmon fry seems to be due, at least in part, to their good osmoregulatory ability during the period of seaward migration; effects of the exogenously administered PRLs may be compensated for by other hormones responsible for their hydromineral balance.
(3) The New York Bight extends seaward some 80 to 100 miles (ca.
(4) Perhaps mine was the last generation to be brought up with the fully inflated version of this idea – that the Clyde's tradition and skills made its ships singularly good – but it was powerful while it lasted and still held sway in 1961, when the documentary Seawards the Great Ships won an unexpected Oscar and thrilled us at the cinema with its heroic depiction of Glasgow's workaday river.
(5) Lymnaea truncatula is not found on or at the seaward side of the dike, whereas it is abundant all over the marshland.
(6) Particles that escape estuaries or are discharged by rivers into the shelf region tend to travel longshoreward rather than seaward.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Views of seaward mangrove fringes showing minor (left) and extreme (right) damage in June 2016 between Limmen and MacArthur rivers, NT.
(8) This paper reports studies on the mechanisms underlying seaward orientation in hatchling turtles.
(9) The high infection percentage among adult animals and the strikingly low frequency among slaughter lambs could be explained by the characteristic management system of the marshland: In summer the sheep graze the dike and the foreland on its seaward side, and in winter the animals graze in the marshland.
(10) Turn seawards to experience the thrill of the Indian Ocean’s thunderous breakers; if you are lucky you may spy a pod of bottlenose dolphins.
(11) Its seaward position gives it great strategic value: a kind of Gibraltar at the mouth of the upper Adriatic.
(12) Seaward lies Burgh island, where Noël Coward and Agatha Christie partied in the 1920s.