Because of the role that offshore centres play in allowing companies and individuals to avoid, indeed evade, tax, they enjoy powerful backing.
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Roberto Alemann, Argentina's finance minister at the time of the war, has given the sovereignty-sharing idea powerful conservative backing.
But by the same token, he lacks powerful people backing the changes.
But Kenagy has some powerful supporters backing his experiment.
With Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest and most powerful figure, backing the unimpressive portal, investors know that there will be plenty of money to burn and plenty of reasons to keep the company going (not losing face being one).
Thus the second miracle of Hanukkah, the first being that the ancient Jews defeated the numerically and military superior Assyrians, who had the backing of powerful allies.
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The U.S. program has been kept alive with backing from powerful pols such as Alaska's ranking Senator Ted Stevens, a World War II veteran and chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
In the build-up to the vote in New York, Israel worked hard to derail the Palestinian strategy - or at least to try to ensure the backing of a network of powerful allies.
Now much of the ruling party's core Sinhalese base seems to be lining up behind Mr Wickremanayake, and he has the backing of the country's powerful Buddhist monks.
In addition, the poll showed that the mayor's support among whites is slipping, and that Mr Ford may be taking from him the backing of some of Memphis's powerful unions.
McMickle claims to have the backing of nearly 100 church leaders, a powerful constituency in the inner city, while Johnson already represents half the district.
" Jews, he claimed, "enjoy good press because they have powerful financial means behind them, enormous power and the unconditional backing of the United States, and this favors a certain arrogance that I find unbearable.
Confronting powerful criminals is possible these days, at least if you have Kremlin backing.
On paper she has a powerful grip on the legislature, with over 70% of the lower-house and a majority of the senate backing her coalition.
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