blocked funds

How much interest do I have to pay on the blocked funds?

In 1959 my father formally applied for the release of the blocked funds for reinvestment purposes.

Obviously, yet another application to the Central Bank for the release of our blocked funds would fail unless I could apply some sort of leverage.

As my mother pointed out, our net profits from the Syrian export operation at that stage amounted to over seventy per cent of the original blocked funds.

Mr. Bush and other conservatives have blocked funds for the U.N. Population Fund because they're concerned about its involvement in China.

'You ask, Mr Howell, for ministerial endorsement of an application for the release of blocked funds in order that they may be reinvested here.

Mr Howell, are you in fact proposing that the Agence Howell's blocked funds should be employed entirely to finance these splendid schemes of yours?'

Obviously, freeing the hostages would improve Iran's relations with the West, probably leading to the end of Washington's oil embargo, release of blocked funds and perhaps new international credits.

Two years ago, for example, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas temporarily blocked funds to the C.P.B. on the grounds that public broadcasting programs had "a liberal bias."

B6 State lawmakers blocked funds for the Health Department's efforts to enforce new smoking regulations because they believe the rules were adopted illegally by the state's Public Health Council, officials said.

A1 Blocked funds put U.S. role in Seville world fair in doubt A8 Vancouver is fighting the AIDS virus by issuing clean needles to drug addicts who want them.

The movie was filmed in Trinidad and Tobago allowing Huston and Fox to use blocked funds in the UK, receive British film finance and qualify for the Eady Levy.

I might have replied that had I not puzzled them by offering to hand over the Syrian assets of the Agence Howell, we would not have been sitting there discussing what was to become of its blocked funds.

Iraq freed a long-imprisoned British businessman today in return for the unfreezing of blocked funds in London, and the Baghdad Government also agreed to allow the United Nations to continue its humanitarian efforts in the country for another six months.

Some conservative senators, including Senator Bob Kasten, Republican of Wisconsin and a critic of the United Nations, say the President cannot legally make a determination releasing the blocked funds at all while Congress is in recess, as it will be when the Fifth Committee finishes its deliberations late next month.

At length, a Belgian producer agreed to let Robbe-Grillet direct a film from his own screenplay on the condition that the film be shot in Turkey, using "blocked funds" (profits from an earlier film that could not be taken out of the country) owed to Cocinor, the French production company.