: extending or going beyond national boundaries
- transnational corporations
Updated on: 15 Apr 2018
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global warming is a transnational problem that requires a transnational solution
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Brown cast his decision as a welcome infusion of federal support to fight transnational criminal gangs and drug and firearms smugglers.
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Brown cast his decision as a welcome infusion of federal support to fight transnational criminal gangs and drug and firearms smugglers.
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For instance, [Michael] Koch, Laron Williams, and Jason Smith studied how quickly various parliamentary governments lost their majority coalitions after transnational terrorist attacks in a 2012 paper.
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The president regularly mentions the notorious Mara Salvatrucha 13, known as MS-13, the transnational gang, made up largely of Central American youth, to reinforce his immigration policy.
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That is why on my first day in office, President Trump sent me three executive orders: (1) to back the women and men in blue, (2) to reduce crime in America, and (3) to dismantle transnational criminal gangs.
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The transnational street gang MS-13 is known for brutal violence and its crimes include human trafficking and murder.
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Gōken sits in Jedi-like calm at the locus of a nascent transnational subculture: gamers who approach fighting games as martial arts.
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Many cases also involved transnational criminal organizations that defrauded hundreds of thousands of elderly victims, while others involved a single relative or fiduciary who took advantage of an individual victim, the Justice Department noted.
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