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Example sentences for "foreign countries"

  • In Sistan itself wheat and oats are plentiful, but their export to foreign countries is not permitted.

  • The policy of drift is merely caused by our absolute ignorance of foreign countries.

  • So that the division of the advantage becomes more and more favourable to a country, in proportion as the demand for its commodities increases in foreign countries.

  • It therefore carries on the trade with less advantage, in consequence of the obligations to which it is subject towards persons resident in foreign countries.

  • This would raise, in foreign countries, the price of everything which we import from thence: while our incomes, being reduced in money value, would render us less able to buy those articles even if they had not risen.

  • The last news from Pisa that had appealed to her sympathies was the news of the Countess d'Ascoli's death, and of Fabio's departure to travel in foreign countries.

  • He and his brothers also engaged in the weaving industry, but as their father's affairs were anything but flourishing, the sons decided to seek a living in foreign countries.

  • Polo had noticed that Kublai Khan liked to hear curious and extraordinary accounts from foreign countries, and he therefore treasured up in his memory all he saw and experienced in order to relate it to the Emperor on his return.

  • A third of its inhabitants have been born in foreign countries.

  • At present American shipping is under certain great disadvantages when put in competition with the shipping of foreign countries.

  • Furthermore, the certificates of naturalization issued by the courts differ widely in wording and appearance, and when they are brought into use in foreign countries, are frequently subject to suspicion.

  • This is the great secret of our success in competition with the labor of foreign countries.

  • They are to be found in the internal state of the empire, and in the relations which it holds to foreign countries.

  • Nor could all the efforts of all the navies of the world prevent privateers from preying upon our commerce, as they are to be commissioned in foreign countries, and will sail from the ports of those countries.

  • The greatest danger to the emancipation project proceeds from the side of foreign countries.

  • The excellent German Consular system, which has done so much to help German trade invaders in foreign countries, is openly a spy bureau, and is provided in almost every important centre with its own secret service fund.

  • The system of "sowing" Germans in foreign countries, as I have heard it called in Germany, and getting them naturalised, was begun by Prussia before the war of 1866 against Austria.

  • When necessary, it specially transmits speeches by telegram and wireless to foreign countries if it thinks those speeches will help German propaganda.

  • Quietly but surely the Agricultural Bureau is working a great national good, and if liberally supported the more widely its influence will be extended and the less dependent we shall be upon the products of foreign countries.

  • Congress from the beginning of the Government has wisely made provision for the relief of distressed seamen in foreign countries.

  • It is well known that such citizens resort to foreign countries in great numbers.

  • I cannot leave this subject without emphasizing the necessity of such legislation as will make possible and convenient the establishment of American banks and branches of American banks in foreign countries.

  • China as may be financed by foreign countries, was suggested on a broader scale by the Secretary of State in a proposal for internationalization and commercial neutralization of all the railways of Manchuria.

  • To-day, more than ever before, American capital is seeking investment in foreign countries, and American products are more and more generally seeking foreign markets.

  • Now that London is the clearing-house to foreign countries, London has a new liability to foreign countries.

  • The Bedouins do not follow this practice; but the Mekkawys pride themselves in the distinction, which precludes the other inhabitants of the Hedjaz from claiming, in foreign countries, the honour of being born in the holy cities.

  • Arabs dislike them, and they are only used by those who have acquired the relish in foreign countries.

  • There may be opposition in the internal affairs, but a paper which in Prussia takes part against the policy of the King on behalf of foreign countries, must be regarded as dishonoured and treated as such.

  • They formed an exclusive caste; they seldom left their homes; they were little known in the south of Germany or in foreign countries; they seldom married outside their own ranks.

  • What do we think of politicians who try to introduce among us the institutions and the faults of foreign countries?

  • To corroborate my doctrine I said, 'Why, look at the revolutions in foreign countries,' meaning of course France and Belgium.

  • Constitution of the United States, and to prohibit the owning or dealing in slaves by American citizens in foreign countries.

  • It may name a hundred correspondents, taken from among the learned men of the nation, and those of foreign countries.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    foreign affairs; foreign authors; foreign bodies; foreign born; foreign capital; foreign coin; foreign commodities; foreign country; foreign courts; foreign enemy; foreign governments; foreign immigration; foreign influences; foreign intercourse; foreign missionary; foreign nations; foreign origin; foreign politics; foreign prince; foreign princes; foreign trade; foreign troops; its body; motor cars; thirteen thousand; who had always been