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Example sentences for "foreign country"

  • Article 17 of this law asserts that (German) citizenship is lost through the acquiring of citizenship in a foreign country.

  • If they are held to be citizens of a foreign country, to wit, of South Carolina, or of the Confederate States, then they fall back under the eighth section of the Act, as having committed piracy under that section.

  • Further, a Sovereign staying in a foreign country must be allowed to perform all his own governmental acts and functions, except when his country is at war with a third State and the State in which he is staying remains neutral.

  • But the case may happen that a monarch is travelling in a foreign country incognito without the latter's Government having the slightest knowledge thereof.

  • But Prince Albert carried with him--to remain in his near neighbourhood--two old allies, whose familiar faces would be doubly welcome in a foreign country.

  • Such calumnies are easy to utter but hard to refute in a foreign country.

  • Sire, I should have contained myself, though if a noble Venetian were to insult me in a foreign country he would have to give me satisfaction.

  • I thought it was absurd, but I was in a foreign country, and I said nothing.

  • In the spring of 1906 his brother and family came to make us a short visit before their departure from the homeland as missionaries to a foreign country.

  • The Lord had revealed to my mother the evening of my conversion that I should preach the gospel, but she did not think that my field of labor would be in a foreign country.

  • For this he himself had to fly to a foreign country, where he finally died miserably in jail.

  • A little while before this story began, Oliver's father had been obliged to go on a trip to a foreign country, where he died very suddenly.

  • He knew all about his death in a foreign country, and had watched his older son's career of shame with sorrow.

  • It perished with the War of Independence; it was no longer possible when the Colonies had become not only a foreign country, but a country bitterly hostile.

  • The visitors to a museum are like travellers in a foreign country, of whom Emerson truly says that when they leave it they take nothing away but what they brought with them.

  • Who is likely to invite a stranger from a foreign country, unless it be one of those who can do public service as a seer, a healer of hurts, a carpenter, or a bard who can charm us with his singing?

  • Some day or other I will put you on board ship and take you to a foreign country, where I can sell you and pocket the money you will fetch.

  • At least I do not think it a prudent or a sensible thing for a guest to challenge his host's family at any game, especially when he is in a foreign country.

  • Remember we are in a foreign country, and there is no question of a common law crime: Vinson is not accused of murder, simply of treason.

  • He told her that some day she would have to go to a foreign country to take possession of this fortune--the baron did not say where.

  • Directly we were in a foreign country, Alfred's attitude towards me changed: he was no longer the friend, he was the master.

  • I will give you more money when you start off, because I am going to send you to a foreign country.

  • In a foreign country, knowing no one, we were thrown upon each other for amusement, and we were not long in finding it.

  • I would advise every one, in entering a foreign country, to remember that he cannot buy everything, however cheap it may appear.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clock before; foreign assistance; foreign bodies; foreign capital; foreign court; foreign goods; foreign government; foreign grain; foreign intervention; foreign investment; foreign lands; foreign ministers; foreign mission; foreign missionary; foreign origin; foreign politics; foreign trade; foreign troops; foreign wars; foreign yoke; like herself; lovely maiden; material wealth; people began; rare intervals; yellow lion