Once arriving, they waited hours, navigating a confusing, foreign system.
But rather than promote a formal, foreign system, the coalition might achieve more by incrementally improving these established methods.
Such analysis of a foreign weapon system can prove invaluable in producing systems to defeat it, and intelligence derived from any foreign matériel is of great value in assessing enemy capabilities.
I feared she was entering into a foreign belief system, a foreign language, and (to me) a set of inexplicable rituals — which, of course, she was.
Many French papers have contrived to portray Strauss-Kahn as the victim of a mendacious, money-grabbing woman and a foreign legal system.
Both sides admit there may be political difficulties in using city money to assist a foreign school system, but Mr. Levy emphasizes the benefits.
Zhang Dejiang, who heads the leading group on Hong Kong affairs, said that copying a foreign electoral system could "become a democracy trap … and possibly bring a disastrous result", Ma Fung-kwok, a delegate at Thursday's closed-door meeting, told Reuters.
In the rare case where the preparations for an attack are detected in a foreign computer system, there is continuing debate about whether to embrace the concept of pre-emption, with all of its Bush-era connotations.
Mariella - who, perhaps I should mention, is my wife - discussed a grey area in Foreign Office policy that governs UK prisoners abroad: UK citizens who fall foul of a lack of due process in a foreign legal system are not guaranteed the support of the Foreign Office in tackling such injustices.
Rather, Mariella's focus was on the Foreign Office's inability to intervene every time our citizens are unjustly detained abroad because a foreign judicial system, by any objective international standard, thwarts substantive due process (that is where, inter alia, individuals are tried though there is no case to answer, rules of evidence are ignored, and confessions are extracted via torture etc).
