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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are foreign from" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly when trying to express that something is different or not native to a particular context.
Example: "The customs of this region are foreign from those of my home country."
Alternatives: "are different from" or "are distinct from".
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Of the 54 now in operation just 15 are foreign - from the US, Germany and Afghanistan.
Many of the companies building windmills around here are foreign, from countries including Denmark and the United States, and do not provide long-term local jobs in the manufacture or maintenance of turbines, Mr. Klosinski said.
The best emerging-market schools are determined to go global (or at least regional) in their own right: CEIBS has increased the proportion of its students who are foreign from 10% in 2002 to 40% in 2009 and is hoping to create an Ivy League for the East.The sudden globalisation of business education has drawbacks.
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The rest are foreign nationals from across the globe.
One is a U.S. citizen and five are foreign nationals from Guatemala and Mexico, including one woman.
A total of 11,000 agriculture, forestry, fishing and construction workers are foreign labourers from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam (9).
About 40% of Angelenos are foreign born -- mostly from Latin America and Asia.
About one-third are foreign students, many recruited from Eastern Europe.
Mr. Ji, deputy foreign minister from 1955 to 1972, was foreign minister from 1972 to 1974.
Straw was foreign secretary from 2001.
Von Ribbentrop was foreign minister from 1938 until the end of the World War II.
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