Sentence examples for contrary to foreign from inspiring English sources

The government has retained ownership of key companies in the communications, energy, finance, resources, and media sectors, and contrary to foreign investors' hopes, it has no intention of letting go of them in the near future.

Contrary to foreign language speaking immigrant students, however, the change in the composition of schools did not led to a sizeable improvement of schooling results for native students as it is mainly the foreign language speaking students themselves that suffer first from high levels of concentrations of foreign language speaking students in a school (see e.g. Coradi Vellacott et al., 2003).

They should not pursue policies which run contrary to UK foreign policy".

Determined to find new reserves, Tillerson demonstrated on several occasions that he was willing to engage in deals that were contrary to the foreign policy of the United States.

But both he and Mr. Peres say that contrary to some foreign news reports, they are not looking for an excuse to deliver a knockout blow against Mr. Arafat and his authority.

There is a second reason why one cannot presume that Mrs. Clinton's email practice would've been disapproved as contrary to the foreign affairs regulations.

DEADLOCK IN PEKING Chinese Insist Upon Merger of Issues Contrary to the Plan of Foreign Envoys.

Also, contrary to common belief, long‐term foreign gene expression from naked plasmid DNA (pDNA) is possible even without chromosome integration if the target cell is postmitotic (as in muscle) or slowly mitotic (as in hepatocytes) and if an immune reaction against the foreign protein is not generated (Herweijer et al., 2001; Miao et al., 2000; Wolff et al., 1992; Zhang et al., 2004).

Contrary to the construction of foreign brides as passport dependents who have to rely on their husbands and who lack economic skills and independence, most informants contributed equally or even more to family incomes compared to their husbands.

THE Obama administration has questioned the Rudd government's plan to introduce an internet filter, saying it runs contrary to the US's foreign policy of encouraging an open internet to spread economic growth and global security.

He tried to negotiate with the Guangzhou authorities on equal footing, but the latter took his behaviour as contrary to the established Sino-foreign intercourse.