Sentence examples for even though the foreign from inspiring English sources

He said oil company Slavneft (on whose board Summers sits), had been ordered to cancel an order for foreign equipment in favor of a domestic supplier, even though the foreign equipment was clearly superior.

In 2009, Areva, the state-controlled French nuclear company, sold its electrical grid business to a group of French companies rather than to General Electric of the United States and Toshiba of Japan, even though the foreign companies had offered sweeter deals.

Biomaterial surface properties play an important role in modulating the foreign body reaction in the first two to four weeks following implantation of a medical device, even though the foreign body reaction at the tissue/material interface is present for the in vivo lifetime of the medical device.

Yet Chancellor Angela Merkel, so far, has not put forward a German for either post, even though the former foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, would be a popular choice among the member states to lead foreign policy.

President Bush refused to declassify the 28-page redaction about the Saudi government's role in financing the hijackings, even though the Saudi foreign minister flew to the U.S. to ask the president to do that.

In 2009 Russians in Crimea were issued Russian passports, and even though the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko made a stink, there hasn't been an effort to populate Crimea with Ukrainians to counteract the influx of Russians.

These diplomatic messages are still known as cables, even though, as the Guardian explains, our foreign outposts have left behind transoceanic telegraph cables for the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, which the military uses for command and control.

That this should happen under a French single-market commissioner, Michel Barnier, has intensified the perceived threat, even though the former French foreign minister sees himself as an anglophile and his director-general is British.

Even though the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan remained deeply unpopular, many Afghans feared that a sudden withdrawal would allow the country to slip into civil war or chaos.

The US, however, believes it operates its drone campaign with some degree of official consent from the Pakistani government, even though the country's foreign ministry often lodges a diplomatic complaint after each strike.

Even though the deportation of foreign nationals blocked under European legislation forms a small proportion of those highlighted by the NAO, they have commanded a vast amount of media coverage.