Sentence examples for forced foreign from inspiring English sources

China's government wants to develop a strong domestic industry and so has always forced foreign investors to partner with local firms.

He forced foreign merchants to surrender their stocks of opium for destruction and put pressure on them to guarantee that they would cease importing the cargo.

Britain was opposed to an earlier version of the rules backed by France that could have forced foreign funds to register in each member state of the Union.

China, for instance, has forced foreign carmakers to form joint ventures with its domestic firms to build vehicles there as the price of entering the world's biggest market.

In 2008, for example, company inspectors discovered a situation in which a supplier had forced foreign workers to give up their passports to factory managers, effectively limiting their ability to leave their jobs.

For example, he nationalized private pension funds, made banks pay so-called windfall taxes and forced foreign lenders to allow borrowers to repay foreign-currency mortgages at the original, very favorable exchange rates.

A study by Brazil's central bank claims its measures slowed down excessive growth in certain types of credit such as car loans; forced foreign-currency borrowers to lengthen their terms, leaving them less vulnerable to the fickleness of short-term lenders; and reduced banks' derivatives exposure.

In 2012, Putin enacted another contentious law that forced foreign-funded NGOs involved in activities deemed "political in nature" to register as "foreign agents" in Russia.

American regulators are likely soon to force foreign banks to establish fully-capitalised units.

They also force foreign objects into the cabinet to see what will happen.

But forcing foreign creditors to pay for it looks short-sighted.