Sentence examples for foreign background from inspiring English sources

When did you come here?" she asked, interested in Leonie's foreign background, but doubtful about mentioning it.

Commerce officials now say they wish a foreign background check had been done, even though it was not required.

Some 43% of Malmö's 317,000-strong population now have a foreign background, with the 40,000 Iraqi-born citizens and their descendants forming the largest single group.

In a statement, Eurostat said: "Data on foreign citizens provide useful information on the part of the population with a foreign background.

Besides portraying her warnings about sectarianism as exaggerated, Mrs. Gandhi's rivals are likely to use her foreign background against her, although she became an Indian citizen in 1986.

With the conspicuous and jaw-breaking exception of Jimmy Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzesinski, Americans of foreign background have always been sensible about changing their names to something easier for the locals to say.

It also tries to preserve the native languages of children from foreign backgrounds, not eradicate them.

The al-Nusra Front has a strength of up to 10,000 fighters with mostly foreign backgrounds.

"Kids with foreign backgrounds, for their first thirty years, they want to accomplish becoming part of American culture.

Many reasons for discharges are connected to their foreign backgrounds — which the Pentagon desired to harness in the first place.

Thomas de Maizière, the interior minister, and Albert Schmidt, president of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, said the new measures would include hiring teachers with foreign backgrounds in order to reduce the number of children from immigrant families dropping out of schools.