Sentence examples for foreign backgrounds from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Some measures, like the home care allowance Sweden and Norway pay stay-at-home parents who opt out of the day care system, have often only reinforced the stigma attached to housewives: concerns that this allowance, popular with working-class and immigrant families, hampers social mobility by keeping children of poor and foreign backgrounds out of socializing day care have made it controversial.

I spoke to Dutch people with foreign backgrounds who've hidden food in their luggage just like my dad did, and asked whether they narrowly cleared customs or were caught red-handed.

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

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.

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.

"The police did not pursue the cases because they have this idea that when it comes to Germans with a foreign background, the reasons for the killings are linked, for instance, to criminal gangs," said Kenan Kolat, chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany.

If both parents were born outside of Europe, they were classified as having TC-parents (foreign background, parents from third country), otherwise as EU-parents (foreign background, parents from Europe).