While in Whistler, sales have slowed, in part because the pool of U.S. buyers, traditionally the dominant foreign presence at the resort, has shrunk and other foreign investors have not picked up the slack.
Americans, far and away the dominant foreign investors in Japan -- they accounted for 190.9 billion yen of the 981.2 billion yen ($9.2 billion) in foreign direct investment in the six months ended in September -- have been buying the hotels, apartments, resorts and golf courses because they are for sale, they are cheap and the demographics are in their favor.
Before, Russian was the dominant foreign language here".
"English has become the dominant foreign language," Yasin said.
Foreign brands remained dominant at the time of China's WTO entry.
BMW, by contrast, sold 18,680 cars in China, and Volkswagen, long the dominant foreign carmaker in China, sold 633,000.
By supporting the Taliban, Pakistan thought to solidify its position as the dominant foreign power in Afghanistan.
The mailings, which went out this week, are also translated into Cantonese, Spanish, Haitian Creole and Russian, the dominant foreign languages among the city's 1.1 million schoolchildren.
Membership in foreign unions, once dominant in the Canadian Labor Congress, has fallen to about 30percentt, "and I believe that in time they will all change over," Mr. Hargrove said.
On Thursday, China, the dominant foreign player in Sudan's oil industry, voiced concern over the tensions and urged both sides to stop fighting.
