Sentence examples for foreign notions from inspiring English sources

The Republicans of Texas don't have a lot of time for foreigners like Freud and foreign notions like psychoanalysis, although they do believe in therapy, as long as it's "reparative".

People reacquainted themselves with foreign notions like picnics, short pants and sunblock.

The second standout was Forces of Nature, and the powerful opening section of Abdel R. Salaam's "Vision 5 — A Question of Modesty" looked back at the ways harsh representatives of Christianity and Islam tried to enforce foreign notions of morality as Africans were shipped as slaves to the Americas.

When foreign notions of propriety entered the fray, we lost that sense of freedom with our own bodies.

Quite a foreign notion to many women, but it really works, perhaps better than any other suggestion on this page!

Indeed Asia itself is a western concept: the Chinese word for it, Yazhou, is a coinage translating a foreign notion.

"Inviting alumni in large numbers to actively support the college is a foreign notion," said Mr. Catillaz, the vice president for college advancement.

The story's achievement is in bridging the gap between that innate understanding and the more foreign notion of being forbidden to learn.

Ms. Shapiro's introduction of a foreign story, not to mention what many here see as a foreign notion of accountability, troubles some Cambodians.

To many French people, it's a completely foreign notion that, around the world and throughout history, voting with one's feet has been the most widely available means to vote at all.

The idea was to shift control of our land from the collective to the individual and to teach the Lakota and other Native Americans the foreign notion of ownership.