Sentence examples for foreign proprietors from inspiring English sources

It is ironic that so often media campaigns such as these have emanated from newspapers owned by foreign proprietors.

And, although the play attacks the liberal left, it has no answer to how they could have resisted invasive foreign proprietors.

Resourceful politicians then persuaded the federal government to make concessions that enabled the province to purchase the lands still held by foreign proprietors and resell them to resident farmers, to assume the debt of the island railway, and to obtain assurance of continuous communication with the mainland.

He could see that his high-octane circus, increasingly overseen by a rolling cast of foreign proprietors, from US sports franchise owners to those using football as an arm of their nation-building ambition, was philosophically at odds with the very idea of Brexit.

In May, he completed a deal that made him the principal owner of the New Jersey Nets and the first foreign proprietor of a National Basketball Association team.

The challenge to Sherlock's loyalty and his patriotism came in the form of Charles Augustus Magnussen, a foreign newspaper proprietor-cum-master blackmailer who had the audacity to insult the English while urinating in Sherlock's fireplace.

For what it's worth, it leaves President Obama as the sole proprietor of the foreign policy limelight.

There are the proprietors, people like Charles M. Sennott, a foreign correspondent who took a Boston Globe buyout and became a founder and an executive editor of GlobalPost, or Alex Balk, Choire Sicha and David Cho, who were cut loose by Radar, a dying magazine, and decided to start the Awl, a smart and idiosyncratic commentary site.

Part of the brilliance behind this heady private/public blend is that Sir Hallam Holland, the dapper new proprietor (Ed Stoppard), is in the foreign office under Anthony Eden Anthony Calff).

A passage from my old Lonely Planet "Thailand" is illustrative: Recently, when staying in Phuket for an extended period (Kata-Karon-Naiharn area), I talked with a few Thai bungalow/restaurant proprietors who said that nudity on the beaches was what bothered them most about foreign travellers.

Among 417 patients (87.60%) with occupational injures (injuries at work), 32 (6.72%) worked for state-owned enterprises, 30 (6.30%) worked for wholly foreign-owned or joint-venture enterprises, and 355 (74.58%) were employees of private enterprises and sole proprietors.