For most of the 20th century Turkish authorities were happy to lend their treasures for foreign exhibitions and ignored the provenance of most pieces in Western collections.
In recent years, the Italian state has actively pursued the sale of antiquities illegally looted from Italy's archaeologically rich soil, toughening laws against the plunderers and aggressively pursuing foreign museums with archaeological holdings with iffy provenance in court.
The provenance of these quotes might be foreign journalists – continental players are more comfortable sharing their thoughts with their compatriot writers – and because they are being re-interpreted and re-translated, the player's original meaning can get mashed.
when they had just a sales office in the U.S.; others claimed an American provenance when they were assembled here from foreign parts, like the pool finish that contained Australian sand.
La Baume has bypassed some of the French labeling rules that leave consumers baffled, ignoring the bewildering Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée system, which guarantees the provenance of wines, and markets aggressively to foreign tastes.
Memories are long in the Orient and such provenances, which come as reminders of bygone foreign intrusions, still tend to make Chinese blood boil.
Although the film's provenance and the calamitous distribution climate for foreign-language cinema in America mean that it's destined for eye-blink runs at a handful of art-house theaters, "Climates" isn't difficult or obscure.
About 700 of them, in the estimation of foreign bankers, are bogus banks that exist to launder money of dubious provenance.
A strong foreign contingent included a Soviet-made Trabant, a German-designed D.K.W. of unknown provenance (Argentina and Brazil assembly were possibilities) and a rare Daf sedan from Holland.
Italy has campaigned aggressively in recent years against foreign collectors, both individuals and institutions, that it argues have purchased artifacts with questionable provenances.
