Sentence examples for foreign societies from inspiring English sources

Honours began to come to him honorary degrees, memberships in foreign societies, and medals.

"We are an insular people, and we have a tendency to dismiss foreign societies as strange and difficult to comprehend".

For his discovery of radioactivity, Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with the Curies; he was also honoured with other medals and memberships in foreign societies.

North Korea, sealed off from the world in a hermit-like state, needed its agents trained in the ways of foreign societies to be able to assimilate with those societies and pass unnoticed.

Oh, and another reason to cultivate spies who really know foreign societies, rather than dilettantes who get excited at the first gadget they find: As Sheryl and I discussed our plans to release disinformation to the Chinese, a friend arrived at the front door, and we learned the colloquial meaning of "electric sound-carrying device".

The U.S. has learned at great cost that it can't remake foreign societies.

We soon forget their vices because essentially they are ordinary folks trying to survive in a harsh, foreign society that is intent on suppressing them.

Kathriel's dilemma is not unlike that of Ms Sabbah: to escape the strictures of his community he has to surrender his identity in a foreign society.

They learned the ways of a foreign society, and they waged their battle according to those foreign rules and with those foreign weapons, launching petitions and protests, and engaging media and lawyers.

You must be able to negotiate, to win the confidence of the powerful and influence them, to understand what makes a foreign society tick, to analyse information and report it accurately and quickly, including what your own government does not want to hear; you need "a quick mind, a hard head, a strong stomach, a warm smile and a cold eye".

Recent cautionary examples are NOAEL for 'No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level' and REACH TGD for 'Technical Guidance Document in the EU regulatory framework for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals.' Many curious people, who dare to cross the border to a foreign society of any kind, may be shocked, disgruntled, or bored by their new experience.