Sentence examples for foreign stint from inspiring English sources

Mr. Immelt, who never did a foreign stint himself, can easily picture that.

Refreshingly, McManaman, who was affectionately dubbed "El Macca" in Spain, embraced Madrid life and his successes – eight trophies, including two European Cups – make his the most successful foreign stint of any English player since Gary Lineker became the darling child of Barcelona at the end of the 1980s.

By the time he returned to the U.S. from his second foreign stint, Burbank was intent on becoming a professional investor.

The French monthly Le Monde Diplomatique and the Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List reported that his foreign stints included training paramilitary squads in the early 1980's during insurgent wars in Argentina and Guatemala.

Foreign stints have taken him across Africa and into Japan, where he searched for waterlogged WWII bombs along the coastline.

IN A quaint tradition the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing used to mark the end of foreign correspondents' stints in China with a gift.

Perhaps most significantly for a foreigner contemplating a research stint in a foreign country, it is an established fact that most Dutch people speak English, the lingua franca of global science, and that one could in all likelihood complete an entire PhD or postdoc without bothering to learn the local language.

His stint as foreign secretary proper after 1997 was typically nerve-wracking.

His CV includes travel documentaries, a landmark series looking at some of the stranger aspects of foreign TV and a stint as the television critic of The Observer.

An appointed job, involving a stint in foreign policy, might position him to be a secretary of state or attorney-general.

He emphasised that his ship was optimised for engaging submarines, and added that his crew had successfully tracked several foreign submarines during its stint in the eastern Mediterranean.