Sentence examples for foreign villagers from inspiring English sources

But the enthusiasm of foreign villagers for the model could wither without lashings of their own governments' support.

Gandhi made homespun cotton a symbol of India's economic independence from foreign domination, exhorting villagers to spin their own cloth rather than buy it from Britain, India's colonial ruler.

BILIN, West Bank — Every Friday for the past four and a half years, several hundred demonstrators — Palestinian villagers, foreign volunteers and Israeli activists — have walked in unison to the Israeli barrier separating this tiny village from the burgeoning settlement of Modiin Illit, part of which is built on the village's land.

With long nose, white complexion, and a foreign language, the villagers suspected that the person was some kind of spirit or forest fairy.

In the Jiangxi case, both local and foreign media reported that villagers reached by telephone insisted that their children were forced to make fireworks at the school.

At Kathmandu airport, flights arrived with emergency aid and helicopters brought in both foreign trekkers and local villagers from quake-struck areas.

American officials said that they had struck a Taliban and Al Qaeda compound, but villagers told foreign news agencies that many civilians had been killed.

In the process, their foreign benefactors hope, the villagers will acquire the skills needed to build not only businesses but also a society free of the old totalitarian ways.

Villagers have attacked foreign health workers.

The campaign against Guinea worm is succeeding because — unlike many foreign aid projects — it puts villagers themselves in charge.

Eager to aid the emperor, the brave Chinese villagers repeatedly shouted, "Kill the foreign devils!