Sentence examples for foreigner from inspiring English sources

Unlike the Chinese zones, the Sinuiju region would be run by a foreigner, use foreign currencies (American and Chinese), pay no tax to the central government, and have a separate legal system.

For example, in bragging that the defence sector is more willing to accept foreign investment, a salient fact is that no foreigner can have a controlling share of any joint venture in India (since the cap on foreign ownership remains at 49% after local firms lobbied against outsiders).

Outside the foreign ministry, a soldier leaves his post to beg from a foreigner.

And because the book-buying upper-middle class does not trust the entrenched positions of America's ideologues, they are looking for fresh thinking – which a foreigner like Piketty, whose positions are not those of any large American political faction, provides.

The sparkling literary talent Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said: "If I had not grown up in Nigeria, if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I, too, would think Africa was a place of beautiful landscape, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and Aids, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.

I don't want to be a foreigner in my own land.

As recent defections by Ukip's rising stars show even Ukip's supporters are finding harder and harder to stomach the party's relentless and base-less anti-foreigner rhetoric.

In Tokyo's Shin-Okubo neighbourhood, home to one of the largest concentrations of Koreans in Japan, many people say the level of anti-foreigner vitriol on the streets and on the internet is without modern precedent.

A picturesque, foreigner-friendly setting of high-priced London houses, in neighbourhoods where incoming plutocrats rub shoulders with 40-year residents.

Sometimes referendums play up social divisions, or stoke anti-foreigner populism.

Yet today, he says, a bigger problem than anti-foreigner bias is that some provincial courts may favour local firms over outsiders, Chinese or foreign.