Sentence examples for foreigners owned from inspiring English sources

In Brazil, one government study estimated that foreigners owned land equivalent to about 20 percent of São Paulo State.

As Treasury data show, at the end of April, foreigners owned more than 46 percent of all Treasury securities held by the public.

By 1862, haole (foreigners) owned 75percentt of Hawaii's land, and a handful of haole companies still control much of it.

Foreigners owned $1.6 trillion in Treasurys as of January, or 37% of the total.

Governments are wary of foreigners owning their media.

Foreigners own an estimated 11 percent of productive land in Argentina, according to the Argentine Agriculture Federation.

Murdoch became a US citizen in 1985 to get around rules banning foreigners owning TV stations.

China announced that it would let foreigners own bigger stakes in its securities firms and promised to limit export subsidies.

American investors are big players in countries such as France, where foreigners own a third of the market.

The rift between Thais and westerners is exacerbated, he says, by foreigners owning so much of Samui.

Then foreigners owning all those Treasuries will demand to be compensated for the currency risk, causing real interest rates to rise.