Sentence examples for fundamentally alien from inspiring English sources

Whether native or foreign-born, migrants are fundamentally alien to the community in which they work.

What's more, the image of Japanese culture as fundamentally alien is in a way consistent with how Japan sees itself.

He belonged to no school, but he tentatively explored systems, including serialism, which were fundamentally alien to him.

So as far as I'm concerned" — he pulls out a "World's Best Boss" mug that he bought for himself — "this says 'World's Best Dad.' " This office taps home the point that work is fundamentally alien to the workplace.

The stories of these doomsayers, whose colorful careers entertained and annoyed readers across the political spectrum, challenge the notion that religious faith and the Enlightenment represented fundamentally alien ways of living in and with the world.

It was not until the first Blair government that elected mayors, previously regarded as fundamentally alien to the British tradition of local government, started to take root in this country.

Thus, as rivals in foreign markets, the notion that Chinese SOEs follow rules for transparent conduct in their dealings with foreign governments is fundamentally an alien concept.

Unlike presidential elections, which strike most Afghans as alien and fundamentally suspect, jirgas of all sizes are trusted and utterly familiar institutions.

Separately, in recent days Romney's camp has also expressed high dudgeon about an alleged Obama plot to attack his bio and identity, even though he himself has publicly insinuated in multiple ways that Obama is culturally suspect and unsettlingly alien and fundamentally isn't one of us.

Despite these visions, the flashing lasers and latex aliens, "Star Trek" is fundamentally about two men engaged in a continuing conversation about civilizations and their discontents.

"There are risks that the societal perception of an 'executioner' as being some kind of freak, or alien, or person of some fundamentally undesirable character flaw, will continue to be perpetuated," Thompson said.