Sentence examples for long-standing foreign from inspiring English sources

As a long-standing foreign resident, I have to say that describing Tashkent as joyless ignores reality.Ronald KennedieTashkentLights, camera, privatisationSIR – The most important factor in the renaissance of the Mexican film industry is that the government privatised the industry a decade ago ("The Mexicans are coming!", October 5th).

Mr Modi has pursued a more strident foreign policy since coming to power a year ago, strengthening ties with the US and abandoning his country's long-standing foreign policy of non-alignment.

Other members of his administration may be able to shape his thinking so that it aligns more closely with the long-standing, bipartisan foreign policy consensus in the United States, especially when it comes to NATO.

Unlike Clinton, Kerry arrived in the job after decades of foreign-policy experience in the Senate, and, like Biden, he maintained long-standing relationships with foreign leaders.

She has inevitably encountered resistance, given the number of fingers in the foreign-policy pie including those of a vice-president, Joe Biden, with a long-standing interest in foreign affairs.

But many are long-standing bugbears of foreign investors, and China has been dragging its heels on the way to confronting them for years now.

Last year, Vietnam also loosened its long-standing restrictions on foreign ownership of companies and property in the country – adopting new policies to boost overseas investment in real estate that could further fuel these trends.

There are reports that the industry ministry is preparing a fresh push to restructure Chinese steelmaking by making it easier for troubled mills to go bust.A sign of the central government's desire for a shakeout is its recent decision to end a long-standing ban on foreign investors owning majority stakes in local steel firms.

In 1949, Mikoyan lost his long-standing post of foreign trade minister.

Clearly, the goal of the Saudi Kingdom is to snuff out emerging oil producers in the United States, where new technologies and oil discoveries have allowed private producers to add needed jobs while reducing long-standing dependency on foreign sources of oil.

London has kept its long-standing dominance of foreign-exchange trading; its share of the market for over-the-counter derivatives has increased from 27% in 1995 to 43% in 2004.