Sentence examples for majority of foreigners from inspiring English sources

Close to 20percentt of Vienna's population of 1.8 million is foreign, and some districts have a clear majority of foreigners.

The proposals would expand that ban to apply to any domestic corporation with at least 20 percent foreign ownership, any corporation whose board included a majority of foreigners, or any corporation where ultimate control of political decision-making was exercised by a foreign company or government.

The majority of foreigners working in Yemen's oil sector in Shabwa province were evacuated on Sunday.

While no American team yet matches Manchester United or A.C. Milan of soccer in fielding a majority of foreigners, the N.B.A. is catching up.

Such statistics are credited with helping to boost average per-room prices throughout the capital by 27percentt last year — to just over $88,000 — even though the majority of foreigners remain concentrated in several city-center neighborhoods.

Real estate agents' fees are paid by the seller and typically range from 3to5percentent, Mr. Deggin said; mortgages are uncommon, and a majority of foreigners pay in cash.

In an oblique reference to the Bush administration's worry that Al Qaeda is planning a major attack from sanctuaries in the tribal areas, Mr. Gilani said, "The majority of these foreigners are hiding in the tribal areas and their presence raises the specter of another 9/11".

Alen Moshkovich, a sales agent with Douglas Elliman Real Estate, says the vast majority of the foreigners he works with — most recently buyers from Brazil, Russia, China, Venezuela and Israel — continue to pay in cash.

The majority of visitors are foreigners.

Through all its convulsions, the peace process, inaugurated in Oslo in 1993, was believed by the majority of locals and foreigners to be an inexorable process.

Hundreds of foreigners, a majority of them French, have taken refuge in a French military camp after violent looting broke out in the Deux Plateaux suburb.