Sentence examples for measures foreign from inspiring English sources

UNCTAD found an 80% drop between 2012 and 2013 but it measures foreign investment very broadly, to include inter-country transfers within an enterprise.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's newly created inward FDI index measures foreign direct investment relative to a country's share of global GDP, employment and exports.

According to Montessori, children, who are the unhappy victims of adult suppression, have been compelled to adopt defensive measures foreign to their real nature in the struggle to hold their own.

The government defended the measures as necessary to adjust to Hong Kong's economic woes, and stated that even with the measures, foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong were still better paid than foreign domestic helpers working in other Asian countries.

As for the black-market gap (which measures foreign-currency rationing), it may also reflect poor macroeconomic policy and be associated with corruption that could be the real dampener on growth.These are potent criticisms.

Measuring foreign direct investment, particularly in Africa, is difficult, and the numbers can fluctuate widely year to year.

Beyond that, measuring foreign travel, the ownership of a passport or even modest proficiency in a foreign language cannot serve as an indicator of how any member of Congress is likely to vote when called upon to pass judgment on some issue of foreign or national security.

When we present Americans with their scores from the standard questions political scientists use to measure foreign policy attitudes, many of our isolationists dispute the results, taking pains to protest that they are, as one participant put it, "in no way, shape or form an isolationist".

U.S. investors measure foreign stocks against the Morgan Stanley EAFE Index.

To measure foreign sourcing experience, two continuous items (i.e., the number of years the firm has operated with foreign sourcing and the number of countries in which the sourcing activities occur) were adopted from Evans et al. (2008b).

As approached by Chui et al (2014b), this raises difficulties with respect to measuring foreign debt inflows from a country's balance-of-payments standpoint.