Sentence examples for of foreign background from inspiring English sources

With the conspicuous and jaw-breaking exception of Jimmy Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzesinski, Americans of foreign background have always been sensible about changing their names to something easier for the locals to say.

The sample showed a SES-distribution similar to that of the German population [ 31] but the proportion of children of foreign background was significantly lower in our sample than in the German population (13.5% vs. 25.4%) [ 32].

Various awareness campaigns encouraged party-goers and trick-or-treaters to show their Halloween spirit by donning racially and culturally sensitive outfits, condemning costumes depicting members of foreign backgrounds as a form of cultural appropriation.

Malmö has a higher percentage of residents with foreign background than the rest of Sweden: 30% born abroad, 41% with foreign background (20).

Sites differed in the proportion of adolescents with foreign background (χ2 [440]40] = 28.4, p < 0.001), with the highest proportion seen in Geneva, followed by The Hague (Table 2).

From which countries did the parent(s) of the youth with foreign background come from?

The sample is small but nevertheless it is most likely similar to long-term sick listed patients in primary health care centres in Sweden, except for the loss of sick-listed with foreign background.

In a statement, Eurostat said: "Data on foreign citizens provide useful information on the part of the population with a foreign background.

Interviews were performed face-to-face by interviewers with a foreign background, most of them cultural facilitators who had undergone specific training.

The novelty of this marker with respect to other existing compound genetic markers (SNP STR for example) is the use of extended sequence polymorphisms (3 15 bp of the DIP), which allow the sensitive and specific amplification of the minor DNA contributor in the presence of large quantities of foreign DNA background.

Some measures, like the home care allowance Sweden and Norway pay stay-at-home parents who opt out of the day care system, have often only reinforced the stigma attached to housewives: concerns that this allowance, popular with working-class and immigrant families, hampers social mobility by keeping children of poor and foreign backgrounds out of socializing day care have made it controversial.