Sentence examples for of foreign parentage from inspiring English sources

In Sweden as a whole, one in four people is foreign-born or of foreign parentage.

It is a fact that boys of foreign parentage who have no background in many cases attempt to educate themselves beyond their intelligence.

She was twenty-six years old, a former model of foreign parentage (a Moldovan Jewish father and a Spanish mother), and nine months pregnant.

Against the prevailing sentiment of the day, she believed that her job was to give "to the child of foreign parentage a feeling of pride in the beautiful things of the country his parents have left".

Approximately 30percentt of the more than 68 million young adults aged 18 to 34 in the United States today are either foreign born or of foreign parentage.

Finally, we also consider it unlikely that a longer history of captive breeding in the Local population rendered ranched smolts of Local parentage better adapted for ranching performance than smolts of Foreign parentage, for example related to superior homing abilities or ability to overcome in the ocean any deleterious developmental legacy induced in the hatchery.

(The 1970 Census was the last Census to collect data on foreign parentage).

The most immediate cause of the current civil war in Ivory Coast was the exclusion from the 2000 Presidential election of one candidate because of his foreign parentage.

This theme was also adopted by Mr Guei, who had Alassane Ouattara banned from the presidential election in 2000 because of his foreign parentage, and by the only serious contender allowed to run against Mr Guei, Laurent Gbagbo.

If the moon was partly the offspring of a non-Earth body — Theia — there should be chemical fingerprints attesting to the foreign parentage.

In 1996 the government enacted constitutional amendments that barred foreign nationals and those with foreign parentage from running for president, a change that generated heated debate.