Sentence examples for picking foreign from inspiring English sources

"The Lunchbox," a romantic story set in Mumbai, had won so much praise on the festival circuit that its submission was considered a foregone conclusion — an impression that was heightened when Sony Pictures Classics, which has an impressive track record in picking foreign language Oscar winners, acquired distribution rights.

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In the latest New York Times-CBS News poll, only 4 percent of Americans picked foreign policy as their top election concern.

And we're more likely to pick foreign aid as a leading expense than state pensions, on which we spend 9-10 timoremore.

Now that their opposition has helped drive gas prices to record levels, I ask them to reconsider their positions". Obama is scheduled to hold his first meeting later today in Washington with a working group on national security, a group of advisers that will meet regularly until the election and will form a pool from which he can pick foreign specialists for his administration.

The committee that chooses French films is unknown, she said, and the committee that picks foreign films is dominated by Fremaux, the festival artistic director.

In a telephone interview from Belgium before heading to Los Angeles for the Golden Globes this weekend, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 60, and Luc Dardenne, 57, who are the subject of a retrospective at the IFC Center in New York beginning this weekend, talked about their film, the vagaries of competing for film prizes and whether the Academy should actually pick foreign-language submissions.

Pakistani officials said radio monitors listening to the fighters were picking up foreign languages, but also Pashto.

Yet he has ended up picking the foreign bit of the national-greatness agenda, if not the domestic part.That is a strength and a weakness.

"I know picking a foreign language poem will leave some readers standing on the sidelines muttering," he says, "but it could be worth it".

Writing online in the journal Cerebral Cortex, researchers said people who had a larger left Heschl's gyrus seemed to have an easier time picking up foreign languages.