Sentence examples for regarding a foreign from inspiring English sources

And in 2013 the court ruled in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, regarding a foreign petroleum corporation's alleged complicity in human rights abuses in Nigeria, that the ATCA generally does not apply to torts committed in foreign countries though exceptions are possible in cases "where the claims touch and concern the territory of the United States" with "sufficient force".

The Holy Grail in transplantation is a breakthrough that would induce the body to regard a foreign organ as its own.

Yet the invasion of Iraq is widely regarded as a foreign policy disaster.

For all of them, this exile to what they regard as a foreign land resonates with their earlier uprooting, when they fled the brutal Khmer Rouge, under whose rule in the late 1970's more than a million people died.

The country has been rapidly losing its attachment to the human-powered two-wheeler that it first glimpsed in the late nineteenth century and regarded as a "foreign horse" or a "little mule that you drive by the ears".

It was passed in the political turmoil that followed the so-called glorious revolution of 1688, during which the last Catholic king, James II, fled the country, and was aimed at safeguarding the Protestant succession and constitutional parliamentary settlement from what was regarded as a foreign despotism.

The Indian religion was at first regarded as a foreign variety of Daoism; the particular Buddhist texts chosen to be translated during the Han period reveal the Daoist preoccupation of the earliest converts with rules of conduct and techniques of meditation.

Sue argued that, since Australia was now an independent nation, the United Kingdom should properly be regarded as a foreign power.

The rule is based on the principle that people may live in the UK but regard a foreign country as their true home.

It's disheartening when a newly elected president doesn't share your opinions regarding healthcare, foreign policy or a host of other issues.

The state department now regards cybersecurity "as a foreign policy priority", and Obama administration officials insist "the laws of conflict apply to cyberspace".