Sentence examples for were foreign countries from inspiring English sources

We wouldn't have most of Graham Greene's novels, many of which are set in what for the author were foreign countries, and which therefore have Real Foreigners in them, who speak and act like foreigners, too.

These were run as though they were foreign countries, each requiring a separate visa.

It is Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island that were foreign countries to her.

But security forces have struggled to make much of a dent in the pervasive lawlessness in Sinai, where Bedouin residents still speak of Cairo or even Egypt as if they were foreign countries.

"Well, it certainly does," Ms. Palin said, "because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, they're in the state that I am the executive of".

Dig out your passport and check the expiration date well ahead of traveling to a foreign country (and remember that Canada and Mexico are foreign countries).

He said: "Scotland will not be a foreign country after independence, any more than Ireland, Northern Ireland, England or Wales could ever be foreign countries to Scotland.

Well, it certainly does (enhance international experience) because our our next door neighbors are foreign countries.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our our next door neighbors are foreign countries.

So, she repeats it again: "Well, it certainly does because our next door neighbors are foreign countries, they're in the state that I am the executive of".

Little of this is foreign to countries who struggle with democracy.