Sentence examples for wholly foreign to from inspiring English sources

Such imperialism is wholly foreign to our ideals of democracy and freedom," he said.

There is one aspect of Burton's film which is wholly foreign to the book.

After forty years in the academy, Brodhead, on his first day in the new job, was facing a crisis wholly foreign to him.

Though only a couple of decades have passed since her parents left Algeria for France, the country of her ancestors is wholly foreign to her.

The agency could have invoked its power of "special inspections," but this would have constituted an act of confrontation wholly foreign to the I.A.E.A.'s nature.

The notion that the state should intervene to ensure that no citizen has more influence than any other citizen is pernicious and, as the Supreme Court noted in 1976 in Buckley v. Valeo, "wholly foreign" to our values and history.

It was a form of worship that, to an outsider, could seem so wholly foreign as to be impenetrable, with its candles and censers, the processions of robed priests and acolytes, and the recitations of ancient rites that the initiated followed in a Book of Common Prayer.

China granted Citibank rights to offer banking services to local Chinese residents and companies, making it the first wholly foreign-owned bank to gain access to the country's $120 billion in individual and corporate foreign-exchange savings.

Government regulations effectively limit wholly foreign-made films to 20 titles a year, roughly equal to the number of monthly domestic releases.

His presidency might just help to dispel the popular conception that the UK is being told what to do by a wholly foreign court.

The next steps in any conversation regarding a patient's wishes may then be less overwhelming to the surrogates because the concepts will not be wholly foreign.