Sentences with phrase «in foreign lands»

Sometimes we doubt just why our men are dying in foreign lands.

I had to drive over the Bridge (additional mild resentment, this time about travelling to foreign lands) for a Thai stir - fry (in foreign lands, it's polite to eat the native cuisine) with my lovely, working - mum friend.

That the politburo - style committees favored in foreign lands let people settle in flood plains without paying for what they use, in effect subsidizing folly, while all they do about it is build the same dams and reservoirs that have failed time and again in the past, just tells us how weak the communist way of thinking is.

It's neither inspirational, nor innovative to fan the flames of insurgency and terrorism in foreign lands by having a massive spend on military action while telling everyone at home to tighten their belts and become entrepreneurs and innovators while they're doing it.»

When you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone else.

The hand - held Leica allowed him ease of movement while attracting minimal notice as he wandered in foreign lands, taking images that matched his bohemian spontaneity with his painterly sense of composition.

As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Peter Doig entrances with painting that combines traditional skills and a contemporary world view in No Foreign Lands at the Scottish National Gallery (until 3 Nov).

Like weeds, immigrants seek to settle in foreign lands where they are often rejected, and yet they resist the sometimes unfriendly and unfavorable environment as they replant their own roots.

Of course, just because he's in foreign lands, that doesn't mean he won't be making use of the same pressing, bluffing and «OBJECTION!»

The travel blog portion of the blogging website helps you prepare for a trip, get inspired for your next vacation or learn about the best places to visit in foreign lands.

Another reason is that foreign investments trigger a significant tax hit, so a US stock X with 5 % ROI is better than foreign stock Y with 7 %, because of the tax «punishment» the US Congress enacts on investments in foreign lands.

It's a measure of how multinational companies go about their business in foreign lands.

It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.

These are stories of people at a crossroads, mainly women and set in foreign lands.

It's a nifty set - up, reversing the fish - out - of - water scenario of so many movies that drop Westerners in foreign lands.

The clause, which applies to overseas groups (and arguably to domestic organizations working in foreign lands), set off a furious debate on free speech that came to a head this year.

Yet, what we get to hear from the President is noise in foreign lands about non-existing fight against corruption.

This kind of thing is not new in history, but let's be blunt and say it hearkens back to tyrants in foreign lands, rather than draw from the best examples in our own American life.

There are many people in foreign lands that benefit from your advocacy.

The Italian word oriundo refers to Italians born in foreign lands.

Hi Phils, there are so many different Indian spice mixes, and even more mixes created by immigrant Indians in foreign lands.

In case one assumes that all the many parsons here and in foreign lands who deliver and write sermons are believing Christians, how can it be explained that one never hears or reads a prayer which in our time especially is so pertinent: «God in heaven, I thank Thee that Thou hast not required it of man that he should comprehend Christianity; for if that were required, I should be of all men the most miserable.

Entire tribes of natives in foreign lands were converted by force to christianity, and their precious cultures were destroyed, in the name of the god of love; not a history of love at all, would you say?

From missionaries in foreign lands, from Christians scorned by their own kinsmen in non-Christian areas, from loyal churchmen persecuted by totalitarian governments come declarations of Christ's blessing and Christ's love.

Usually governments interested themselves in the personal safety of missionaries in foreign lands and insisted that these emissaries of the churches be given their rights under the treaties, but they did this as they would for any of their citizens, regardless of occupation.

When we begin to tip toe around who can use the first ammendment for fear of offending radicals in foreign lands how long will it be before the jeans worn by our women come under fire.

(per household) As nationalized peoples suffering from obesity epidemics and drug dependancies cry about these things to the very leaders who are carrying out these things, those who strive to be like Christ are happy that ENRON stole your money to built electric powerplants providing electricity to millions of decent people in foreign lands who can now provide for their families without government assistance or crooked activities.

The fresh life in the foreign mission movement had consequences for religious life not only in foreign lands but also in America.

He had every right and reason to walk right past us to the calm and quiet of his apartments, but he knew it was his sacred duty to make a gift of himself to us as much as to the crowds that greeted him in foreign lands...»

Today, fundamentalists and evangelicals (including Pentecostals) constitute approximately 90 percent of all Protestant missionaries working in foreign lands.

Stopped killing women and children in foreign lands.

Mission studies must not limit itself to discussing those who sent missionaries, detailing missionary labors in foreign lands and exploring the conceptual frameworks that guided them.

And ever - increasing numbers of converts made in foreign lands by that portion of the church's 25,300 - member full - time missionary staff stationed outside the U.S. seem to many Mormons to presage a time when their church will be the church universal.

Parallels with those who leave their own countries to live in foreign lands seem obvious: I just did a little post on this phenomena — «The Awkward Unchurched»

To be sure, from the days of the Exile on, the majority of Jews lived not in Palestine but in foreign lands, where they were played upon by alien customs and ideas, and in such a situation continued fealty to the ancestral faith was far more a matter of individual choice than it was in the homeland.

As with famines in foreign lands, it's important to understand: It's not an act of nature or God — this fiasco is manmade from start to finish.

In a chapter about abortion, for instance, she speaks to the horrific experiences of women in foreign lands due to inopportune pregnancies.

one has to make a distinction between Muslims in Islamic lands and Muslims in Foreign lands.

In both, Mycoskie speaks in voiceover while scenes roll of him alone on the beach; bumping along roads in foreign lands; surrounded by children.

The latest craze of fraudulent exaggeration allows you to buy bots to tweet your site and acquire fake robotic followers to build up your alleged «audience,» a service provided by shady scumbags in foreign lands.

To extract maximum benefit from time in a foreign land, what's needed is a «bicultural» perspective — the ability to identity with your new home, but all the while continuing to connect with your native country too.

I think that really gave me a glimpse of what it must be like for the refugees as well when they arrive in a foreign land or in unknown places, what it's like... that alienation.

This month, in a new report, GRAIN found that investment in foreign land holdings, purchases that the group calls «land grabs,» remains prevalent around the world.

Isn't there still an American minister imprisoned in a foreign land right now?

9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

The point is that we should know where we are; and he would know where he is, which is in a foreign land.»

Like the Jews in Babylon living in a foreign land, Christians are — and always have been — «resident aliens» called to love our neighbors with deeds of service so that those around us will «see [our] good deeds and glorify God» (1 Peter 2:12 NIV).

By faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, and be looked forward to the city whose builder and maker was God.

Do you feel like you are in foreign land, and nobody knows or loves you?

Israel multiplied under Egyptian slave masters, and Jews rose to prominence in Babylonian and Persian exile, as they learned to sing the Lord's songs in a foreign land.