Sentences with phrase «land speaking a foreign language»

The rationale behind the inclusion of cases within the priority areas, was, in many cases, the need to hold the state to account, check the exercise of executive power and to ensure that power is exercised responsibly... That need for legal assistance is no less in the case of a non-resident and arguably, in a foreign land speaking a foreign language, all the greater (Lord Bingham in A) cited Lord Scarman (in ex parte Khawaja [1984] AC 74, 111 - 2):

Not exact matches

Imagine leaving behind your homeland and your family to move to a foreign land where you barely speak the language and have no respect?

Feeling a bit as if I had won a trip to a foreign land without any information on what to do there or how to speak the language, I started developing ideas for my research project.

And I asked Farhadi how he was able to make a picture in a land foreign to him and a in a language he didn't speak.

It seems like a foreign language meant to be spoken in a far off land without an embassy to help explain the culture.

Here was a land peopled overwhelmingly by mestizos (people of mixed descent) and Indians, with dozens of pre-Columbian languages still spoken, syncretic religious beliefs and rituals reinforcing fatalism, with the dead seemingly more revered than the living... Yet, for all the fascination that foreign artists felt for Mexico between 1910 and 1940, their influence on the country was minimal.

You are in the middle of a foreign land, where you do not speak the language, don't know anyone, let alone the best hospital to take her to.