Sentences with phrase «when in a foreign place»

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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.

Catholics and Protestants rarely entered one another's churches except for the occasional wedding or funeral, when each felt thoroughly foreign in the other's place.

If we took more of an interest in the making of our foreign policy, usually for the profit of our corporate overlords rather than for the safety of the American people, maybe we would know why, when bringing the lamp of liberty to the darker places of the earth, the United States invariably chooses for its allies the despots who operate their countries on the model of a prison or a jail.

That didn't stop Trump's popularity when it was pointed out countless times that his clothing line is all manufactured in Asia and he hires temporary foreign workers at Mar - a-Lago and other places, all the while he was criticizing other companies for offshore operations.

Apart from serving the people of Ghana very well, it is only when your physical infrastructure is well in place that our country becomes even more attractive for direct foreign investment.

However, it is difficult to remember a time when foreign policy played such a small role in a domestic election, particularly at a time when the world is such an uncertain place and globalization is making our foreign relations with each other ever more important.

The laws they create have crippled our immigration system, placing huge and often insurmountable barriers in the way of the authorities when they want to throw a foreign murderer, rapist or violent offender out of our country.

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects elections to take place in Afghanistan; and what steps the Government are taking to facilitate such elections.

Twelve years ago, the department came as close as it had ever been to being broken up when the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, failed to put in place a plan to deport foreign national offenders at the end of their sentences.

A doctor can also fail to get enough of a tissue, blood, or urine sample or take a sample from the wrong place, perhaps giving a false - negative result when disease is present, explains David S. Wilkinson, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the department of pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Va., and chair of the quality - practice committee for the College of American Pathologists, which accredits U.S. and foreign labs.

This movie reinforces the risks young girls face when traveling to a foreign country but I would assume there is no need to reinforce running wild in a foreign place and getting drunk because sadly this wouldn't be the first girl to get drunk and have something bad happen to her by the hands of an unscrupulous guy, murdered, raped, sold into the sex trade or white slavery..

The event, that took place on the evening of September 11, 2012, when Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, killing a U.S. Ambassador and a U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer, was indeed a tragedy and the events surrounding it have been misconstrued by both political parties.

When Shirley Weber and her siblings fled this place as children in 1951 on a midnight train bound for California, their destination seemed so distant and unfamiliar to the relatives who stayed behind that they called the state a foreign land.

When appropriate, we place our properties with foreign agents and co-agents at leading film agencies in New York and Los Angeles.

It is that revelatory moment when white, middle - class Westerners finally understand what the rest of humanity has always known — that there are places in this world where the safety net they have spent so much of their lives erecting is suddenly whipped away, where the right accent, education, health insurance and a foreign passport — all the trappings that spell «It Can't Happen to Me» — no longer apply, and their well - being depends on the condescension of strangers...

I had first seen Krakatoa, or at least, the place where the great volcano had once been, when I was wandering through Indonesia as a foreign correspondent in the 1970's.

Being in a foreign place can be eye - opening and invigorating, but when it comes to finding quality and luxury in travel, it all comes down to a matter of money.

So she knows what is needed to feel at home when you are in a foreign place.

Indeed, it is a central component of what many of us imagine when we think about discovering a foreign country, and there is no place where this is more true than in North Africa's most -LSB-...]

Having a place to sleep at night is pretty important especially when you are in a foreign country.

When travel addicts dream of foreign markets at night, they often end up in a place that closely resembles the Marrakech souk as they sleep the small hours away.

Africa is often thought of as a single place in the media and pop culture, like when Australia's shadow foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek referred to Africa as a country.

I was referred this place by a hostel mate (a foreign national) in Mcleodganj and when he pronounced it as «JAGGADAS», I was a bit bemused.

Selected group exhibitions include After The Thrill has Gone (Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Virginia, 2016), Re (as) ssisting Narratives (Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2016), International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen, 2016), When Tomorrow Comes (Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, 2015), DIS / PLACE (MoCADA, Brooklyn, 2015), AFIRIperFOMA (Lagos, 2015); What Remains is Tomorrow (South African Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015), La Fabrique (De L'Homme Moderne, in association with the Lyon Biennale, La Fabric, 2015), Solomon Foundation for Contemporary Art (2015), Foreign Bodies (WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, 2015), Broken English (Tyburn Gallery, London, 2015), Brave New World... 20 Years of Democracy (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2014),!

When it comes to guys like me taking up space I believe that most, if not all, intentionally separate their art from politics, because they all continue to have solo exhibitions and seem to have no problem showing in places where black and brown artists (local and foreign) get little to no representation or exposure.

Article 55 (1)(a) CISA allows a country (like Germany) that, when ratifying CISA, made an official declaration in that respect, not to be bound by Article 54 in case «the acts to which the foreign judgment relates took place in whole or in part in its own territory»;

The literature suggests that, because of fears of jury bias, foreign patent holders are less likely to sue in the United States than are domestic patent holders; when they do, they put forward only their strongest patents.4 While jury bias is a serious problem, it is made worse by venue rules that limit actions to the jurisdiction in which the infringer is either incorporated or «has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.»

What kind of «political force majeure» clause would be appropriate in a treaty intended to allow foreign investors to have some confidence that the rules won't change in a country after they have made their investments based on the rules in place when it made them?

When you are away from your friends and family in a foreign place, you spend a lot of time with your own thoughts and I was no exception.

Usually, when soldiers are killed in a foreign country, their family members can choose for their remains to be buried in the place where they were killed or repatriated to their home countries.

This incident takes place when the government allowed foreign investors to achieve 49 percent stake in the Indian insurance market.

In another set of studies, when research participants were randomly assigned to hold either a heavy clipboard or a light clipboard, the «heavy - clipboard» participants later placed greater value on foreign currencies.4 That is, participants in the «heavy - clipboard» condition believed it would take more Euros to «buy» the corresponding amount of yen than if they were in the «light - clipboard» conditioIn another set of studies, when research participants were randomly assigned to hold either a heavy clipboard or a light clipboard, the «heavy - clipboard» participants later placed greater value on foreign currencies.4 That is, participants in the «heavy - clipboard» condition believed it would take more Euros to «buy» the corresponding amount of yen than if they were in the «light - clipboard» conditioin the «heavy - clipboard» condition believed it would take more Euros to «buy» the corresponding amount of yen than if they were in the «light - clipboard» conditioin the «light - clipboard» condition.