Quotes About Foreign

Americans are like that.' The other stared at him incredulously. 'It would cost a great deal of money to provide for a child, perhaps for years. One does not do that lightly for a foreign child of which one knows nothing.' 'It's just the sort of thing they do do,' said the old man. 'They would pour out their money in a cause like that.

It's ever so kind of you to take the trouble," she said. She turned to her father. "Dad, this gentleman's mended my iron, and it works beautifully." She used her normal language without thinking anything about it, but each Negro within hearing caught the word "gentleman" and stiffened for a moment in wonder. They certainly were in a foreign country, a long ways from home.

that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion.

Latin American republics were among the first to discover that it was relatively painless to default when a substantial proportion of bondholders were foreign.

los regímenes constitucionales basados en el imperio de la ley son a su vez más susceptibles de experimentar revoluciones financieras que alienten tanto la inversión extranjera como la formación interna de capital. Una

Pero los intereses estadounidenses podían también verse satisfechos porque la ocupación de países extranjeros reportaba beneficios (al cabo de un tiempo extraordinariamente breve). Sobre esta base, era posible transformar con éxito Alemania Occidental y Japón y convertir sus regímenes delincuentes de la peor especie en modelos de economía capitalista y política democrática.

complaints from France that Washington was exploiting its reserve currency status in order to collect seigniorage from America's foreign creditors by printing dollars, much as medieval monarchs had exploited their monopoly on minting to debase the currency.

non-Western countries had, until quite recently, highly unreliable legal systems and differing accounting rules. If a foreign trading partner decided to default on its debts, there was little that an investor situated on the other side of the world could do. In the first era of globalization, the solution to this problem was brutally simple but effective: to impose European rule.

Y aunque no hubiera sido así, resulta dudoso que las inyecciones de capital del tipo imaginado por diversos economistas estadounidenses como Walt Rostow* fueran la solución a los problemas de la mayoría de las economías africanas, asiáticas y latinoamericanas. Una buena parte de la ayuda iba a parar a los países pobres, pero la mayor parte de ella se perdía o era robada.

The prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there. And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.

the prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

As a former CIA operative, I have seen first-hand that not every nation we buy energy from has America's best interest in mind.

Japan is not going to do anything with any country that harms the national interest.

The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.

I understand that it's always difficult for a national team to have a foreign manager. It's a nationalistic question that also flows into football.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.