9 sentences with 'foreigners'
Example sentences and phrases with the word foreigners and other words derived from it.
• « However, around 1650 BC, a group of Canaanites founded what became known as the 'Hyksos' dynasty, an Egyptian term meaning simply 'leaders of foreigners', after they overthrew the king and seized power in Lower Egypt. »
• « While the initial wave of European colonisation (mainly in the Americas) had been driven by the search for gold and the desire to convert foreigners to Christianity, European powers came to pursue colonies and trade routes in the name of commodities and the wealth they generated in the 17th century. »
• « Peter I the Great learned about Western Europe by visiting foreigners in his early years and decided to go and see what the West had to offer himself - he disguised himself as an ordinary labourer (albeit one who was 2.13 metres tall) and set out on a personal voyage of discovery. »
• « The current population of Argentina is almost entirely descended from foreigners, especially Europeans; we Argentines have inherited from them our way of being (our way of dressing, eating, working, singing, even our special way of speaking the Spanish language). »
• « It is interesting to know that in 1914, half of the inhabitants of the city of Buenos Aires were foreigners; today, on the other hand, foreigners do not even make up a fifth of the population, and in the whole country there are only 5% of people of other nationalities. »
• « We were given time to speak to only four prisoners. One by one they entered the room, and stared at the semicircle of three foreigners and eight or nine Soviet officials. »