Many of them fly thousands of miles to tell a photostory of a foreign land.
Families or small villages pooled resources to send a young man to the bidesh (foreign land).
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Our children often end up in what seems to us a foreign land.
In the trope of the tale, Man is journeying in a foreign land, bringing news of his sense of dislocation.
Lombard told Guber to close his eyes, because he was going to tell him a story about a foreign land.
To navigate the logistics of working in this very foreign land, they turned to a local director, Kim Gwang Hun.
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In many ways, a hospital is like that foreign land, and the guides that know the terrain are the nurses.
The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.
My mother made me rise before dawn to learn their truths when I lived as a child in a foreign land.
But is being born to an American mother in a foreign land enough to meet the constitutional requirements to hold the office?
As a nation of immigrants, the populace disproportionately numbers those whose ancestors displayed the gumption to begin afresh in a foreign land.
He has directed three road movies: "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004), "Central Station" (1998) and "Foreign Land" (1996), which he co-directed with Daniela Thomas.
Those who fled to the South Western peninsula (cern in Celtic or cornu in Latin) lived in Corn-wall - the foreign land on England's horn.
As the phenomenon of large-scale foreign land acquisitions is very recent, it is difficult to assess their full environmental and social impact at this early stage.
The report identified inherent problems and missteps in the compensation system as the U.S. returns a growing number of its upgraded facilities on foreign land to the host countries.
Reading a 2011 World Bank study3 on this phenomenon, one has the impression that the weaker the governance, the more attractive the country to large-scale land-based foreign land investments.
For the first time since the Gulf war, American troops are in a foreign land, not guarding an embassy, protecting aid workers or trying to keep a peace, but fighting an enemy.
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Arriving in this exotic and definitely foreign land with a collection of skis, snowboards, crampons and kayaks and attired in brightly colored technical garb, the ACG Team made its mark on the Moroccan landscape.
Denigrating the United States from a foreign land adds nothing to the domestic debate, and it only serves to demean us in the eyes of those without familiarity with some of the nuances of American policy and politics.
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Well actually that speech on foreign land, if you read it again, this is the intriguing thing, all of that was about Europe, about the incursion of Europe into the United Kingdom and taking away so much of our ability to govern ourselves, you know the loss of currency, the loss of tax, the loss of many of the powers and now we're seeing the Euro army.
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The constitution prohibits foreign ownership of land, with residential condominiums being the only exception in practice.
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New World says it is the biggest foreign holder of land-use rights in China.
In a continent chronically unhappy about foreign ownership of land, this is an astonishing concession.
Back in July, the Brazilian government announced it was putting a limit on foreign ownership of land.
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In instances where foreign investment is justified, priority could be given to arrangements that do not imply transfer of arable land to foreign investors.
Even in Ethiopia, one of the prime recipients of land-based foreign direct investment in Africa, the law does not allow private ownership of the land, which belongs to the State.
Israel closed its air space to foreign planes, closed land crossings and evacuated staff from diplomatic missions and Jewish institutions around the world.
This has driven Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to enact a series of laws preventing or limiting the sale of land to foreign investors.
Ethiopia has sold more than 1 million ha of fertile land to foreign investors from India, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, displacing tens of thousands5 of subsistence farmers.
In the current global context, which has seen land prices soar, international land transactions could easily get out of hand and result in foreign interests taking control of most of the land in Latin America, threatening the national sovereignty of States over their territory.
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