One city that many foreigners do not consider is Makarska, roughly half-way between Split and Dubrovnik.
"With so many foreigners coming to Doha in recent years, the city has changed, " he says.
Many foreigners are surprised that our national characteristics are sometimes very difficult to understand.
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Like the British, many foreigners have warmed to the prime minister's smile and manner.
Ms. WANG-CHEN-SHONG (Volunteer, Beijing, China): Now, this street is very beautiful, and many foreigners are here, yes.
But many foreigners are likely to wish the Malaysian market good riddance after serving their year in lock-up.
In the eyes of many foreigners and reform-minded Yemenis, qat is the root of the country's numberless ills.
In many cities around the world, hotels cater to so many foreigners that it matters most to deliver high-level, albeit generic international hospitality.
It lets many foreigners effectively play as domestic players in England but will now be read in a way which restricts their freedom of movement.
"The Asian TV programmer doesn't care how many foreigners come in, " says Nicholas James, managing director of Media Asia, a Hong Kong production and distribution company.
Already, as many foreigners leave Germany each year as arrive.
Many foreigners today are threadbare students, overworked managers, trailing spouses.
Many foreigners asked about the well-being of their Japanese friends, even if their friends were based in Okinawa or Fukuoka, several hundreds of miles from the dangerous quake zone.
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But a walk down the street or ride on the subway reveals that there are many, many foreigners in Japan who are not ethnic Chinese or Korean permanent residents.
Last week Mr Sarkozy said there were too many foreigners in France - and pledged to halve the number of immigrants arriving if he is re-elected later this year.
The Yes campaign was backed by most Swiss businessmen, worried that, although Swiss companies make most of their money abroad, the country is regarded by many foreigners as snootily aloof.
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Many foreigners who were parachuted into the company at its launch by Groupon (most of whom were from Germany) are no longer with the company after a lot of friction with the JV partners from Tencent about how to make the venture work in China.
Polls show that most Bosnians think little either of their own politicians or of many of the foreigners who help govern them.
The state banks now have private shareholders, many of them foreigners.
In the past, all they had to deal with were the animal-rights people, many of them foreigners who could not be expected to understand the ways of Spain.
Local councils in Britain complain that clinics and schools are overloaded and central government is slow to dish out help, and local police in areas with many immigrants blame foreigners for a rise in crime.
Take Germany, where foreigners, many of them working illegally, make up a growing share of the workforce in construction.
But the RBI will celebrate many more birthdays before foreigners can take a more direct stake in Indian banking.
Private employers have such a strong preference for foreigners that many resort to creating pretend jobs for Saudis to meet increasingly tough quotas.
Since it limits the total share of each district that can be owned by foreigners, many land registries are playing it safe and rejecting all foreign purchasers.
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As the Nordic countries' population ages, there will be many more openings for foreigners in medicine, the caring professions and other jobs, especially in the public sector.
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To many bankers, particularly foreigners who have been keeping an eye out for opportunities in Japan, the government's inclination to obstruct reform has been sharply illustrated by last week's order by the Financial Services Agency, a regulator, to Shinsei, a bank now owned by foreign investors, to increase lending to small and medium-sized companies.
But many Saudis, along with foreigners, do worry about the effectiveness of the kingdom's police force.
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