Their poor English language skills also place them at a disadvantage in this country.
Saying that the interests of British students are seriously comprised by poor English speakers is ridiculous.
Mr Ono, meanwhile, had agreed readily to the request to appear, despite having poor English and a harder case to plead.
He even loses out on a promotion to a younger, foreign-educated colleague because of his poor English - a development that helps lead to his financial downfall.
With little education and, often, poor English skills, they were stuck in limbo, a world of minimum wage jobs with no chance of security or bettering their lives.
The 3% who earn the minimum wage tend to be people in special circumstances, the most important category of which are people with very low skills, little job experience, and sometimes even poor English skills.
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Meanwhile, Latinas born abroad are often condemned to low-paying jobs by an even skimpier education or a poor knowledge of English.
In 1994 the family patriarch, Amir Amidi, found himself on the phone with Nozad, who despite no tangible experience and poor command in English had answered a television ad for a salesperson.
Said to be a masterful manager, Mourinho displayed theatrics, arrogance, and balls (along with an amusingly poor grasp of English) at press conferences, but he was cautious and calculating on the pitch.
The report has a specific reference to healthcare professionals following the death of a patient in Cambridgeshire who died after treatment by a German locum doctor who had previously been refused NHS work due to his poor command of English.
But in China, the first sentence people say to a foreigner is, 'I'm sorry my English is poor.
The 1985 Israfel Society Conference, the first meeting of Edgar Allan Poe specialists to be held outside the northern hemisphere, was to take place in Buenos Aires, less than a thousand kilometres from my apartment in Bonfim, and was, therefore, within the budget of a poor translator and teacher of English (which, as you know, is what I am).
The court heard he could not smell it due to his poor sense of smell and his English was not good enough to understand the writing on the bottle, which he thought was cleaning soap for the floor.
And most black children came from poor, ill-educated families where English, the main language of instruction, was not their mother tongue.
Ferguson is hoping United's poor performances and those of the other English teams are a "one-off" and results will improve next season.
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Poor pupils, those in urban environments and English-language learners fare better in charters (see article).
The scammer claims to be a native-born American citizen, but uses poor grammar indicative of a non-native English speaker.
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University College London researchers' study of 10, 000 English people also suggested future disability and poor health could be predicted by the state of a person's mind.
Her sons, Steve and Robin Tilbury, believe she received abysmal standards of care, including poor communication by doctors, one of whom spoke English that was hard to understand, and deprivation of the nutrition she needed in her last days.
Some 20% of the intake are on free school meals, an indicator of poverty often linked with poor academic performance, and 20% do not speak English at home.
They were poor, rural and often illiterate in Urdu, let alone English.
English learner students are more likely to be in poor, overcrowded schools and in many places represent an added cost to already cash-strapped school districts.
His English comprehension is good, but his speaking ability is poor, so he'll switch to Burmese for most answers.
Independent schools argue that they already offer bursaries and scholarships for poor children (although Scottish schools do less on this front than their English counterparts).
An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
Middle Eastern investors have been offered the chance to buy anyone from Newcastle United, who are enduring a poor season in the Premiership, to Charlton Athletic, struggling in the second tier of English football.
"When you hear that a poor boy caught the world record, it gives you hope, " he says in perfect English.
Of course there are downsides to living in the countryside - with seclusion and space come inevitably higher transport costs, poor mobile phone coverage and slower internet speeds - but the stats defy any notion that the English rural scene is threatened.
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the English Baccalaureate "reinforces the idea that anything other than a traditional academic route is the poor relation".
They looked at whether deaths from heart disease, stroke and 10 cancers linked with poor diet could be prevented in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, if everyone switched to the typical English diet.
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