"foreign" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Administration officials said that China - long the Khmer Rouge's chief foreign patron - posed the main threat to Security Council passage of the resolution.
- China, the principal foreign patron of the Khmer Rouge in the 1980's, is applauded by diplomats here for having cut off assistance to the rebels.
- So is the tendency of the island's leaders to reach out for foreign patrons and to claim geostrategic significance for a parochial power struggle.
- Nevertheless, seven years after the Russian withdrawal, fighting continues in Afghanistan among a dozen factions using weapons supplied by former foreign patrons.
- Another difficulty facing the leaders of the force has resulted because many of its traditional foreign patrons have lost interest or even befriended the white-minority Goverment.
- By the late 1980's Renamo had lost its foreign patrons, and the Government had abandoned Communism for a version of free-market pragmatism.
- The last years of Pakubuwana's reign, from 1717 to 1719, were dominated by rebellion in East Java against the kingdom and its foreign patrons.
- His general untrustworthiness and his unpopularity amongst Afghans made it more difficult for Amin to find new "foreign patrons".
- Maybe all of this will induce China to come in and play foreign patron, to which one is tempted to say, Be our guest.
- These establishments can also present foreign patrons with grossly inflated bar tabs, threatening those customers who refuse to pay.
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