The aircraft industry in both countries was considered a national interest and the purchase of foreign designs was rare.

Higher standards abroad forced manufacturers to buy or copy foreign designs.

All the proposals for a coastal combat ship are based on foreign designs.

Many of the objects in the park have been specially imported or copied from foreign designs.

The factory had been a naval workshop which was engaged in building foreign designs.

They were more like some sort of foreign designs that the Northerners had tried to adapt to their own style.

Virtually the entire American battle line was being designed from pre-dreadnought experience and observation of foreign designs.

"You couldn't introduce a foreign design, something that wouldn't have the same fabric as everything else in the room."

Before that year, as with most nations, all tanks in Japanese service had been of foreign design and/or manufacture.

Significantly, the major improvement the Soviet designers made to these foreign designs was an increase in firepower.