But the sole basis for suspicion, they said, should not be a passenger's skin color, ethnicity, religion or foreign-sounding name.

During the campaign he was heckled because he had a foreign-sounding name.

The organization lacked coherent leadership and purpose and was little more than a patriotic group with a foreign-sounding name.

It only took a foreign-sounding name to turn good old American ice cream into an exotic treat.

When he mocked people with foreign-sounding names during a House floor debate?

That was aimed at curbing discrimination against job seekers with foreign-sounding names from troubled neighborhoods.

It has been suggested that it was promoted by opponents of the drug, who wanted to stigmatize it with a "foreign-sounding name".

They said employers reacted to the law by avoiding hiring people who looked like aliens or who had foreign-sounding names.

But she heard otherwise, from a man with an accent and a foreign-sounding name.

Nonetheless, like in other European countries, some level of discrimination does occur, and there are higher unemployment rates among job-seekers with foreign-sounding names.