ADJECTIVE
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of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
our large nonnative population
How To Use foreign-born In A Sentence
- Immigrants, refugees, and asylees constitute only a fraction of foreign-born persons who enter the United States each year.
- The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
- She was foreign-born and a regicide, having got rid of her weak-minded husband Peter III.
- Though all but two of the pastors are white, at an average worship service as many as 20 percent of the congregation are nonwhite and, according to internal surveys, new member classes draw between 12 and 17 percent foreign-born attendees. American Grace
- The book establishes the legitimacy of Agnes, not a legitimacy she already had but one she would need as a foreign-born empress in a factionalized court, many of whose members would remain loyal to the emperor's first daughter.
- The upsurge of early printed verse translations makes public a large and rapidly distributed body of foreign-born poetry.
- Foreign-born players have been prominent in the game from its earliest days.
- The foreign-born now comprise 12 percent of Americans.
- As of the 2000 Census, 22 percent of Lowell's population was foreign-born the national average throughout the U.S. is 11 percent. Nataly Kelly: Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? And What Languages Do They Speak?
- For instance, the data reveal that a foreign-born surgeon currently operating in Texas has an unusual number of patient deaths associated with an elective procedure. Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries