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"This is a South Africa I don't know, " he said. "The country became pleasantly alien to me. "

Mr Yau explains how he tried a couple of high street banks in London, but "I had no track record and the concept was alien to them" .

If the complexity of the modern welfare system would be alien to its founders, the political context of today's reforms would be familiar.

China should have its own traditions, its own ways, but should not view this [democratic system] as alien to its own cultural values.

He would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature.

Only mediocre people are easily satisfied. I am a mediocre person by no means. Mediocrity is alien to me, just like the fire and water.

Since in their view the Sinhalese are the sole owners of Sri Lanka, and all minorities are alien to it, this was unacceptable.

For an alien to insert themselves into human society is a breach of these rules, and would simply not be allowed.

I beg you to recognize human life draped in a form and guise alien to ours, but springing from a soil plowed and sown by all our hands.

Trans fats are alien to the body and are dangerous free radicals capable of causing cellular (DNA) damage.

He argues convincingly that a socially transforming idea must not be woven into what exists but must be 'alien to the system'.

The illusion that old art is sensed is supported by the fact that elements alien to art are often present in it.

Common ground that they are still part of the country is no longer alien to a foreign land.

The notion that she aspires to be an independent filmmaker is alien to their minds.

How did he come to that point, knowing that Islam forbids suicide and that immolation by fire is alien to Arab and Muslim culture?

This of course requires a national consensus and a long term commitment, something alien to American political thinking .

In practice, professional imperialists ruled through a caste system alien to anything seen at home.

However, the idea of doing such a strange and painful thing to someone's body in order to make them more beautiful is alien to us.

This community is always more or less outside of, and alien to, us.

They appeared to be alien to the Earth.

At the time, I didn't think our marketplace was ready for a functional language because the paradigm is so alien to most programmers.

I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me.

His encounters with lions, baboons and many other species alien to the New World were a familiar and acceptable genre.

are as alien to most of us as the surface of another planet.

It feels wrong, even alien, to throw so much away, but it's the right way to take advantage of abundance.

But he does know that his lip is split open, all puffy and alien to his searching tongue, and that it tastes sharp, like blood.

She felt alien to him, unable to fit herself to his need.

The secret of much murder and evildoing is to dehumanize the victim, to make him alien, to make him Other, a different species.

College kids enter the marketplace armed with computer literacy completely alien to many veteran practitioners.

I studied the myths associated with pregnancy and motherhood , which were totally alien to me.

They took products alien to Chinese tastes and made them popular.

that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game.

I talk to electrical engineers who use genetic algorithms to design circuits, and the circuits end up being completely alien to humans.

I followed the alien to see where it.

Which explain why "standard templates" of the newsroom seem alien to many readers.

The idea that they would prove eternally alien to particular cultures has long seemed quite implausible.

Work in this area should not be alien to the pursuit of a Development Agenda in WIPO.

She leaves as the hand, to the branches for the footer, with a people alien to the ideal can not be upward climb!

emotions alien to her temperament.

Your planet is not yet within this wheel as the rhythm upon which she currently rides is underpinned by vibrations alien to the Source.

I live here with my boyfriend in a flat, which is bizarre and alien to me.

Cruelty was quite alien to his nature.

Money really isn't everything; be thankful you have your health although, sadly, it sounds like happiness is probably alien to you.

Cruelty was quite alien to her nature.

"Women are alien to us, because we're not women, " Testino tells me, man to man.

Official patriotic slogans ( "A resurgent Russia that is getting off its knees" ) sounded false and alien to her.

Disobedience in mind to the heavenly vision will make you a slave to points of view that are alien to Jesus Christ.

Problems that are alien to the party, of course.

Physical risk: refers to the food found in any alien to human health may cause harm to the material.

Individualism is alien to the world outlook of the proletariat.

And that life enjoys a three-dimensional existence which is alien to us.

Is trusts law alien to the conception of unitary ownership in civil law ?

He acts alien to his principles.

alien Lying is alien to his nature.

but everything still seemed alien to me.

Fortunately, it is not alien to your nature.

Failure, like pain, is alien to my life.

What Harry said was alien to the subject.

Luxury is alien to his nature.

an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism.

If this feels alien to you, watch animals.

These things are all alien to the environment.

It's probably alien to your experience.

I live here in a flat, which is bizarre and alien to me.

That seems too alien to the way we learn about losing your virginity.

Such uses of fiction are entirely alien to Hawthorne's art.

Philip Glass's works are totally alien to modern and even future audience.

The market is not alien to Africa.

Nothing human is alien to me.

The static, aesthetic searchings of the Cubists were quite alien to them.

And while the description may seem bizarre, the process is far from alien to many of us.

Their ideas are quit alien to our way of thinking.

When I first went to New York, it all felt very alien to me.

Their ideas are alien to our way of thinking.

Cruelty was quite alien to him.

Orange trees are alien to China.

Such principles are alien to our religion.

Outcast. Betrayer. Alien. To ever face them again, I was gonna have to change the rules.

Their ideas are quite alien to our ways of thinking.

The principles are alien to our religion.

Her behavior is alien to our ethical values.

When I first went to Paris, it all felt alien to me.

Their ideas are quite alien to our own.

Is not alien to the Earth is on the way?

The idea is alien to our religion.

A well-known example is the belief that there is a Living Buddha, who is the reincarnation of the first, a belief alien to Chinese Buddhism.

Envy others, hatred, the life is alien to the other.

We shouldn't ignore others' opinions just because they are alien to our own ideas.

There is to Shanghai an element of hedonism alien to Hong Kong, and an unwelcome one, I would imagine, to the policy-makers of Beijing.

Trouts are alien to our country.

To lose an internal language is to slide into an inarticulate darkness where we become alien to ourselves;

Alien to the earth is beyond human wisdom of biological collectively,

[D] Philip Glass's works are totally alien to modern and even future audience. [D] Philip Glass