Such principles are still alien to the IMF, which is why it remains a global menace.
The notion of the buck stopping at the top seems completely alien to him.
Toronto's Russian community will be alien to most readers, but not by the end of his book.
Unionists have a culture distinct from, and in many ways alien to, that of the rest of Ireland.
It is alien to his world view and distracts from his domestic agenda.
Choice and diversity are not somehow alien to the spirit of the public services - or inconsistent with fairness.
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Gates may have realized his best defense lies in a strategy alien to Microsoft's bug-ridden history: offering products we can trust.
When she started her company F International in 1962, the idea of people working from home was alien to most businesses.
Sally, who tends to wounded veterans as a nurse's aide, has a perspective on reality that's alien to her small-minded family.
Mr. IAN: It was completely alien to me because it really, you know, it has nothing to do with actual guitar playing.
What is most important to establish and remember is that a passion for military non-interventionism is not alien to respectable American politics.
He is vigorously proposing something utterly alien to New Yorkers: tax cuts.
Somewhere along the way, something must be happening that is alien to the neat picture of plasma and field lines moving together.
The rookie researchers mostly confine their comments to technical matters rather than what makes a product hip--an area that is alien to many of them.
Because, in that long term, they came to be seen as a party which was alien to Scotland or, more precisely, whose roots were other than Scottish.
The rookie researchers mostly confine their comments to technical matters rather than what makes a product a hip one--an area that is alien to many of them.
Surely our world obeys rules still alien to our imaginations.
Gordon Brown's budgets, despite containing some redistribute elements, have also been marked by the sort of "prudence and caution" than was previously seen as alien to the Labour party.
It wandered through the sky naked, corroded, and gray, more and more alien to the world down here, a hangover from a way of being that was now outdated.
Obama is arguing for his activist agenda not on the basis of class consciousness, which is alien to America, but as a defense of middle-class morality, which is central to it.
Currying favors with subordinates is alien to military leadership.
It goes without saying that atavistic emotions such as class revenge or the sheer joy of exercising absolute power are wholly alien to the character and political philosophy of Britain's present prime minister.
We can't go and play a game that's alien to us, we've shown in the Champions League that our teams can do well and the national team have to show a similar attacking verve.
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This free-for-all is almost as alien to the better educated, more law-abiding, Sunni citizens of Taiz, the most urbanised region in the north, or Hodeida, its main port, as it is to the southerners.
Two years ago, the British were reluctant to accept that the charter should be in the constitution, because it was alien to British legal traditions and might be used to overturn Thatcher-era labour-market reforms.
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The Silicon Valley start-up culture of tireless, low-paid work for a common passion and a vague promise of future riches often seems as alien to today's young and educated Asians as their grandparents' sweatshop reminiscences.
They should start the process of regaining the captainship at helm rather that making themselves mere passengers who are then often hijacked by religious groups whose ideological base is alien to the Somali pastoralist culture.
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