Both of these represent a level of coercion call it command-and-obey that is alien to the American experience.
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.
Never has the ruling class been so obviously alien to the rest of the country.
Toronto's Russian community will be alien to most readers, but not by the end of his book.
Broad-based prosperity achieved through talent, effort, and luck seems alien to the (generally affluent) leaders of the left.
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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.
Interpretation or re-interpretation by the SC is a legal procedure or mechanism which is alien to the Hong Kong people and their concept of justice.
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.
But Sergei Guriev, head of the New Economic School in Moscow, says that it would at least expose corruption and increase competition, deeply alien to Russia's ruling bureaucracy.
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.
But the proper course -- telling the parties to go home and work it out among themselves -- seems both contrary to Mr. Clinton's immediate interests and alien to his mentality.
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.
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