11.   He is stressing defense, a heretofore alien concept in Charlotte.

12.   Hitting, in fact, has been an alien concept to them.

13.   In many places where we now operate, the idea of an impartial, independent press is an alien concept.

14.   In rural areas of Nigeria and other African countries, the nuclear family is still an alien concept.

15.   Mortgage-backed securities or real-estate investment trusts, favorite escape routes for investors who picked up RTC properties, are alien concepts in Europe.

16.   On the eve of the annual NFL meetings, status quo is an alien concept.

17.   People power, for so long an alien concept in Serbia, has suddenly and astonishingly become real.

18.   The bisexual, drug-fueled Reed mythology that Bockris makes much of in the biography is an alien concept to Reed.

19.   The bulls say vulture investing is simply an alien concept to most Europeans, who will enter the fray once an infrastructure is developed to assess distressed property.

20.   The lands at first were reserved for the tribe as a unit, since individual ownership of land was understood to be a concept alien to Native Americans.