1.   A stock exchange started trading in May, while a law now being drafted would allow foreigners to hold majority stakes in enterprises operated in partnership with Qatari investors.

2.   Even Mexican bankers acknowledge that the damage to the banking industry has been so great that there may be few alternatives but to allow foreigners into the country.

3.   It has never allowed foreigners to run, or take an equity stake in, an existing onshore oil field.

4.   Pending judgment, the foreigner is not allowed to work or to attend a university, or indeed do anything but wait.

5.   The biggest eyebrow-raiser was a presidential order allowing foreigners charged with terrorism to be tried by military tribunals, perhaps in secret and outside the United States.

6.   The Europeans want China to allow foreigners to hold controlling stakes in telecommunications networks, for example.

7.   The Montenegrin government seeks to allow foreigners into the country.

8.   The Saudi government, he has said, were apostates for allowing the foreigners on their land.

9.   The visas allow well-educated foreigners, such as engineers and computer programmers, to work in this country for up to six years.

10.   The transaction will allow foreigners, who are banned by the Constitution from owning media companies, to buy Benpres shares.