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Immigrant in sentence

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The work begins with a voice-over by immigrant Joe Dekko (Colin Gray O'Hara), his text indicating inner turmoil, while he and two crime partners prepare for a robbery of two drug dealers.
Take, for example, 'Broken Blossoms (1919),' where a Chinese immigrant (portrayed, admittedly, by American Richard Barthelmess) is shown to be, by far, the film's most compassionate and respectable male character.
By the time the government soldiers roll in to mow down the hippies, we've grown so tired of their singing and ceremonies and the 15 hallucinatory dream sequences Laughlin has included to suggest his kinship with Jesus Christ (seriously!), it's reminiscent of the end of Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate", where every romanticized immigrant per screen hour practically justifies the finale massacre.
An all-too-familiar scenario that occurs in every nation on earth; integrating into a society that neither understands nor fully accepts you is a challenge that every immigrant must face.
My favourite segment, however, is the equally funny New York section starring Giancarlo Esposito, which is basically a culture clash between a working-class New Yorker and a foreign immigrant's first night driving a taxi.
In Paris, an immigrant from the Ivory Coast picks up a blind girl, and they have a discussion about race and blindness.
So taken is Laura by Kant that she imitates his daily promenade, every day at the same time...unlike Kant, however, Laura's stroll happens to lead her past the door of the darkly handsome Algerian clandestine immigrant alongside whom she works as a janitor in the evenings.
For example, Stanley Fischer, nominated in January by US President Barack Obama to succeed Janet Yellen as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, is an American immigrant from southern Africa who served as Governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 until last year.
The attack by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has invariably elicited comparisons to the Saudi-born terrorists who struck the United States on September 11, 2001, or to the Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to set off a car bomb in Times Square in 2010.
Its founder, Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa (who in his spare time also runs Tesla, the electric-car company), funded it with his own money (which he earned at PayPal, another start-up) and that of other private investors.
Everything that dialogue and education can do to close the gap between immigrant and host communities should be done.
In theory, the resource requirement must be tailored to the individual circumstances of the immigrant.
Nevertheless, even during the five-year period, an immigrant will enjoy greater rights.
When the five years of legal residence are completed, an immigrant automatically gains the inalienable right to permanent residence.
The host country cannot deny this right even if an immigrant has no health insurance and no resources to live on.
The immigrant will be fully eligible for all benefits the host country offers its domestic residents.
Excluding taxes and contributions paid and transfers and public goods received, the Ifo Institute reckons that the average immigrant to Germany receives a net 2,300 euros annually.
Trump, in his campaign speeches, made use of the tragic murder of Kate Steinle by an undocumented immigrant to stoke support for his anti-immigrant policies.
Smart Immigration for EuropePARIS – Immigration-related headlines have become a staple in Europe, whether the story is of an illegal Malian immigrant scaling a Paris building to rescue a toddler or the formation of a populist government in Italy that aims to deport a half-million migrants.
Judging by my years spent studying the international migration of highly skilled workers, not to mention living as an immigrant, a rational and balanced debate on immigration must begin with the perspective of immigrants themselves.
Ziemiak has openly criticized Germany’s admission of economic migrants, even though he is an immigrant from Poland.
America's Isolationist TemptationWASHINGTON: For over a month now, I have been working at one of the best-known American think tanks, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, funded before World War I by Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant who became one of the richest - and certainly the most generous - men in America.
From 2000 to 2010, it had eight times more patents filed by an immigrant (194,600) than its closest competitor, Germany (25,300).
The blurring of the lines between refugee and immigrant has made it virtually impossible to make compelling arguments in favor of proper refugee protection or more effective immigration policy.
When a CNN correspondent named Jim Acosta, the son of a Cuban immigrant, challenged Trump’s senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, by stating that the US traditionally welcomed the world’s poor, most of whom did not speak any English, Miller accused Acosta of “cosmopolitan bias.”
The immigrant receives a higher wage than at home, and the target country benefits from cheap labor, which creates more value than it costs.
She was betrayed by her own former ally, Rita Verdonk, and a variety of Dutch xenophobes, who don’t like an outspoken black female immigrant from Somalia any more than they like Muslims.
Youth unemployment, including the female population, averages 23%, while in deprived suburbs with concentrated immigrant populations, the rate hits 70%.
A skilled Nigerian immigrant in the US, for example, has more opportunities there than if he returned to Nigeria.
In other words, a change in people’s idea of the average immigrant may have made them more supportive of immigration generally.
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