Sentences with phrase «1980s left the country»

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Castro himself was rather upfront about the departing citizens: «Those that are leaving from Mariel are the scum of the country... who are welcome to leave Cuba if any country will have them,» he scoffed at a 1980 May Day celebration during the height of the migration.

Like many talented Chinese researchers, he left the country in the 1980s to study overseas.

Various actors and actresses have won Academy Award acting Oscars for their tour - de-force biopic performances, such as James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), George C. Scott as the cantakerous WWII General Patton in the widely - acclaimed Patton (1970), Katharine Hepburn as King Henry II's Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), Sissy Spacek as legendary country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Daniel Day - Lewis as Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), and Ben Kingsley as the charismatic, pacifist, 20th century Indian spiritual leader Mahatma in Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982).

In the 1980s, he left the region to study traditional painting and calligraphy at the Shandong University of Art and Design and in the mid-1990s moved to Berlin, where he was asked to curate a show to promote cultural exchange between the two countries and then teach at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Scottish artists of the postwar generation followed Colquhoun and MacBryde to London, and until the 1980s, almost without exception, artists had to leave this country in order to achieve any kind of international recognition.

If the children have been taken to a country with which the UK is a signatory to a relevant international treaty (such as The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980) then the left behind parent can seek the children's return using this treaty.