Sentences with phrase «as an immigrant»

Most of us have succeeded because of admissions policies that took our race, class, and unique experiences as immigrants and children of immigrants into consideration.

Curious if as an immigrant from a country rife with poverty, poor education, environmental and land management issues she sees the irony?

There are credit cards for all different stripes of first - timers — such as immigrants, students and those with no credit.

You make really good points on this, especially as an immigrant who came here legally.

I came to this country as an immigrant and I will always protect the rights of those who seek refuge here.

Audience members who do not self - identify as immigrants will be privileged listeners to this dialogue.

As an immigrant entrepreneur, I'm going to continue with business as usual.

As immigrants move to large cities almost exclusively, increased immigration is the fastest (and only) way to grow our cities.

I'm embedded in her work because as an immigrant and a woman I'm in a constant state of displacement.

As immigrants change each region's character, the region will shape them as well.

And no matter how long I stay there, I will be viewed as an immigrant.

As an immigrant daughter, I think maybe I was already geared toward the importance of cultural stories from a place that I didn't live.

If she isn't quite believable as an immigrant woman, perhaps its because of the demands she is working against.

Using the motivation that I had developed as an immigrant, I was willing to sacrifice in the short term, to gain experience and opportunity to propel me into my career.

Still, launching a business as an immigrant came with its fair share of challenges.

«We are not going to allow our police officers to be used as immigrant enforcement agents,» said the mayor.

The demand decline occurred as the immigrant flow decreased in the local real estate markets they had targeted.

However, she admitted that teachers, who don't have similar experiences as immigrants, are challenged with understanding their students.

As an immigrant from 1953 I have benefited enormously from growing up here.

She shares her experiences as an artist, as well as her personal journey as an immigrant and how it has influenced her creative process.

In Didier Drogba's honest and revealing autobiography he will talk about life as an immigrant in Paris, the importance of his education and how finding success later than most professional footballers has kept him grounded.In 2012 Didier was voted Chelsea's greatest ever player.

Jorge Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bilingual children's books capture the stories and landscape of his beloved homeland as well as the immigrant experience in the U.S.. His poetry for children and adults has appeared in numerous anthologies and textbooks.

Throughout the book, told in alternating stories of refugee camps in Africa and living as an immigrant in affluent American suburbs as a foster child, the reader comes to realize that even as a successful American citizen, Clemantine has yet to come...

«My parents came here as immigrants in the sixties and my dad would tell me stories of when he first came here by himself and my mum was still in Pakistan.

Fellow countryman Guillermo del Toro, winner of the Best Director award, stressed his status as an immigrant on stage and described his film The Shape of Water as a «fairytale for troubled times» and a work expressing «empathy for the outsider», a less overt attack on the US President's attitude to the «bad hombres» in his homeland across the border.

He came to the United States as an immigrant from Haiti at the age of 13.

Maragos stresses his story as an immigrant who built a successful financial technology business before his upset win for county comptroller in 2009.

The situation of the individual within the rugged terrain of their life comes home softly as her light touch in rendering form contrasts with the circumstance of lives as varied as the immigrant child and the displaced citizen.

The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.

The Social Gospel rose out of the excesses of the Gilded Age in the 1880s, when urban poverty spread across America as immigrants crammed into filthy slums to work long hours in unsafe conditions.

Narayan is an astute observer, particularly of herself, noting: «The reason I want to buy milk from a cow is because I am trying to recapture the simple times of my childhood, particularly after the intricate dance that I have undertaken for the last twenty years as an immigrant in America.

She seemed a simple hero who climbed, steadfast, over every barrier placed in her path: the language barrier, the barrier of being a single mother, the barrier of finding work as an immigrant in the midst of the depression.

The church want more illiterate people as immigrants to be flock of ignorant people in mass and benefit from those financially.

The Conservative assumption was that as the immigrant population died out, European - style Orthodoxy would slowly disappear, a victim of upward social and economic mobility, acculturation, and Americanization, and that Conservative Judaism would fill the resulting vacuum.

Under the Act, children adopted abroad can automatically acquire U.S. citizenship if: at least one parent of the child is a U.S. citizen; the child is under the age of 18; the child is admitted to the U.S. as an immigrant for lawful permanent residence; and the adoption is final.

(This guide explains how to build credit as an immigrant.)

It is not easy to overlook such barbed attacks on your identity as immigrants, minorities, or the disabled.

When was the last time Roman Abramovich or Kevin Spacey were described as an immigrant?

The entrepreneur's death sent shock waves through the Caribbean community in New York, where he was seen as an immigrant success story, and in Jamaica.

Confer said the city has a five - borough strategy but plans to prioritize certain communities, referencing the city's work in the South Bronx, central Brooklyn and parts of Queens, as well as immigrant communities.

After the comptroller said his views had evolved — «and that I felt as an immigrant that I did not belong in the Republican Party» — Curran raised his touting of far - right positions on health care and climate change while running for U.S. Senate in 2012.