Sentences with phrase «boat people»

Because I come from boat people the first thing I thought was, it looks like line used in boating.

We are boat people as well, and dog, and wine at lunch, and coffee on the porch.

Tens of thousands of Ugandan Asians were saved from the tyranny of Idi Amin in the 1970s, while in the 1980s we accepted thousands of boat people fleeing Vietnam.

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We used kayaks as kind of a [an] allure; people we met, most of them who [whom] are fisherman, boating people who accepted us as brother and sisters, depending on the makeup of the team; and never once — expect [except] for one of the trips — never once did they ask us what are you doing here, because they all assumed that everybody travels by kayak or travels by boat.

The Pacific holds the restless memories of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the plight of Vietnamese boat people on the China Sea.

Lyra is helped by a talking armored bear, boat people called Gyptians, a Texan aeronaut balloonist and several wise witches.

Beset by mobs of drunk Europeans, rank punters, terrorism in their south, waves of middle eastern «businessmen,» Nigerian drug gangs in downtown Bangkok, and now muslim boat people.

When the word «boom» is applied to all this activity on the boating scene, boat people wince.

Why are they acting like malnourished boat people rather than, I don't know, the most powerful people on the planet?

She was one of many boat people, and this aspect of the story might well be modeled after Vu Tran's real - life experiences where he and most of his family were refugees at Pulau Bidong before passage to Oklahoma.

Xaviera Simmons's boat people fill a lobby wall — just down the hall from her photographs of foreclosed housing.

The island of Lampedusa between Sicily and Tunisia is one of the first ports of call for boat people from Africa.

The Sri Lankan boat people just want to live in a country where the serious issues of the day relate to questions on a census form, the shenanigans of Bill Vander Zalm and the HST, and back - to - school shopping.

Danh Vo went from boat person to a treasurer of family and collective memories.

«We'd just hammer each other,» recalls Pham, who came to the United States in 1980 as part of the exodus of Vietnamese «boat people,» got into MIT, and eventually found his way to Silicon Valley.

When Gallup asked a similar question in 1979 about Vietnamese refugees or «boat people,» nearly 60 percent of Americans (57 %) affirmed that refugees would be welcomed in their community, while 30 % said they would not be.

Experience your feelings... Now picture a tiny dot on the horizon... Gradually you can make out the shape of a small boat... The boat is approaching the shore; as it reaches the beach you see in the boat the person who is most important to you.

Here in Oklahoma in the 70 - 80's, large numbers of Vietnamese refugees made it here, some of them «boat people».

The drama of the boat people is our present demanding reminder that Jesus» definition of a «neighbour» is a very costly thing.

We begin to develop a degree of empathy only after they have become «boat people,» so to speak.

We actually responded generously to the crisis respecting the so - called «boat people» from Viet Nam and environs fleeing their homeland about 30 years ago.

This influx of tourists is good for the local economy, and since we can see the docked ships from our porch, we don't go into town when the hoards of «boat people» are there, so they don't bother us.

Thousands of «boat people», mostly from Africa, attempt each year to cross the Mediterranean in overcrowded and frequently unseaworthy vessels in order to enter the southernmost EU member states.

And on Kings day a lot of boats are on the canals.Below: this is what the boat people look like.Below: nifty little clothes hangers.Below: more orange.Below: what a lovely and beautiful family.

May 20, 2015 • The «boat people,» as they've been called, have been stranded at sea for weeks with little food or water.

In the 1990s the rules tightened up again to prevent «boat people» from finding domicile, and in 2007 a ban was placed on refugees from Africa to stem the tide of immigrants from Sudan.

Not a boat person?

People say this bar and restaurant is «a dangerous bar in a safe harbor», so come and have fun with sailors, boat people, and Capitain Oliver's guests, who also come for a drink or two.

His video work examines national identity, often specifically with reference to the displacement experienced by the Vietnamese «boat people».

Nguyen - Hatsushiba's films explore Vietnamese history and national identity, and have referenced issues such as the displacement of Vietnamese «boat people» after the Vietnam War.

Returning to Toronto for a weekend, Adelman began wading through six weeks of newspapers and was stunned to see the Vietnamese «boat people» crisis had exploded across the news during his absence.

Peter Goodspeed asks in The Star, «Can Canada duplicate its boat people rescue with Syrian refugees?»

One of the families was one of the first «boat people» admitted to the country and the other was from a country that was terrorized by rebels revolting against the government.