Sentences with phrase «came to this country in»

They came to this country in droves in the 40s very, very quietly.

Presumably, Muslims did not come to this country in order to be permanently marginalised.

Im a muslim born and raised in cali, my great grandfather came to this country in the late 1890s and joined the army, he fought in ww1, was honorably discharged in 1917 and i hate this show

Her reason for coming to this country in 2006 was to put her daughter Karla through nursing school in Mexico.

Bevin Magama, who came to this country in early 2000, used to work in Zimbabwean Air Force as an air - surveyor.

Today, as in the past, immigrants come to our country in search of their American Dream.

As immigrants, my parents came to this country in search of opportunity, and taught me from their experience the power that education has to open doors.

When forty - year - old Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård, one of Norway's top cops, comes to the United States in the summer of 2008 to look for her missing older brother Marcus, she's coming to a country in turmoil.

Here's where I hilariously turn into my dad; who came to this country in the 1960s, illiterate and went into business, never filling out a W - 2 in his life.

Mily was born in Havana, Cuba and came to this country in 1996 at the age of nineteen.

Carolina became a US citizen in 2009 and that day she wrote: «It was one of my dreams when I came to this country in 2001 to be sworn in as a citizen of the United States.

Not exact matches

ON January 1, one of the most significant changes to Australia's industrial relations landscape in the country's history came into effect.

In a country that has been devoutly Catholic for centuries, Varadkar is Ireland's first openly gay leader; his coming out in 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriagIn a country that has been devoutly Catholic for centuries, Varadkar is Ireland's first openly gay leader; his coming out in 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriagin 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriagin clinching the law to legalize gay marriage.

«We've been coming to SXSW for years, but [now are] actually doing something that is meaningful for companies, that actually shows and inspires the entrepreneurial spirit across the country in every market,» he added.

Here's a crazy idea when it comes to wireless roaming: how about Canadians being able to use their one and only cellphones with the same single numbers in whatever countries they want at a reasonable cost without having to jump through all kinds of hoops?

Steve Case's new $ 150 million venture fund dedicated to the flyover states is great, tangible proof of the tech world's interest in bringing the rest of the country along for the economic growth that comes from the innovation economy.

Some workers may get arrested in the operations but authorities are targeting employers because they are job magnets for people to come to the country illegally.

Padoan said countries like Italy are «doing their homework» when it comes to reducing risk in the euro area in areas like non-performing loans and debt reduction.

The insinuation is that old habits die hard and some firms have these arrangements in place because their advisors were accustomed to earning trailer fees before they came over from the Old Country.

LOS ANGELES — The Golden State may produce more solar energy than anywhere else in the country, but when it comes to being green, there are «two Californias,» says Assemblywoman Susan Eggman.

Oil - importing countries in the Middle East and Central Asia region are to beat their oil - exporting counterparts in the growth stakes in coming years, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest regional outlook.

As of 2014, in terms of total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP and measured per capita, Norway came in at No. 2 out of 35 countries ($ 37,682 USD), Denmark at No. 3 ($ 30,630 USD), and Iceland came in at No. 9 ($ 20,418 USD), according to the OECD.

«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.»

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that the streaming - video provider is now in more than 160 countries worldwide, with more to come.

«It is just not acceptable to ever think that it should be commonplace in our country for people to send their kids to school in the morning and not know if they're going to come home at the end of the day,» Deutch said.

The answer to that concern came in the form of the technology that now underpins crucial parts of Estonia's system, as well as some of its most successful startups, and that, in the years ahead, could help power the country's future growth: the blockchain.

There are some extremely talented people in this country, but for us a hire ultimately comes down to the cultural fit.

Trump's widely reported comment, which the White House did not deny, came Thursday during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on immigration in which he used the term to describe Haiti and African countries and instead expressed an interest in accepting immigrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he had spoken with the day before.

One of the biggest names in the auto industry is concerned with potential changes to free trade amid the new protectionist rhetoric that is coming from countries including the U.S.

Greece's bailout expires at the end of the month, at which a $ 1.6 billion payment to the IMF will come due, and European leaders are scrambling to avoid a Greek default amid accelerating bank withdrawals in the troubled country.

Sandberg's visit to Germany comes after the country's parliament passed a law in June to introduce fines of up to 50 million euros ($ 59 million) for social media networks if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly.

Startups came from around the country (and some flew in from Europe and Asia) to participate in the demo day.

«The names on this letter are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in this country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a dangerous place,» his statement read.

He has proposed tariffs and taxes on goods coming in to this country (for example, a 35 % import tax on goods from Mexico) and considers China to be more enemy than rival.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

Instead of welcoming foreign talent with open arms, Canada makes it exceedingly difficult for them to come to or stay in this country, even at a time when the thriving technology sector is in dire need of skilled knowledge workers.

The company is set to open stores this month in two Ontario malls, and if all goes well, Hot Topic will launch several other locations across the country in the coming year.

Bush says many fellows who come to work in the US from other countries are surprised by the systemic problems they encounter in poor urban areas.

Nearly 5 million Syrians have fled the country in a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people and pitted multiple warring sides against each other, including jihadists who have come to dominate the insurgency in many areas.

While the full scope of the damage has yet to be determined, outpourings of concern and offerings of assistance have come in from every corner of the nation and other countries, particularly from members of the business community.

Many of these suppliers also sell to the defence sector, where spending is likely to decline in coming years as countries, especially the U.S., try to reduce their deficits.

The Trump - Xi phone call came as Japan set up a missile - defense system in western areas of the country, following a threat by North Korea to fire missiles over Japan toward the U.S. territory of Guam.

I wondered how the product would do in a country that ranks lower than Rwanda when it comes to upload speeds.

Sixty - five years later, the U.S. Army and Navy veterans have come back to the country where they once served to watch the Olympics Games in Pyeongchang.

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

Sixty - five years later, they've come back to the country where they once served to watch the games in Pyeongchang.

In the revised version of the immigration order, the Trump administration will continue to allow citizens of Iraq to come into the U.S.. Additionally, the order no longer features a provision allowing religious minorities from banned countries into the U.S..

The night after they obtained a guilty verdict against one defendant, in 2011, prosecutors and their staff spent a total of $ 763.80 for dinner at a country club (divided by the 18 individuals present, that comes out to $ 42.39 each).

Sweden came in second place, with visa - free access to 176 countries.