Sentences with word «emigres»

«The Brighton beach and Sheepshead Bay sections of Brooklyn have been headquarters for a smattering of emigre Russian crime gangs since the 1970s,» wrote Sewlyn Raab, an expert in organized crime, for the New York Times in 1994.

Mr. Lassaw was born in 1913 in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian emigre parents who moved their family to New York City in 1921.

Developer Quintet played to its strengths with ActRaiser; the studio had come into existence as a coalition of emigres from action - RPG pioneer Nihon Falcom, and for the studio's debut project they drew on their experience with simple but effective role - playing elements as a way to bind everything together.

Given the allegations of abuse against undocumented emigres by ICE officials and operators of jails under its watch, these children and young adults are also likely to be beaten, tortured and harmed.

Particularly intriguing is the possibility that Mr. Katz's use of expanses of saturated color reflects not only the influence of Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing style when he was coming of age as an artist in New York City in the early 1950's, but also the impact of his parents, bohemian Russian emigres who tended to paint the rooms of their Sheepshead Bay home in Brooklyn in strange, intense colors and unusual patterns.

Marion Cotillard was named best actress for her performances in two films, «The Immigrant,» as a Polish emigre in New York, and «Two Days, One Night,» as a young mother desperate to save her job.

As many expected, the Trump Administration announced Tuesday that it would end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the initiative started under the Obama Administration that protects 760,000 undocumented emigres brought to this country as children from deportation.

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

Palmeiro says he also leaned on the lessons he learned from his demanding father, Jose, a Cuban emigre who moved his family of five from Havana to Miami in 1971, when Rafael was seven, and later whip - cracked Rafael through the after - school workouts that produced his sweet swing and self - punishing mind - set.

We get an up - close look at her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre whose scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film, Ecstasy, caused such an enormous international uproar that even the Pope was moved to denounce it.

Unlike many of the directors on this list, German emigre Ernest Lubitsch was one of the great film artists who was recognized in his time.

Suburban districts also serve plenty of poor families, especially Latino emigres and other first - generation Americans toiling for their piece of the streets of gold.

During the early 1930's she took a master class at Mills College with the Russian - born modernist sculptor Alexander Archipenko and also met such Bauhaus emigres as Laszlo Moholy - Nagy and Gyorgy Kepes.

Lee (Lenore) Krasner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 27, 1908, to Russian emigre parents, Joseph and Anna Krasner (Krassner).

The FCO has a great opportunity in London, which is just about the capital of world dissidents, to engage with emigres and learn from them what we can't find out on the ground.

These artists benefitted from the arrival in the 1930s of constructivist emigres such as Gropius, Moholy - Nagy and Gabo as they helped advance the cause of British avant - garde.

The bipartisan Senate plan would attempt to maintain TPS in return for ending or changing a «diversity» lottery program that has been aimed at allowing up to 50,000 people a year from countries with few emigres to the United States.

Others allow emigres to live among them but refuses citizenship.

In 2011, when we had a wide - ranging conversation in Rome, Major - Archbishop Shevchuk might have looked forward to three and a half decades of work building his Church in Ukraine and strengthening the links between the motherland and Ukrainian emigres around the world.

In May 2018, The Telegraph reported that Osborne and his siblings had discovered «with delight» that their maternal grandmother Clarisse Loxton - Peacock (a glamorous Hungarian emigre) was Jewish, and therefore that in Jewish law they are Jewish too.

A 2008 documentary, Sugar Babies, exposed the substandard living and labor conditions of Haitian emigres working the Fanjuls» fields.

The seat previously belonged to Alec Brook - Krasny, the first emigre from the former Soviet Union elected to public office in New York.

After the 66 - year - old emigre from China was brutally attacked in 1997 and had her throat slashed, she -LSB-...]

One recent 20 - something emigre to NYC from a small town found himself enthralled by choice: «so many women, so little time.»

It is less interested in, but doesn't abandon completely, the more conventional thriller hugger - mugger, following the mysterious - assassin pattern, also finding time to stalk various murderous ploys and counterploys in a riven emigre community even while the dangerous arrival of the political leader to the U.N. draws closer and closer.

The total is about two thirds of «Spotlight» so far, but this Irish emigre tale (which has expanded more slowly) is close to even with the latter film.

But German emigre scientist Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) recognizes his dedication and recruits him for Project Rebirth, a top - secret, experimental procedure, transforming him into the cell - enhanced, invincible Super Soldier known as Captain America.

Crialese, himself an Italian emigre, displays a wonderfully observant eye and deft touch for comedy and dialogue.

He is that rare sports - world emigre to the big screen: beefcake with an unerring instinct for the absurd.

Deporting these undocumented emigres also means breaking up families, putting those children into child welfare systems incapable of providing them with opportunities for brighter futures.

Nor can the nation's struggles to provide high - quality education to the children of collegians be blamed on the nation's high levels of immigration; 55.2 percent of high school sophomores in Australia, which, like the United States, has a large immigrant population (with 40 percent of emigres coming from developing Asian countries such as Vietnam and Thailand), scored proficient on the exam.

Things will likely get worse for immigrant children will likely in the next few months if the Trump Administration moves to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the initiative started under the Obama Administration to exempt emigres brought to the country as children from deportation.

Ketch, a new and damaged emigre to North Carolina's picturesque Outer Banks, simply wants to be alone.

The all - American Pollock in de Kooning's phrase «broke the ice for all of us», blazed briefly, and burnt out; the Russian emigre Mark Rothko became boxed in by an introverted abstract style.

He had been a founding member of the short lived but influential Dublin based White Stag Group, a collection of like - minded artists and musicians including the British emigres Neville Johnson and Stephen Gilbert.

«The villain is the 20th century,» says emigre film - maker Jonas Mekas in Douglas Gordon's pompous, empty feature film about this counterculture celebrity's early life.

A site - specific visual environment created in the first floor gallery incorporates the personal narratives of recent emigres from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bhutan, Iraq and Cuba to create a positive, public dialogue about community, similar to the artists» previous projects in Armenia, Republic of Georgia and Romania.

Her cohorts included Eastern European Modernist emigres Alexander Archipenko, György Kepes and László Moholy - Nagy, avant - garde sculptors who pioneered experimentation with materials from industrial metal to plastic, and with structures informed by scientific theory.

Henri Gaudier - Brzeska An examination of the brilliant French emigre who brought avant - garde energy to Britain on the eve of the first world war.

One firm rumored to have pushed for a pre-sale allocation is Mail.Ru Group (formerly DST), founded by Russian emigre Yuri Milner.

For generations Cuban emigres have settled here, creating a neighborhood pulsing with life, from its many colorful art galleries to its busy restaurants.

Kravtsov, who grew up in Ukraine in the Soviet Union, which provided him with a free education and a guaranteed job, came to this country in 1980 in a wave of Soviet Jewish emigres.

The reality is that Trump, whose successful campaign has been based on accusing undocumented immigrants (especially Latino emigres) of being «rapists» and «bad hombres», is engaged in a low - grade form of ethnic cleansing.

While the regime argues that a potential lawsuit from attorneys general in 10 states forced its hand, the reality is that federal immigration law gives it wide latitude in how it handles undocumented emigres, especially those who are children.

Nicolas Cage stars as Yuri, a Russian emigre in New York's Little Odessa who climbs out of poverty by running guns and worse to and from the world's flashpoints.

Mitchell - Innes & Nash have mounted an elegant exhibition of 1950s paintings and sculptures by Alexander Liberman (1912 - 1999), a Russian emigre who became an influential Vogue art director.

For the former, see various decrees on the confiscation of the property of emigres from the Bolshevik controlled geographic Soviets.

Dyn was a little - known journal published in Mexico City between 1942 and 1944 by a group of emigre artists, thinkers, and poets previously affiliated with Surrealism.

Fursenko also set up a system of multimillion dollar competitive grants to attract foreign researchers and emigres to come to Russian universities and set up labs there.

In the 1950s, for example, the French government «invited» well - known troublemakers among Russian exiles and emigres to stay in country mansions or comfortable hotels during an important visit by Soviet dignitaries.