Sentences with phrase «immigrant groups then»

Viewed as a tool for assimilating the various immigrant groups then entering the United States, they were overtly used to teach explicitly Christian and, at least implicitly, Protestant, values.

If one were to discount ethnic minorities and immigrant groups then that figure would doubtlessly be considerably higher.

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She rose from immigrant roots up the industry ladder to become creative lead of her own multimillion - dollar women's wear fashion brand, and then endured a series of nasty breakups — first with her ex-husband and then with Jones Apparel Group, the fashion behemoth that licensed and marketed her creations.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

Then the group found Janet McIntyre, a 20th - century immigrant rights advocate who provided the loan.

«If somebody thinks that donating to community groups that fight for communities of color and immigrants is corruption then they are obviously not paying attention to New York politics,» Nixon said.

On the other side of the fence, in rural Arizona, Tim «Nailer» Foley leads an armed group of rough, tough Marlboro men who at first go after illegal immigrants who allegedly take jobs away from Americans, then turn their attention to drug smugglers.

To conclude then, it was shown that among young people in the immigrant populations studied here the preferred level of parental influence on mate choice was relatively high, and that opposition against mating with members of other ethnic groups was an important factor underlying the preferred level of parental influence on mate choice.