Sentences with phrase «like most immigrants»

I think it's partly because I was not born in this country so like most immigrants, I have a natural fascination with its history.

When Mily got to this country like most immigrants, she worked in different places and attended school at the same time but immediately she tried looking for a job related with animals which is her passion.

If you're like most immigrants to Canada, one of the things you'll almost certainly want to consider is buying a home to settle into.

Not exact matches

By their very nature, immigrants are risk - takers, and some of our most successful are foreign - born, like Elon Musk of Tesla (South Africa), Google's Sergey Brin (Russia) and investor George Soros (Hungary).

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

They've bought up the government, and bought up most of the news media, and invented scapegoats like blacks and immigrants and women and Mooslims, to make sure people blame somebody, anybody, except them for this parlous state of affairs.

In America, Hinduism's profile was elevated by Indian immigrants who brought their customs and rituals with them and perhaps most recently, by the growing popularity of Hindu teachings like yoga and meditation.

«To watch a mostly Cuban - American crowd at a Miami Heat basketball game or at an event at the Orange Bowl or at the new Joe Robbie stadium in North Miami belting out «The Star - Spangled Banner» was to witness what appeared on the surface like the most old - fashioned, fervent expression of immigrant patriotism,» writes Rieff.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

illegal or undocu - mented immigrants do jobs like picking fruit by hand, bailing hay and other manuel labour that most snotty americans think they are too good to do.

Evangelicals, like most Americans, are more likely to favor a path to citizenship for Dreamers (54 %) than undocumented immigrants overall (43 %), according to a poll conducted this spring by Morning Consult and Politico.

While this might seem like a local issue, we can't ignore the fact that most illegal immigrants reach Greece (and thus the EU) through Turkey.

Among the most notable were the Chinese Tongs, especially in the Western United States, which, like the «political machines» of Catholic immigrants in the Northeast, often veered into corruption and gang - like activities (which a gang also being a sort of political identity and citizenship).

Most of my fellow taxi drivers are minorities, immigrants like myself,» said Foso.

Rather than collaborate on mutual goals, like higher wages and immigrants» rights, the state's two most powerful Democrats spent much of this year at loggerheads, by turns frustrated and baffled by the other, unable to find common ground and, ultimately, powerless to overcome a stubborn, unsettled Legislature.

«Like most New Yorkers, he doesn't believe taxpayers should cover the cost of free college tuition for illegal immigrants while hardworking, middle - class families here legally take out student loans that will take them years to repay,» a spokesman for Mr. Skelos, Scott Reif, said.

Most of the cash, which goes towards assisting hundreds of nonprofit groups citywide, is earmarked for progressive causes like bilingual education services, legal services for immigrants and aid for gay, bisexual and transgender persons.

The collection includes the earliest surviving sea chart — a 14th - century map of the Mediterranean showing coastlines, ports, and hazards like sandbanks — and a secret Nazi map, drawn in 1940, that uses pie charts to indicate the location of white immigrants to the United States (presumably those most amenable to propaganda to keep the country out of World War II).

A Ciambra is intimate and documentary - like, approaching and then backing away from larger issues of marginalized and immigrant communities, showing rather than preaching, and most importantly, prioritizing Pio's adolescent face and the way his eyes scrutinize his surroundings as they constantly look for opportunity, weak spots to break through.

On a day of mourning for cinema, it is reassuring to see a film like Sugar, an exquisitely filmed, well acted and narratively bold film that takes a smart, and most important, human look at an Illegal immigrant and a story behind so many baseball players we see.

«But condos keep homeownership accessible to many potential buyers like younger people and recent immigrants who are drawn to the urban regions of Toronto and Vancouver, but who are the most constrained by affordability.»

Immigrants, like most U.S. - born Americans, have a desire for single - family homeownership, according to the report.