Sentences with phrase «many boat people»

Catholic Charities here has fed, clothed, sheltered many people, including a large population of refugees from the Vietnam war, many of them «boat people».

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 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.

By foot, wagon, horse, and boat people moved into the new territory.

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».

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Much like the two - faced Janus of Greek myth, the Sympathizer is forever looking both forward and back — forward to a time when he and the people he reports to can make a comeback in Vietnam, and back to his life in the United States, one of the many «boat people» the country is forced to accommodate, all an uncomfortable reminder of an inglorious outcome: «The majority of Americans regarded us with ambivalence if not outright distaste, we being living reminders of their stinging defeat.

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.

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».

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

Not exact matches

But if you keep your prices reasonable and become known for taking extra good care of the boats you transport, you may find people hiring you to take care of this for them anyway.

«And unless we do it on our own — unless people speak out and talk about how we can be better, and we can lift all boats versus just the 1 percent — We're in for a really bad time.

People will jump into balloons or boats and take enormous risks when they're in their 20s and 30s with a long life ahead of them.

Emergency crews plucked people from rooftops using aircraft, dump trucks, and boats as the floodwaters rose.

U.S. Coast Guard air units and boats have rescued more than 4,000 people, Captain Kevin Oditt, commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston - Galveston, said at an afternoon news conference.

A wheelhouse shelters the person steering a boat but in business, it refers to a person's specialty area.

About 1,500 boats and 100,000 people will gather in South Florida for the event, which is considered by many to be the Super Bowl of boat shows.

The people who hired her believed that they wanted someone who would «rock the boat» and «make waves.»

There are people standing next to me talking about «this lad who accidentally named a boat Boaty McBoatface».

Since launching KingFisher more than 20 years ago, he and his management team have built the 150 - person company into the market leader in the heavy - gauge welded aluminum boat category.

In my mind's eye, I see the people in bright - colored jackets mingling about on the boat, the sun sinking low in the horizon like a red globe, and the aluminum flagpole that made a strange whispering sound.

When you strip down the complicated investment vehicles — now being peddled for pennies on the dollar — there are people like Jack Hamersma, a boat salesman Packer wrote about who lost his job, was diagnosed with cancer and then had his house foreclosed upon.

«Lots of people miss the boat in terms of call - to - action.

When I turn to the right, I basically see my boat and two people in it, and they're giving me instructions and that's what I focus on.

When people used to go fishing, they would put the fish in water in the hold of the boat.

He proposes a multi-step process for boat burning that includes testing the proposed tool or model, running a pilot, communicating the change, training people in the revised system and creating a support squad to solve problems along the way.

But vision and people skills are, in a sense, table stakes: you need those things just to get the boat headed in the right direction and to keep it more - or-less on course.

If I'd mentioned that a person in the boat had a heart condition, this might prompt a decision to immediately return to the lodge.

There are a lot of people in that same boat, which is a clear and present problem for Twitter.

Every couple of days a boat would dock with the groceries people had ordered.

I'm in the same boat as a few other posters and I don't see it being a great choice to lend to people who aren't getting approved at larger banks.

Private boat owners coming from all over to help evacuate people from homes around Houston.

«There were so many calls for rescues, so many people trapped on overpasses, on houses, in their cars, we were scrambling to find boats and dump trucks, anything to maneuver in high water,» said Hayes.

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Five have died in the flooding so far, with citizens and rescuers dodging light poles and power lines in boats as they try to rescue people in stranded neighborhoods.