Sentences with phrase «of polish immigrants»

The influx of Polish immigrants after 2005 boosted the performance of native children in school, a new study has found.

Otherwise liberal gay campaigners were horrified at the wave of Polish immigrants who arrived in the UK following EU expansion.

The son of Polish immigrants, he worked his way through school by holding numerous jobs and «sleeping very little.»

DISCERNING DISCOMFORT AT POLISH WORSHIP Dear Father Editor, I read with interest William Oddie's comments on the recent phenomenon of Polish immigrants to England and their demonstrably evident devotion to their Catholic faith.

And in 2007, the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski made international headlines when he died after five Taser shots from police at the Vancouver International Airport.

Two B.C. lawyers, who have been critical of police investigating police - related deaths or serious injury incidents, believe the B.C. government's announcement last month to establish a civilian review body will go a long way in restoring public confidence in police after the high - profile tasering death of polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport in 2007.

He successfully defended the authority of the Braidwood Inquiry into the YVR Airport death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski against court challenges by Taser International and four RCMP officers involved.

Not exact matches

When Jobe launched New Life Community Church 25 years ago, the Midway neighborhood where his main campus is located was primarily populated by descendants of Polish, Lithuanian and Italian immigrants.

You want to preach about how they should play by our rules, why not play by the rules of the native americans, they were here first, or how about by the rules of the Irish immigrants they came here before the polish ones, or how about remembering where this country came from, who we were, and what we stood for, and then getting out of our own way to allow our country to be restored to the glory that it once was.

Think of how immigrant congregations fought over changing the liturgy to English, or of the battles that took place when Irish clergy were sent to serve Polish parishes.

If you doubt that, search out one of the Churches in England which has been given new life by Polish immigrants.

There are about one million Polish immigrants in the Chicago area, as many as one - third of them undocumented.

Russian and Polish immigrants are particularly drawn by district and community services, said Trisha Dean, assistant principal of student services.

Once the hub of the city's Polish immigrant community, the triangle sits roughly along the border of the Wicker Park, East Village and Noble Square neighborhoods, in a Hispanic area that's quickly being diluted by a growing population of yuppies.

Mr Stenzel and Joanna Mludzinska of the Polish Social and Cultural Association both claimed that many immigrants had faced bullying at work since the poll including hurtful comments from customers as well as discrimination by bosses

Miliband was born in the Fitzrovia district of Central London to Polish Jewish immigrants, Marion Kozak, and Ralph Miliband (died 1994); a Marxist intellectual who was a native of Brussels that fled Belgium during World War II.

Polish immigrants didn't have that choice because Britain was one of just three EU countries which decided it would be better to adopt free movement earlier than other EU member states.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus was born to impoverished Polish immigrants in the Bronx, New York in 1930, at the start of the Great Depression.

Born Leon Marcus Uris in Baltimore, MD, in 1924, he was the second child of Wolf William Uris and the former Alma Blumberg, both Polish - Jewish immigrants.

In Maya Forbes» indie Black plays Polish immigrant Jan Lewan — who became the «King of Pennsylvania Polka» in the 1990s, bribing and cheating investors along the way.

Following up HER, his second film, The Immigrant, is a story of a young polish immigrant named Ewa (Marion CoImmigrant, is a story of a young polish immigrant named Ewa (Marion Coimmigrant named Ewa (Marion Cotillard).

This morose tale of a beautiful Polish immigrant caught in a sick love triangle with her pimp (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wacko magician brother (Jeremy Renner) is unrelentingly bleak, pretentious, and looked like it was shot through a glass full of piss.

Polish writer - director Pawel Pawlikowski pulls the viewer right into the anxiety - drowned heart of a young, naive Russian immigrant in «Last Resort,» a visceral, intimate drama that takes place in an internment camp for political refugees...

The team of artists set the story at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, complete with the protagonist becoming a Polish immigrant's daughter and an appearance by Buffalo Bill.

«Lowlife» Synopsis: In search of a new start and the American dream, a Polish immigrant is manipulated into a life of prostitution by a charming but wicked man on the mean streets of Manhattan, until a dazzling magician tries to save her.

The magnum opus of Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric and paranoid Polish immigrant with the looks of a B - movie vampire and a mess of personal issues about women, The Room is nearly an anti-film — an inane and unintentionally surreal soap opera, filled with non sequiturs, confused characters, and gratuitous, anatomically incorrect sex.

The entire series is about me moving to Germany; what it's like for an immigrant of mixed ideas (Polish - Canadian - lover - of - Italy) to settle into this country.

Located in West Rutland, Vermont amid inactive quarries and former manufacturing facilities of the Vermont Marble Company, the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center (CSSC) is located on a site where the labor of Italian, Swedish, Polish, German, Hungarian and other immigrants has made a significant impact on the ways we commemorate, remember, and memorialize.

Born in 1937 in Queens, New York, Harvey Quaytman was the son of Polish - Russian Jewish immigrants.

The son of Polish Jewish immigrants, David Bomberg grew up in East London.

Norman's experience as a Polish - Jewish immigrant helped to shape his understanding of American society, and he often seemed to observe life in the United States with the shrewd and detached eye of an outsider.

Standing at the confluence of the Maumee, St Joseph and St. Mary's Rivers, an impressive manufacturing base was built from commerce and transportation trades as German, Polish and Irish immigrants furnished labor for automobile and utility companies.