Sentences with phrase «started by an immigrant»

For instance, the Levi's brand was started by an immigrant who made tough pants for prospectors during the California gold rush.

When you consider that some of the world's most famous companies were started by immigrants to a country, there is a real risk that governments slowly throttle the business environment that fostered these companies to start up in the first place and create hundreds of thousands of jobs along the way.

Not exact matches

Indian immigrants were responsible for more than quarter of those start - ups — followed by newcomers from Britain, China, Taiwan, and Japan.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

The store was started by Cuban immigrant Faustino Castillo, who came to the island in 1910 to make cigars.

Henry Wiers started his time in America by working in local factories, but in 1896, he traveled with his family and other Dutch immigrants to Willard, Ohio.

in 1883 by Japanese immigrants coming to Bainbridge Island to start new lives and realize new opportunities.

If the government is to reduce net migration they can start off by preventing immigrants from abusing the marriage system.

Richmond's ethnic organizations started to take shape in the 1990s, after its low housing prices attracted immigrants from a wide range of countries, as well as Latinos displaced by San Francisco's gentrification.

After Trump's announcement, many climate activists said that the new president has it backward: Stemming the flow of refugees and immigrants starts by addressing climate change.

Immigrants on Screen By Girish Shambu Starting 100 years ago, when Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant first arrived, this personalized survey takes us through a century of strivers and settlers

Based on a book by Colm Tóibín with the screenplay written by Nick Hornby, it's set in the 1950s and follows an immigrant's journey to New York to start a new life.

«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.

When the late Max Kargman started developing affordable housing in the 1960s, his ideas about how it should look were informed by his own humble beginnings as the son of Russian immigrants growing up in a low - income, inner - city neighborhood.

The Seventh Annual Academic Olympiad Comes to HGSE When the late Max Kargman started developing affordable housing in the 1960s, his ideas about how it should look were informed by his own humble beginnings as the son of Russian immigrants growing up in a low - income, inner - city neighborhood.

Single mom Esmeralda Cerezo finds strength by volunteering daily at the Healthy Start center at Madison Elementary, providing extra resources and helping immigrant families feel welcome in the school community.

Control of the government at that time was held by White Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch colonists who started to arrive in 1652, as well as descendants of British immigrants from the early 19th century onwards.

In fact, between 1840 and 1880 Germans were the largest group of immigrants, boosted by the «Forty - Eighters» - a wave of political refugees leaving the German confederacy either because they were on the government's wanted list or simply because they were disappointed by the failure of the 1848 uprisings to bring about political change and wanted to start afresh in a new country.

As this fascinating timeline from the Center for Educational Telecommunications shows, Chinese peddlers were transforming the streets of New York back in 1830, and by the start of the 20th century, Korean immigrants were forming churches and mutual assistance societies in Hawaii and California.

SixUp is a student loan company that was started by first - generation college students and immigrants.

reForm, a two - year installation and public engagement project by Pepón Osorio, takes as its starting point the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican immigrant community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and welded shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission in 2013.

She started this project by spending a year living in a small apartment in Corona, Queens, with five illegal immigrants and their children.

«The contemporary narrative starts to feel too much like the historical one - Chinese immigrant workers being harassed and murdered by Westerners who feel they alone can arbitrate what constitutes acceptable labor.»