Sentence examples for attempting to emigrate from inspiring English sources

Korchnoi's wife and son were refused exit visas until the mid-1980s, and his son was jailed shortly before the 1981 match after attempting to emigrate.

Nor is this a novel that excludes the other victims of the Nuremberg race laws; Lustiger traces the lives of gay men, of petty criminals, of Gypsies, of fundamentalist Christians and of those who supposedly proved their disloyalty by attempting to emigrate illegally.

Children are suffering (some even are perishing) as their families attempt to emigrate for a better life.

When the Nsongo Mboyo tribe attempted to emigrate 1,000 were captured and sent to a forced labour camp.

Businessmen are seen traveling from one city to another as idealistic students in another compartment debate whether they should remain in China or attempt to emigrate to North America, where they might have better options and more freedom to pursue their dreams.

In Fuzhou, a taxi-driver told me that he was glad his attempts to emigrate had failed.

Tiny drawings catalogue American war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan; a comic strip details an African's failed attempt to emigrate to Europe.

The novelty of Crace's undone America is that the population is moving eastward, reversing the westward migrations of earlier centuries, in a desperate attempt to "emigrate" to Europe, though no one seems to know anything about this promised land.

Except for a brief attempt to emigrate to Japan that ended in what he described as a bitter dispute with a Japanese cousin and his father's adopted children over the family estate, Mr. Mangjul has lived as a model South Korean citizen.

The Speedwell was determined to be unseaworthy; some passengers abandoned their attempt to emigrate, while others joined the Mayflower, crowding the already heavily burdened ship.

The process of psychiatric incarceration was instigated by attempts to emigrate; distribution or possession of prohibited documents or books; participation in civil rights actions and demonstrations, and involvement in forbidden religious activity.