Sentence examples for exodus during from inspiring English sources

Their parents tried to shield them from the worst stories of their terrifying exodus during Sri Lanka's civil war.

This northward movement is then followed by a southward exodus during fall and winter, with some representatives of this species remaining year-round.

Those residents are long gone; their exodus during the 1960's and 70's set off a deep slump, marked by gnawing crime and even some abandoned buildings.

There was an exodus during the 1991 Persian Gulf war and then another last year when the United States and its allies invaded.

When Japan lost its northern Chinese colony of Manchuria at the end of World War II, an enormous repatriation to the home islands immediately ensued -- a frantic and chaotic exodus during which, tragically, many infants were lost or abandoned.

Eventually, the accumulated prosopographical detail swamps truly important events, like the extraordinary exodus during the summer of 1940, which saw millions of people take to the roads to flee the German advance.

Tyson refers to Exodus repeatedly during our conversations with evident sadness and insists on keeping her memory alive by counting her among his living children.

The pictures, in milk-based casein tempera on hardboard, detailed the exodus — beginning during the First World War — of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

The New York art market benefited from the Jewish exodus from Europe during the Second World War, succeeding Paris as the most exciting centre for modern and contemporary art.

Mr. Jacobovici maintains that the Exodus took place during the reign of Ahmose I, around 1500 B.C., which is a century or so earlier than most scholars estimate.

Other companies are importing workers from Ukraine, a country that shares similarities in language and culture and has seen its own exodus of workers during its violent conflict with pro-Russian separatists.