Sentence examples for immigrant wanted from inspiring English sources

Here's the lede of an A.P. report about a recent, much-publicized arrest: An Afghan immigrant wanted to carry out a massive New York City terror attack involving hydrogen peroxide bombs on commuter trains to coincide with the Sept. 11 anniversary before federal authorities foiled the plan, a U.S. prosecutor said Friday.

The 49-year-old immigrant wanted to invest his newfound riches back home in the city of Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley.

Their names are Sanskrit, because Oscar, a Peruvian immigrant, wanted to give them identifiers from one of the world's oldest languages.

"An immigrant wants to be respected, legitimate," Lahiri said.

I can attest, from my own reporting, that not every immigrant wants citizenship and a vote.

Bouchart criticised British immigration policy as creating an "Eldorado" that immigrants wanted to reach via France.

Most Jewish immigrants wanted nothing more than to get out.

The old immigrants wanted to Better Themselves and to Get Ahead.

After inventing his machine, Frank J. Zamboni, the son of Italian immigrants, wanted to name his company Paramount Engineering, to give it more credibility.

This is a tidy euphemism for "no immigrants wanted," especially if they are dark-skinned or if English is not their first language.

Canarsie had what many Caribbean immigrants wanted: single-family homes with backyards for barbecuing and growing roses or tomatoes, decent schools, affordable prices, quiet streets, proximity to family.