Sentence examples for large wave of emigration from inspiring English sources

A large wave of emigration swept the nation.

Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank defaulted on most of a $422 million debt payment that came due on Sunday, once again casting a spotlight on Congress's failure to address a spiraling debt crisis that has fueled the largest wave of emigration from the island in half a century.   .

The music is identified with Naples, but is famous abroad, having been exported on the great waves of emigration from Naples and southern Italy roughly between 1880 and 1920.

The war itself created the opportunity for a large "second wave" of emigration, thus feeding émigré literature.

In Yonkers, men hunched over pints of beer in half-empty pubs say there are far fewer people arriving now than during the last big wave of Irish emigration, in the 1980s.

This set off a wave of emigration.

Nafta unleashed the tidal wave of emigration that Americans know as the "immigration crisis".

As few British commentators seem to be aware, the biggest wave of emigration from Bulgaria took place in the 1990s, before the country joined the EU.

There are fears both in Cuba and in the United States that social instability after Castro's death could provoke a huge wave of emigration.

Now it seems the country is on the verge of a new wave of emigration, with young college graduates at the forefront.

Meanwhile, Greece, plagued by an unattractive combination of fiscal problems, austerity and unemployment, has seen a new wave of emigration, notably to America and Canada.