Sentence examples for long exodus from inspiring English sources

"Lots of belongings were lost in Arafat's long exodus from Beirut to Tunis to Gaza and Ramallah," al-Qudwa said.

But the long exodus of white Southern Democrats to the Republican Party that began in the 1960's appears to have halted, and many Democrats say they now have the momentum.

This is back before his early days as part of a Motown band with Rick James, back before his long exodus to L.A. in a hearse looking for Stephen Stills, whom he would find only at the last minute in a Sunset Strip traffic jam, before they formed Buffalo Springfield.

At the same time, after a decades-long exodus, a new phenomenon is occurring: Tibetans are quietly requesting Chinese documents to go home, implicitly acknowledging that China's rule over Tibet is here to stay.

The family sat in the airport, minutes from its long-awaited exodus from the Soviet Union in 1989.

The Great Irish Hunger spawned a long-distance exodus probably without parallel in the history of famines.

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.

Mansfield, often accused of opting for a direct approach and an over reliance on the long throws of Exodus Geohaghon, just about edged an untidy first half.

The truth is, Jews lived in Egypt long after the Exodus.

The Exodus has long since passed into one of the heroic legends of the Israeli state.

Not only does primitive polytheism haunt Exodus's long sojourn in the wilderness but there is a flavor of stage magic: pillars of smoke and flame, rocks that gush water, manna from Heaven, finger-writing in stone, and elaborate specifications for the Ark containing the tablets of the Covenant and the tent enclosing the Ark.