Sentence examples for of immigrant origin from inspiring English sources

The crowd was overwhelmingly of immigrant origin.

Suspects of immigrant origin were particularly likely to be punished.

All except one, a convert, were of immigrant origin and lived in Brussels's poorer, though far from desperate, neighbourhoods.

She thinks Sarkozy's appointment of women ministers of immigrant origin - Rachida Dati, Fadela Amera and Rama Yade - was cynical.

Today, about 15-16 Muslims Muslims from families of immigrant origin live in the EU, mostly in the cities.

Half of its current 1.8 million residents are of immigrant origin: second and third generation Hungarians, Czechs and Poles, refugees from the 1990s Balkan conflict, Afghans and Turks.

A year on from the Olympics, when the medal haul from Britons of immigrant origins demonstrated the positive contribution of migration, these initiatives are aimed at creating distrust of those of darker hues.

In other words, the category of immigrant-origin citizen is not fundamentally different from the traditional citizen, especially if cultural identity is replaced by a more civic link between the individual and the state.

Is it the case that residents of countries with stronger multicultural identities are less likely to think that immigrants and their children are part of a reciprocity agreement with longstanding residents, or more likely to think that those of immigrant-origin choose welfare?

The poorest peasants are people of African descent - including an estimated 800,000 of Haitian immigrant origin.

French youth of Maghreb immigrant origin claim the right to be against Zionism without being accused of anti-Semitism.