Making the move from Mexico to Houston is both a cultural and logistical challenge, and an industry of professionals has grown up around the need for real estate agents, immigration lawyers, bankers and others to ease the way.
The need for cybersecurity professionals has grown rapidly, along with the growth in data networks in banking, telecommunications, health care, transportation, law enforcement, energy, emergency response systems, and national defense, among other areas.
In some cases, foreign-born professionals have grown weary of the struggle to get and renew a work visa in the United States and moved on to cities like London, where they say they feel more welcome.
Our feed for professionals (@NSPCCpro) has grown considerably in recent months.
Redeemer Presbyterian was begun by Timothy Keller, a graduate of Machen's Westminster Seminary, as a ministry for evangelical city professionals, and has grown so prodigiously that the church actively shuns publicity for fear of overgrowth and an influx of "church tourists".
"The gap between personal morality and professional ethics has grown wide in recent years.
In recent decades, as the number of professional mathematicians has grown, the Fields Medal has become increasingly prestigious.
In the meantime, criticism of his professional judgment has grown, and so have the personal attacks made on him by other members of the perennially-quarrelsome Wagner clan.
The Malay professional class has grown rapidly from a negligible base: over 30% of lawyers and almost 40% of doctors are now Malay.
In the past week alone, the casualty list in professional tennis has grown at a frightening rate, particularly for the men, reviving concerns about whether players can physically cope with their nearly year-round schedule.
The number of salaried, professional soldiers has grown from 10,000 in 1998 to over 50,000, grouped the army into larger units, withdrawing some isolated and vulnerable garrisons, and set up a rapid-reaction force of 5,000 troops for which the government has bought two dozen fast, big Blackhawk helicopters.Though the armed forces are no longer being defeated, they face a tough fight.
