Sentence examples for vast exodus from inspiring English sources

The airport refugees, along with tens of thousands of other African migrants lucky enough to make it across the border to Tunisia, are the most desperate contingent of a vast exodus that has already sent almost 200,000 foreigners fleeing the country since the outbreak of the popular revolt against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi nearly three weeks ago.

This puts a strain on Greece's balance of payments, but in theory such a vast exodus of youngsters should bring tremendous benefits to their home country by making them more sophisticated and broadening their minds— provided that at least some of them eventually come back.Sadly, the mind-broadening does not always happen.

The vast exodus of Syrian children fleeing the conflict in their country during the past four years has highlighted the education crisis experienced by many millions of displaced children elsewhere, as well as highlighting the shocking inadequacy of the international community's response.

By encouraging the exodus of vast numbers of students from publicly-operated schools, Romney's voucher plan would radically reduce the number of students for whom states and localities would be responsible.

In 1960 Newman starred in Otto Preminger's vast and lumbering epic about the birth of Israel, Exodus.

Mr Salgado's projects bear witness to vast political and economic upheaval, most famously in "Workers" (1986-91) and "Exodus" (1993-99), but "Salt of the Earth" is primarily about his career path.

One infrastructure stock that has retained favor among money managers -- despite the steep fall in its share price -- is Exodus Communications, which builds and hosts Internet systems on its vast "server farms" for corporations.

A minor exodus also hit one of the hidden strengths of American science: vast ranks of bright foreigners.

Within seconds of the markets opening, shares in insurance companies crashed as investors took fright at the vast amount of administration the FCA's plans would incur and the potential mass exodus of client money.

These conflicts have contributed to a new wave of demographic changes, including the exodus and repatriation of more than two million refugees, several hundred thousand orphans, and a vast number of single parent- or child-headed households.

By most measures, then, the exodus -- through lit stairwells and in orderly, often courteous fashion -- was a vast improvement over the chaotic flight from the two buildings following the terrorist bombing in 1993, fire officials and witnesses said.