Sentence examples for wave from inspiring English sources

She said the existing system made it unlikely that an immigration overhaul could unleash a new wave of illegal migration, like the surge since the amnesty of 1986.

This was not some "wave of adolescent paranoia," but a recognition of having been let down.

Others basked in a wave of optimism, this being the best scheme to come out of a tawdry saga of ill-conceived visions that has dragged on for the past quarter of a century.

The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has admitted that this week's wave of arrests and corruption allegations have "unleashed a storm" but improbably called for "unity and team spirit" as he appealed for a fifth term of office.

"We have a whole new generation that is interested in climate change", he said as he predicted that putting taxes on the use of carbon would trigger a wave of clean technology which would lift people out of poverty in the developing world while preventing the global temperature from rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.

It is the lack of reorders pre-Christmas that makes the profit shortfall visible now - rather than a wave of returns," he said.

Greece is on the frontline of the effort to contain and cope with the wave of immigrants crossing the Mediterranean from the Middle East and north Africa.

For all that, the Allianz Arena was as boisterous as ever, a wave of noise breaking around its cantilevered sides as Bayern pressed aggressively at the start.

I talked to people on both sides of this wave of change, as a new, fully Conservative government takes shape.

With a quick wave of the hand, she disappears into the dank, misty morning in northern Paris.

The attack provoked a wave of disgust and outrage across France, reaching government level, until Leblanc confessed that she had made the whole thing up.