Sentence examples for wave of exiles from inspiring English sources

Much of the money had been made in state sell-offs and it seemed that with every new convulsion there, a new wave of exiles arrived here".

But then, in early 2003, Chávez responded to a strike by public oil company workers by firing 20,000 of them at one go, which triggered the first mass wave of exiles in Venezuela's history.

Nabokov, Bunin, Wrangel, Nijinsky, Kandinsky, Koussevitzky, Chaliapin, Balanchine, Kerensky, Sikorsky, grand dukes, generals, archbishops, professors -- all who were not killed fled West, to be joined later by new waves of exiles.

They transformed Miami over time, becoming its business and political elite, but as successive generations were born, and other waves of exiles arrived by boat or through immigration accords – with the Cuban population of Miami surpassing half that of Havana itself – the needs of the community changed, as did its relationships to Cuba.

Another wave of exile ensued.

They can probably be safely described as anti-Communist, in that they voted with their feet by leaving Cuba, but they generally lack the ferocious anti-Castroism that was (and is) the defining political feature of the first waves of exiles, and, interestingly, of their U.S.-born children as well.

The region's anti-urban domesticity is its 100-year-old sales pitch, and the success of the pitch to waves of exiles from elsewhere has depended until now on maintaining the carefully planned suburban distances that separate me from my neighbors here.

"I might agree or disagree with Obama's approach of establishing new diplomatic relationships with Cuba, but I'm very proud to be Cuban American today," said Andy Gomez, a respected expert in Washington-Havana relations who moved to Miami from Cuba with his family in 1961 in one of the first waves of exiles following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

But this split within the Cuban-American community has not yet registered at the polls, because those advocating a tougher embargo are older, from the waves of exiles who arrived in the United States in the 1960's and 1970's, and are far more likely to vote.

From Cafe Versailles, the popular Cuban restaurant and bakery, to Maximo Gomez park further east, where the first waves of exiles from Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution still gather daily to play dominoes, there was the inescapable feeling that the page had finally turned on a dark chapter of history.

Her family, of Nicaraguan descent on her father's side, started Miami's earliest Spanish-language newspaper in the 1950s, easing the cultural transition for the waves of exiles who fled Cuba after Fidel Castro took control.