Sentence examples for were forced to emigrate from inspiring English sources

Destitute, the Shreves were forced to emigrate to the western Pennsylvania frontier.

Most of the outstanding Poles in literature, art or science were forced to emigrate for political reasons.

One million people died and another million were forced to emigrate, which is why there are people of Irish background all over the world, not least in Australia.

Roughly another million, out of a total population of some eight million, were forced to emigrate, which generally meant a voyage to Canada or the United States on unseaworthy, fever-ridden "coffin ships" that could be just as perilous.

Like Roddy Doyle (whose book "The Commitments" was published in 1987), Bolger is writing of an era when nearly a whole generation of Irish youth, privileged and disadvantaged alike, were forced to emigrate.

I'm sure Mr Philip doesn't need a history lesson, but for very pressing economic reasons many Irish people were forced to emigrate, so many of us who might in other circumstances have been born in Ireland were born elsewhere.

In 1975, she was forced to emigrate.

In 2013, Kasparov was forced to emigrate.

Beatrix married again, to an Austrian Jew who had been forced to emigrate to England during the war.

A political radical, he was forced to emigrate in 1792 because a handbill he had printed was deemed seditious.

She spent a decade away from her native Belarus after being forced to emigrate under pressure from the Lukashenko regime in 2000.