This summer's influx presented Israel with its largest arrival of non-Jewish migrants in its history.
If this week's influx is anything to go by, that could change.
This year's influx of Nuer – equal to 60% of Gambella's 2007 official population of 307,000 – is only the latest instalment in a century-old trend.
The bullrings followed the 1960's influx of Azorean immigrants, who came to California, which they referred to as "the tenth island," after a major volcanic eruption.
Cornish hoteliers fear the boom from this week's influx of visitors to watch the eclipse may be as brief as the event itself.
Juncker pointedly remarked that today's wave of immigration from the Middle East and Africa could be tomorrow's influx from a war-ravaged Ukraine, the message being that the eastern Europeans on the frontline would then demand help from western Europe.
Formed in 2013, the party was originally focused on its opposition to the euro but gained real prominence through fears triggered by last year's influx of refugees, which saw an estimated 1.1 million newcomers arriving in Germany.
The Electoral Reform Society estimated that the summer's influx of new party peers – which took the active membership to more than 820 – will cost the taxpayer at least an extra £1.2m a year.
European leaders meeting for emergency talks in Brussels are struggling to resolve tensions over how to handle this year's influx of refugees, amid warnings that the continued uncertainly could threaten the European Union itself.
The Americans, too, have had to learn fast; many of them are part of this summer's influx of troops and, like Colonel Voorhees's men, have been in the field for only a month or two.
Last year's influx of coalition forces brought with it the kind of intelligence and surveillance that have enhanced the military's ability to conduct the night raids, which now average 300 a month, NATO and Afghan officials said.
