How To Use Emigre In A Sentence
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His father was a French émigré, his mother Catherine Welby, a fanatical Protestant sectarian.
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Like other married women academics of her day, she experienced discrimination due to antinepotism rules and, like many intellectual emigrés, did not receive the appreciation she deserved during her lifetime.
Else Frenkel-Brunswik.
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There is even a new international hotel, set up by an extremely brave and enterprising returned Afghan émigré from New Jersey.
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In combination with the threatening and belligerent attitude of the princes, it did much to fuel the violent anti-émigré attitude of the Legislative Assembly during the autumn of 1791.
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For this apostasy, these Western elites ostracized and criticized Birman, saying that his views were by definition biased because he was an emigre.
Right From the Start
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Now an exile himself, he makes gentle but deadly fun of those émigrés who forgather, like the White Russians of old, in a café society devoted to toasting the ancien régime.
The Persian Version
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He remained a nomad, a figure displaced by the historical tragedies of the last century, an émigré.
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Lucian Brett Ercolani was born in 1917 three years before his Italian émigré father, also called Lucian, founded the company.
Top stories from Times Online
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Over the autumn and winter their language became hysterically belligerent towards the German princelings who harboured the émigrés and, behind them, the Habsburg Emperor.
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The young émigré began by packaging and peddling lanolin - sheep oil - disguising the odor with extracts of lavender, pine bark, and water lilies.
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Of uncertain origins, he was one of the community of émigré musicians who made an itinerant orchestral career in Britain, playing a variety of wind and string instruments, the fortepiano, and the cittern.
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Vander, a pompous, splenetic academic, is an elderly Belgian émigré to a California town bearing the Nabokovian name of Arcady.
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So far the culprits have not been found, but the public prosecutor's office is assuming neo-fascist involvement due to the identity of the victims, most of whom were Russian émigré Jews.
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In Denning's formulation, the Popular Front is more productively viewed in Gramscian terms, as a "historical bloc uniting industrial unionists, Communists, independent socialists, community activists, and émigré anti-fascists around laborist social democracy, anti-fascism and anti-lynching.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Several hundred Bosnian refugees and emigres demonstrated outside the main entrance.
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He was one of the emigres who left France after the French Revolution.
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Politically, he protected the ci-devant nobles, and prevented, to the extent of his power, the sale of the lands and property of the emigres; commercially, he furnished the Republican armies with two or three thousand puncheons of white wine, and took his pay in splendid fields belonging to a community of women whose lands had been reserved for the last lot.
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One North Dakota émigré actually ‘rode the hounds’ with wolves rather than foxes as his quarry.
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This, and the white emigree from Africa to America point to the absurdity of both the term African-American and the squeamishness of people who, for some reason, cannot say, “black.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » OK, Parse This for an Israeli or Armenian Lawyer Who Works at Your Firm:
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A great number of emigres arrived daily from the mainland, left homeless and often destitute of all worldly possessions.
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When Germany failed to take Russia Stalin went after those émigrés who had defected to the German forces.
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I filled out the application sheet with a pencil stub - an émigré from a miniature golf course.
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Several hundred Bosnian refugees and emigres demonstrated outside the main entrance.
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They are the underpinnings, the underprops of an old system, these _émigrés_, by which the masses were expected to toil for the benefit of the classes.
Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
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Since 90 per cent of clerical émigrés were seculars, the loss of parish clergy was not far short of a half.
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Hu is just the kind of emigre Beijing has been eager to lure back to bolster an economy growing rapidly but short of talented managers and innovators.
Fore, right!
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The Rorschach inkblot conceit used for the catalogue was, like the ‘Lost Formats’ issue of Emigre, so overstated and dominant that it crushed the content.
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European emigre classical pianists, from Sergei Rachmaninov to Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, were among the fans of a virtuoso who could throw off improvised pieces as complex and orchestral in scope as the most advanced classical piano compositions.
Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York
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So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs ...
Marina Lewycka - live webchat - 8th July, 2009
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For this apostasy, these Western elites ostracized and criticized Birman, saying that his views were by definition biased because he was an emigre.
Right From the Start
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The deception campaign that exploited the émigrés' lack of credibility was unwittingly backstopped by correspondence between Cubans and their friends and relatives in the United States.
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European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets
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In view of the contributions of German émigrés, the experiential program was named Émigré Memorial German Internship Program.
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M. de Lally read us a pleading for émigrés of all descriptions, to the people and Government of France, for their reinstalment in their native land, that exceeds in eloquence, argument, taste, feeling, and every power of oratory and truth united, any thing I ever remember to have heard ....
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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We next hear of her as servant-maid in a Piccadilly brothel, a lupanar much patronized by wealthy émigrés from France, among whom was Louis-Henri-Joseph, Duc de Bourbon and later Prince de Condé, a man at that time of about fifty-four.
She Stands Accused
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For the most part, the work of Russian émigré scientists and engineers became a part of the mainstream activities of the new country.
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The prospect of cashing in on the huge émigré market is one reason many Irish retailers are making a concerted effort to make inroads into e-commerce.
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He was tall, elegant, handsome and "very Czech, by which I mean passionate and pessimistic" – the very embodiment of a romantic emigre, one who came to London after Soviet tanks had crushed the Prague spring in 1968, with £50 in his pocket.
The Saturday interview: architect Amanda Levete
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For this company (Russian) to dance this ballet (by the most important Russian emigre in this art form) is a reflection of respect and tradition—concepts that run deeper than Hollywood can hope to capture.
Where the World Comes to Dance
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Trying to change the political culture of Mexico as a single emigre is a total waste of energy that will drive you mad.
Importing/Driving a Car into Mexico
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Several hundred Bosnian refugees and emigres demonstrated outside the main entrance.
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Intellectual life was not so dissimilar, vitality after the war coming largely from external sources, émigrés from Central and Eastern Europe, with few local eminences.
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Back in February, one of Margaret’s many doctors, a short, autocratic Jewish Iraqi émigré, had inserted a flexible plastic tube known as a PEG an acronym of the medical term percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy through her skin and into her stomach to drain everything she swallowed into a bag outside her body.
A Happy Marriage
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It has already begun to exist, in a preborn form, insofar that it exists in the hearts and minds of her expatriates, her numerous émigrés and defectors, as well as citizens at home.
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I often travelled abroad with him as his driver when he investigated the activities of our revolutionary emigres.
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Emigrés risked the sequestration of their land, but in 1814 nobles still owned 20 percent of the land in France, compared to 25 per cent in 1789.
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Lands confiscated from the Church and the émigrés and then sold on would not be returned to their original owners.
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His German linguistic skills made him useful: he was recruited and given the task of fingering anti-communists among the Russian émigrés abroad (his public role was that of a successful composer).
