Definition & Meaning | English word IMMIGRATING

Definitions of IMMIGRATING

1. inflection of immigrate

Examples of Using IMMIGRATING in a Sentence

• Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in January 1936, immigrating with his family to the United States.
• The White Australia policy was a set of racial policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European non-white ethnic originsespecially Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islandersfrom immigrating to Australia in order to create a "white/British" ideal focused on but not exclusively Anglo-Celtic peoples.
• The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major US law ever implemented to prevent all members of a specific national group from immigrating to the United States, and therefore helped shape twentieth-century race-based immigration policy.
• Anthony Fedorov, who advanced to the final four of the 2005 season of American Idol grew up here after immigrating from the Soviet Union in 1994.
• Otto Plath, the father of poet Sylvia Plath,lived briefly in Fall Creek after immigrating from the German Empire.
• David Ho attended Taichung Municipal Guang-Fu Elementary School until sixth grade before immigrating to the United States with his mother and younger brother to unite with his father, who had already been in the US since 1957.
• His father was a general store owner, and Simpson was trained in the drapery trade in Elgin, Moray before immigrating to Newmarket, Province of Canada, at the age of 21 where he worked at his uncle's dry goods store.
• After immigrating to the United States in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in 1923, and developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-crossing flying boats in the 1930s, including the Sikorsky S-42 "Flying Clipper".
• Koo joined TVB as their director of music in 1973, where from the late 1970s until immigrating to Canada in the 1990s, he collaborated with the lyricist Wong Jim on many memorable TV theme songs.
• Born in Tehran, Iran, Yassini went to Kharazami high school and attended University of Pahlavi for one year before immigrating to the United States in 1977.
• Previously, Wildey had joined the Grand United Order of Oddfellows (1798-) in 1804 but followed through with the split of Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity (1810–) before immigrating to the United States in 1817.
• The Great Famine begins, marking a change in the composition of Irish immigrating to Canada from mostly rich, well-connected, respectable Protestants to vastly poor, ill-equipped, poorly treated Catholics.
• Before immigrating, he married Mary Hutchison (born in Cumberland) and they had their first child in Lanchester on May 28, 1814 and named him William Lea.
• He then emigrated to Trinidad, where he held several jobs, first, briefly, as editor of the Trinidad Evening News (1936), thereafter as an oilfield worker for Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd (1936–43), before immigrating to New York City in 1943.
• Fokin performed regularly in Brattle Square after immigrating from Russa and before his untimely death.
• In 1995, Sharansky and Yoel Edelstein founded the Yisrael BaAliyah party (a play on words, since "aliya" means both Jewish emigration to Israel and "rise", thus the party name means "(People of) Israel immigrating (to the State of Israel)", as well as "Israel on the rise"), promoting the absorption of the Soviet Jews into Israeli society.
• After immigrating to the United States in 1904, Factor moved his family and business to Los Angeles, California, seeing an opportunity to provide made-to-order wigs and theatrical make-up to the growing film industry.
• While the Sephardim chiefly congregated in London as the centre of international commerce, Jews immigrating from Germany and Poland settled for the most part in the seaports of the south and west, such as Falmouth, Plymouth, Liverpool, Bristol, etc.
• The new village of Ghamarlu (or Verin Ghamarlu) was founded there in 1828–29 by Armenians immigrating from the districts of Khoy and Salmas in Iran.
• was one of the organizers of Jewish self-defense in Yuzovka and Kishinev, Israel Shochat was active in the "Poalei Zion" movement and the Jewish self-defense organization in Grodno, and his wife Manya Shochat was active, before immigrating to the Land of Israel, in the "Bund" party (a non-Zionist Jewish workers' party), and in 1898 she was imprisoned for her underground activities.

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