Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

The fall of the Siad Barre and Mengistu governments in Somalia and Ethiopia, respectively, in 1991, caused Djibouti to face national security threats due to the instability in the neighboring states and a massive influx of refugees estimated at 100, 000 from Somalia and Ethiopia.

However, the southern provinces ( present day Belgium ) remained under Habsburg rule, Holland benefiting greatly from the resulting eclipse of Flemish cities and massive influx of refugees.

The nomadic incursions caused a massive influx of Slavs to the safer, heavily forested regions of the north, particularly to the area known as Zalesye.

Ontario, and the Greater Toronto Area in particular, have been the recipients of most immigration to Canada, largely immigrants from war-torn Europe in the 1950s and 1960s and after changes in federal immigration law, a massive influx of non-Europeans since the 1970s.

The influx of attendees to the rural concert site in Bethel created a massive traffic jam.

As naturalization laws were created to deal with the rare case of people separated from their nation state because they lived abroad ( expatriates ), western democracies were not ready to naturalize the massive influx of stateless people which followed massive denationalizations and the expulsion of ethnic minorities from newly created nation states in the first part of the 20th century, but they also counted the ( mostly aristocratic ) Russians who had escaped the 1917 October Revolution and the war communism period, and then the Spanish refugees.

In 1866 Erasmus Jacobs discovered diamonds at Kimberley, prompting a diamond rush and a massive influx of foreigners to the borders of the Orange Free State.

A massive influx of new farmers, combined with inappropriate cultivation techniques and misunderstanding of the ecology, led to immense land erosion and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

In December 1966, Jefferson Airplane was featured in a Newsweek article about the booming San Francisco music scene, one of the first in a welter of similar media reports that prompted a massive influx of young people to the city and contributed to the commercialization and exploitation of the hippie culture.

The small town, surrounded by marshes and rainforest, was unprepared for such a massive influx of people, and around 6, 000 of the pioneers died within the year due to fevers and other illnesses.

The construction of the railways caused many more displaced people to settle in Tower Hamlets, and a massive influx of Eastern European Jews at the end of the 19th century added to the population.

As the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx has shifted to Brooklyn in the 2000s, Manhattan's Chinatown's Cantonese population still remains viable and large and successfully continues to retain its stable Cantonese community identity, maintaining the communal gathering venue established decades ago in the western portion of Chinatown, to shop, work, and socialize — in contrast to the Cantonese population and community identity which are declining very rapidly in Brooklyn's Chinatown.

In recent years, the town has seen a massive influx of immigrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca

This influx of young men into the religious life, thanks to the disappearance of sub-division, in part explains the massive growth in clerical numbers in Ireland in the period.

With this massive influx of manpower the Republican Guard expanded to over 25 brigades which were led by loyal officers drawn from the Iraqi military.

In 1848, there was a massive influx of Maya and Mestizos from Mexico, fleeing the Caste War of Yucatán ( 1847 – 1901 ).

The diversity of American athletes in the Olympic Games in the early 20th centuries was an important avenue for the country to redefine a national culture amid a massive influx of immigrants, as well as American Indians ( represented by Jim Thorpe in 1912 ) and blacks ( represented by Jesse Owens in 1932 ).

Until the massive influx of immigrants during the Australian gold rushes of the 1850s, the settler population had been dominated by English and Irish convicts and their descendants.

This situation was worsened by the massive influx of women baby boomers into the labour market, which further increased the unemployment rates.

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Beginning in the 12th century, there was a massive influx of rural Germanic settlers from Flanders, Saxony, Thuringia and Franconia.

Gracchus rose to office at a time when the Roman Republic was bloated with the effects of extensive expansion abroad ; a huge influx of slave labor and foreign wealth, a change in the function of agriculture and devaluation in the crop market were causing a massive domestic crisis, challenging the fundamental values of Roman culture ( there is a debate over whether it was a grain crisis or a manpower crisis ).

" More immediately, though, he called for a massive build-up of U. S. arms production: " Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being ' directly assailed in every part of the world … The need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoted primarily — almost exclusively — to meeting this foreign peril.

The era saw great industrialization, urbanization ( including the massive rebuilding of Paris by Baron Haussmann ) and economic growth, but Napoleon III's foreign policies were not so successful.

In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments ; Iraq suffered economic losses of at least $ 80 billion from the war.

The embargo failed in the United States just as it did in France, and caused massive hardships up and down the seaboard, which depended on foreign trade.

That results in a massive investment from foreign companies in Poznań as well as in communities west and south of Poznań ( namely, Kórnik and Tarnowo Podgórne ).

In about 1175 BC, Egypt was threatened with a massive land and sea invasion by the " Sea Peoples ," a coalition of foreign enemies which included the Tjeker, the Shekelesh, the Deyen, the Weshesh, the Teresh, the Sherden and the PRST ; the last group are commonly regarded as identical with the Philistines.

In 2006, Russia repaid most of its formerly massive debts, leaving it with one of the lowest foreign debts among major economies.

The Western Allies also expressed their dismay at the Bolsheviks, ( 1 ) upset at the withdrawal of Russia from the war effort, ( 2 ) worried about a possible Russo-German alliance, and perhaps most importantly ( 3 ) galvanised by the prospect of the Bolsheviks making good their threats to assume no responsibility for, and so default on, Imperial Russia's massive foreign loans ; the legal notion of odious debt had not yet been formulated.

However, after the failure of the peace process and the activation of Plan Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez was elected President in 2002, starting a massive attack on terrorist groups, with cooperation from civil population, foreign aid and legal armed forces.

In the 1790s, the United Kingdom, suffering a massive shortage of silver coinage, ceased to mint larger silver coins and issued " token " silver coins and overstruck foreign coins.

*" Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

While experiencing a political storm, China was also hit with a massive natural disaster — the Tangshan Earthquake, officially recorded at magnitude 7. 8 on the Richter Scale, authorities refused large amounts of foreign aid.

Huge industrial areas sprouted around the city, massive and disorganised urbanisation and employment of foreign immigrants increased.

Andy Kaufman's ( Jim Carrey ) " foreign man " character appears in black-and-white, declaring that ( due to massive editing ), this is actually the end of the film, not the beginning.

* By showing that appeasement was a popular policy and that there was continuity in British foreign policy after 1933, he shattered the common view of the appeasers as a small, degenerate clique that had mysteriously hijacked the British government sometime in the 1930s and who had carried out their policies in the face of massive public resistance.

" The industrial base continued to expand through the 1960s, but after 1970 foreign competition led to the collapse of the steel industry, with massive layoffs and mill closures.

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With the signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in August 1939, Hiranuma's cabinet resigned over this foreign policy issue and over the massive defeat of the Japanese Army in Mongolia during the Nomonhan Incident against the Soviet Union.

The smallest domestic automaker did not have " the massive R & D budgets of General Motors, Ford, and foreign competitors ... AMC placed R & D emphasis on bolstering the product life cycle of its prime products ( particularly Jeeps ).

He believed that once Louis XVI was executed all of France ’ s foreign negotiating power would be lost and he feared a massive royalist rebellion.

He attempted to restore business confidence by renegotiating the external debt with the International Monetary Fund and with bondholders, but the growing country risk and spiraling put options by large investors and foreign holdings led to a bank run and a massive capital flight.

By showing that appeasement was a popular policy and that there was continuity in British foreign policy after 1933, he shattered the common view of the appeasers as a small, degenerate clique that had mysteriously hijacked the British government sometime in the 1930s and who had carried out their policies in the face of massive public resistance ; and by portraying the leaders of the 1930s as real people attempting to deal with real problems, he made the first strides towards attempting to explain the actions of the appeasers rather than merely to condemn them.

Consequently, the government was unable to service massive foreign debts it accumulated from both Western and Communist bloc countries.

This is questionable, as the country suffers massive food shortages annually and is heavily dependent on foreign aid.