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influx and Chinese
These developments in Karachi resulted in large influx of economic migrants: Parsis, Hindus, Christians, Jews, Marathis, Goans, Chinese, British, Arabs and Gujaratis.
Due to the growing sophistication of Chinese laws, the expansion of the rule of law, as well as an influx of foreign law firms, China has also begun to develop a legal services market.
In a 2007 New York Times article, Chad Chamber of Commerce Director estimated an " influx of at least 40, 000 Chinese in coming years " to Chad.
As a result of its growing economy and large population, more middle-class families from China are able to afford American college tuition, bringing an influx of Chinese students to study abroad in the United States.
Due to the economic force of China and its growing wealth, there has been a recent influx of Chinese models scoring modeling successes in the fashion industry, including Sui He, Fei Fei Sun, Liu Wen, Ming Xi und Shu Pei Qin as the most-in-demand.
It was colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century, followed by an influx of Han Chinese including Hakka immigrants from areas of Fujian and Guangdong of mainland China, across the Taiwan Strait.
The first influx of migrants from coastal Fujian came during the Dutch period, in which merchants and traders from the mainland Chinese coast sought to purchase hunting licenses from the Dutch or hide out in aboriginal villages to escape the Qing authorities.
Until the 1980s and before the Fuzhou influx, what is now the western section of Chinatown or known as the Old Chinatown of Manhattan was the original size of Manhattan's Chinatown with The Bowery at the time serving as the original eastern borderline of Chinatown and this was where the Chinese population mostly concentrated on the Lower East Side, mostly the Cantonese.
The beginning influx of Fuzhou immigrants arriving during the 1980s and 1990s were entering into a Chinese community that was extremely Cantonese dominated.
He and his followers brought into Yunnan an influx of Chinese influence, the start of a long history of migration and cultural expansion.
Following the discovery of gold near Pine Creek during the 1880s, the subsequent influx of Chinese miners to the Northern Territory led to a high demand for food crops such as rice.
The gold strike in California had brought a large influx of newcomers into the territory, including Chinese immigrants.
After the retrocession of Taiwan to the ROC, Taiwan absorbed an influx of Chinese Sign Language users from mainland China who influenced TSL through teaching methods and loanwords.
An influx of immigrants, mainly from the Yan ( Hebei ) and Qi ( Shandong ) provinces, continued without cessation, implanting Chinese culture into the former Gojoseon area.
In the 1880s Karakol's population surged with an influx of Dungans, Chinese Muslims fleeing warfare in China.
This attracted a large influx of Chinese migrant laborers.
The worship of Mazu was brought to Singapore from China by the influx of Chinese immigrants during the 19th century, a large proportion of whom came from Fujian.
Promising African and Chinese TV deals and an influx of Nigerian internationals, Fashanu made headlines, yet did little to steady the Barry ship, which looked to be in increasingly rough seas.
that I am and always have been opposed to the influx of Chinese.
Trading and commerce is still predominantly East Asian ( Hokkien Chinese ), aided more so by a recent influx of immigrants from Taiwan and by Koreans as well.
The agricultural makeup of the city outside the centre is populated mostly by farmers, leading to an influx of Chinese and Filipino women as wives.
Today, Bay Ridge maintains a sizable Irish, Italian, and Greek population, but like other areas in South / Southwest Brooklyn, late in the 20th century it saw an influx of Russian, Polish, and Arabians, and lesser numbers of Chinese.
Notwithstanding such attempts to restrict the influx of cheap labor from China, beginning in the 1870s Chinese workers helped construct a vast network of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

influx and arms
Despite reports that there had been an influx of arms in the weeks leading up to the election and reports of some ' disturbances during campaigning ' - including attacks on the presidential palace and the Interior Ministry by as-yet-unidentified gunmen-European monitors labelled the election as " calm and organized ".
During the mid-9th century, there was an influx of these high quality weapons into Scandinavia, and Frankish arms became the standard for all Vikings.
During the second world war the city grew massively in size, due to the influx of workers to the local industry manufacturing arms for the war effort.

influx and turned
However, with the influx of new members in 2004, together with awarding Turkey candidate status, public opinion in the EU turned against enlargement.
The effect that the music of these British bands, and The Beatles in particular, had on young Americans was immediate ; almost overnight, folk — along with many other forms of homegrown music — became passé for a large proportion of America's youth, who instead turned their attention to the influx of British acts.
The growing deltas of the Yangtze and Qiantang rivers eventually sealed off Lake Tai from the sea, and the influx of fresh water from rivers and rains turned Lake Tai into a freshwater lake.
Throughout the High Middle Ages, a large influx of German settlers and the introduction of German law, custom, and Low German language turned the area west of the Oder into a German one ( Ostsiedlung ).
The reduction of buildings here to tenements and the crowding from the influx of Cristero War refugees turned the area into Mexico City's first slum.
In the 1960s and 1970s British jazz began to have more varied influences, from Africa and the Caribbean. The influx of musicians from the Caribbean brought to the Uk shores excellent musicians like the Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriot, firmly established as an outstanding bebop soloist before his arrival in the Uk he went on to claim a leading spot in British Jazz. Harriott was an important voice and innovator whose constant search for new ways to express his music was to lead to collaborations with fellow Jamaican Alpha Boys school alumni like trumpeter Dizzy Reece and then subsequently from the Island of St Vincent trumpeter Shake Keane. Harriott turned to what he termed " abstract " or " free form " music.

influx and tide
Their average swimming speed decreases when the tide rises at night, possibly because the influx of cooler water reduces their metabolism, or the accompanying movement of prey fishes makes foraging easier.
During high tide, the dam along with the regulator controls the influx of saline water.

influx and Burma
Until the recent influx of Chinese immigrants from Yunnan, the Burmese Chinese in Lower Burma fell into three main groups:
One account attributes the horse-drawn carriage to the Portuguese, via Macau, although a more likely origin is colonial Burma — Lampang was an important center of timber industry in the early 20th century and saw an influx of migrants from British-controlled Burma.
Bengal ’ s food needs rose at the same time from the influx of refugees from Burma.

influx and against
Many people with LEMS, both with and without VGCC antibodies, have detectable antibodies against the M1 subtype of the acetylcholine receptor ; it is thought that their presence participates in a lack of compensation for the slow calcium influx.
From 1893 to 1899 Weber was a member of the Alldeutscher Verband ( Pan-German League ), an organisation that campaigned against the influx of the Polish workers ; the degree of Weber's support for the Germanisation of Poles and similar nationalist policies is still debated by modern scholars.
The Constitution Party calls for the use of U. S. troops to protect the states against an influx of illegal immigrants.
As the war against Israeli forces in the Sinai was underway, Israel retaliated by heavily bombing key Egyptian military and civilian infrastructure and causing a large exodus of Egyptians from the western bank of the Suez Canal, leading to a large influx of Egyptian refugees.
When Styria came under the hegemony of Charlemagne as a part of Carantania ( Carinthia ), erected as a border territory against the Avars and Slavs, there was a large influx of Bavarii and other Christianized Germanic peoples, whom the bishops of Salzburg and the patriarchs of Aquileia kept faithful to Rome.
Eventually, in the third section, as the Postman joins forces with the Cyclops scientists in a war against an influx of " hypersurvivalists ", he begins to find that the hypersurvivalists are being pressed from the Rogue River area to the south as well.
Euphoria over the military victory against France in 1871 and the influx of capital from the payment by France of war reparations fueled stock market speculation in railways, factories, docks, steamships – the same industrial branches that expanded unsustainably in the United States.
Al-Husseini's vigorous efforts to transform the Haram into a symbol of pan-Arabic and Palestinian nationalism were intended to rally Arab support against the postwar influx of Jewish immigrants.
Even before the Series started on October 2, there were rumors among gamblers that the series was fixed, and a sudden influx of money being bet on Cincinnati caused the odds against them to fall rapidly.
This match potentially could have been ECW's most lucrative pay-per-view main event, and Heyman was depending on it to bring an influx of badly needed finances, but the match never occurred because Van Dam suffered a broken ankle during a successful title defense against Rhino on January 29.
The colonies Columbus established and conquests in the Americas in the decades to come would lead to an influx of wealth into Spain, filling the coffers of the new state that would prove to be the hegemony of Europe only until 1588, when the Spanish Armada disaster against England and Ireland led to the major decline of Spain as an imperial power in Europe.
In 2008, after starting a new section of barrier in Harad district, the Saudis declared that the barrier was necessary for protecting their borders against an influx of illegal immigrants and against the smuggling of drugs and weapons.
In 1468 Orkney became part of the Kingdom of Scotland and an influx of Scottish entrepreneurs helped to create a diverse and independent community that included farmers, fishermen and merchants that called themselves comunitatis Orcadie and who proved themselves increasingly able to defend their rights against their feudal overlords.
There were several Komi rebellions in protest against Russian rule and the influx of Slav settlers, especially after large numbers of freed serfs arrived in the region from the 1860s.
An influx of Scottish entrepreneurs helped to create a diverse and independent community that included farmers, fishermen and merchants that called themselves comunitatis Orcadie and who proved themselves increasing able to defend their rights against their feudal overlords.
With the defeat against the Russians in the mid-19th century and fighting on many fronts, it had to capitulate against Britain and allow an influx of zero-tariff goods along with an increased European military presence on its lands resulting in a weakened position in international relations.
The Russian influx threatened to disturb this natural process, and soon after 1891 protests began to be heard against the " alien immigrants.
Their abilities were valued by Rajput rulers because, in the period prior to the influx of the British to northern India, the Rajput kingdoms were often warring against each other and were also practitioners of conspicuous consumption in their royal courts.
A 2010 academic study has shown that when immigration issues receive national media attention, established residents living in places that have seen influx of new immigrants suddenly become much more politicized against immigration.
Additionally, The rise in sea level has caused increased erosion, as the fresh water vegetation that previously protected against erosion dies due to the influx of salt water.
After ten years of uneasy, undocumented peace, Bayan again marched against Sirmium, wresting it from Byzantine hands after a two-year siege, then took also Singidunum, evicting the Byzantines from the inner Balkans and opening the area to an unstoppable influx of Slavs, that in five years at most flooded all the semi-abandoned region down to the Peloponnesus.

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