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  • With one successfully repatriated daughter, Papi might yank us all out of college and send us back.†   (source)
  • Rath served a year in prison under Malaysia's tough anti-immigrant laws, and then she was supposed to be repatriated.†   (source)
  • He knew the U.S. State Department had internalregulations about the forcible repatriation of foreign nationals, particularly when it came to communist countries.†   (source)
  • The ship of the voluntary repatriates was SS Marine Angel.†   (source)
  • A prisoner of war repatriated.†   (source)
  • Once the Russians are defeated,' he went on, you will be repatriated through Switzerland.†   (source)
  • Now a force made up mainly of descendants of the Tutsi exiles in Uganda was attempting what one scholar describes as "an armed repatriation."†   (source)
  • We turned them over to the Glatun for repatriation.†   (source)
  • And then there are German and Austrian prisoners of war lured by the promise of freedom and repatriation.†   (source)
  • We are hoping the new tax policy will encourage multi-national American companies to repatriate profits back into this country for investment.
  • They hope to repatriate the ancient artifacts and place them in the new museum.
  • The Mexican Repatriation was very real and an often overlooked part of our history.†   (source)
  • They were the first of Canada's Japanese to follow soon under Canada's Japanese Repatriation plan.†   (source)
  • Repatriation and dispersal policies the crudest cut of all.†   (source)
  • Two WEEKS EARLIER, Leslie had told me that I was to be "repatriated" and reinstated into normal society.†   (source)
  • Scores of men were so ill that they had to be carried from camps, and it was common for men to remain hospitalized for many months after repatriation.†   (source)
  • She always carried the fear that she could he sent hack on a whim, even though repatriation had long been over.†   (source)
  • Because Los Angeles was teeming with repatriated soldiers, inexpensive housing was all but impossible to find, so Louie was still living with his parents.†   (source)
  • I suspected he had found me a foster home and that I was going to be "repatriated"—the term used to describe the process of reuniting ex–child soldiers with their former communities.†   (source)
  • The numbers of Mexicans deported during this so-called "voluntary repatriation" was greater than the Native American removals of the nineteenth century and greater than the Japanese-American relocations during World War II.†   (source)
  • For decades, Rwanda's governments had refused to repatriate those refugees, and like most countries where exiles tried to make new homes, Uganda didn't want them either.†   (source)
  • In Deo's view, the critique contained far too little appreciation for the government's accomplishments -- rebuilding institutions virtually from scratch, repatriating about two million refugees, providing security for a traumatized population in the face of persistent armed attacks from genocidal forces in exile.†   (source)
  • This assured assistance from the government as outlined …. will mean, to many who desire repatriation, relief from unnecessary anxiety and it will allow them to plan for their future and that of their children, along economic, social, and cultural lines which they fear might be denied them were they to remain in Canada.'†   (source)
  • Isamu Nakane In accordance with the segregation programme which is now being carried out by the Government, you will be required to move to Kaslo where you will await Eastern Placement; as Slocan project has been selected as a Repatriation Camp and will house only those who have elected at the present time, or who may elect in the near future, to return to Japan.†   (source)
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