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  • Some Mexicans and Mexican Americans have jokingly dubbed the influx la reconquista -- the reconquest of lands once held by Mexico.†   (source)
  • Thanks to an influx in funding from the state of Kentucky and an overenthusiastic social worker, I'd become part of this pilot program.†   (source)
  • Now and then there was an influx of student nurses.†   (source)
  • And we realized the importance of our coming missions, to halt the ever-burgeoning influx of Taliban recruits streaming in over the high peaks of the Hindu Kush and to capture their leaders for interrogation.†   (source)
  • As in Colorado Springs, the huge influx of white, middle-class voters from southern California has played a decisive role in the Rocky Mountain West's shift to the right.†   (source)
  • Similarly a good part of the Hills found itself swept away with the massive land deals and influx of investments during the 1970s and 1980s.†   (source)
  • Mike and I took turns mowing all the abandoned foreclosed properties in the complex—heavy rains in the spring had turned yards into jungles, which encouraged an influx of raccoons.†   (source)
  • Inside Amity Harbor's courthouse, opposite the courtroom's four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island.†   (source)
  • Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials.†   (source)
  • Jormundur glanced out over the influx of warriors, then looked back at Eragon and Roran.†   (source)
  • They had gotten separated as a new influx of marchers came up the stone steps.†   (source)
  • During the early part of Willemse's tenure, in 1971-2, there was a steady influx of captured MK soldiers.†   (source)
  • The summer influx of tourists and vacationers had begun.†   (source)
  • "Nobody knew what to do about it, so they just sort of ignored it," Karen Feltz said of the influx of refugees.†   (source)
  • Annette and a few other women were delighted by the influx of new reading material and borrowed from my library with abandon (and permission).†   (source)
  • They reacted indifferently to the influx.†   (source)
  • But Mortenson needed to visit the schools CAI funded in the refugee camps outside Peshawar and see if they had the capacity to deal with the influx of new refugees the fighting was sure to send their way.†   (source)
  • The companies did not encourage the women to come—they did not want an influx of poor colored settlers in those towns—but the women came anyway and took jobs as domestics and farm helpers in the towns, and lived wherever housing was free or dirt cheap.†   (source)
  • From my spot observing the daily influx, I once saw a proud Eritrean woman carrying a heavy basket; inside was something large, sprouting, with a surface that was red, raw, and weeping.†   (source)
  • A recent influx of Hungarian Jews into our neighborhood had swelled their ranks, and they formed a small but highly vocal element of the school's student population.†   (source)
  • Coltan, along with gold and diamonds and the influx of armies and militias from Rwanda and Burundi, had provided some of the fuel for the Congo's wars.†   (source)
  • Philadelphia was different because of the heavy influx of Scots-Irish immigrants in the decades just before the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • They believed a second country hewn out of the U.S., one perhaps made up of America's southern states and relying heavily on cotton and agriculture, would be eager to secure a reliable cash influx.†   (source)
  • Dennis Hoagland had established the firm in the mid seventies, when another influx of newcomers was arriving.†   (source)
  • It is the month of vacations and the influx of tourists, and when the sun attains its full glory but not its greatest heat.†   (source)
  • As soon as they had realized the unbelievable extent of the destruction that was occurring in the city proper, they began preparing for the imminent influx of the war's latest refugees.†   (source)
  • Villages, towns, whole cities could be divided into "family" terrains, all profiting from the influx of Western capital and technology.†   (source)
  • The one influx of Glatun credits we got is more influx than this region has ever seen.†   (source)
  • Piedmont evidently wanted the air conditioners installed quickly, for the coming of warm weather brought with it an influx of the concerned and the committed who journeyed to Yamacraw to see firsthand the victims of southern society.†   (source)
  • Silas sank into his chair powerless, under the double presence of an inexplicable surprise and a hurrying influx of memories.   (source)
  • And even the influx of officials, even the return of the doctor, vulgar and acute, could not shake her belief in the eternity of beauty.   (source)
  • This was dangerous stuff, but we had to stop the influx of armed terrorists.†   (source)
  • I tried to put it out of my mind on Saturday, as the Elite were obligated to entertain the influx of ladies at the palace in the Women's Room in the morning and have yet another dance rehearsal in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • It had quickly become obvious that they wouldn't be able to maintain over five hundred different blockades or fend off the massive influx of gunters.†   (source)
  • For them, the influx had meant not cut-rate nannies and gardeners, but heightened job competition, depressed wages, overcrowded government services, and a reduced quality of life.†   (source)
  • Those hardest hit by the influx of immigrants are disadvantaged native-born minorities who don't have a high school degree -- namely, African Americans and previous waves of Latino immigrants.†   (source)
  • Between 1980 and 2000, a Harvard University study found, the influx of immigrant workers to the United States cut wages for native workers with no high school diploma by 7.†   (source)
  • The growing influx of women and children will fuel questions already raging about immigration: Is it good for the migrants themselves, for the countries they come from, and for the United States and its citizens?†   (source)
  • But in recent years, disputes over soccer in public parks were occurring more frequently around fast-growing cities like Atlanta, due largely to the influx of immigrants—particularly Latinos—from soccer-playing cultures around the world.†   (source)
  • The faces in this seemingly endless influx of vampires were the antithesis to the Volturi's expressionless discipline—they wore a kaleidoscope of emotions.†   (source)
  • Any influx of new prisoners means problems, as new personalities are injected into the mix, and scarcity places more demand on both staff and inmates.†   (source)
  • She went to the best school in Amman and lived at a comfortable distance from the problems of that city, including poverty and the tensions brought on by the influx of Palestinian and later Iraqi refugees.†   (source)
  • When I started bringing an influx of visitors in the spring, curious people who heard about the island and who came basically to pity, to commiserate, and to poke around, it gave me and the kids almost Satanic pleasure to flip on the record player, challenge an unsuspecting guest to a contest in classical music, then let the well-drilled students maul them.†   (source)
  • Again, in 1830, there was a larger influx.†   (source)
  • Atlanta was again the center of activities for a wide region, as it had been before its destruction, and the town was receiving a great influx of new citizens, both welcome and unwelcome.†   (source)
  • She tried to regain the entrance tunnel, but an influx of villagers swept her back.†   (source)
  • The King's coming here will mean an influx of money into this country.†   (source)
  • With every influx of light comes new danger.†   (source)
  • So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.†   (source)
  • Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind.†   (source)
  • There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness.†   (source)
  • Nature, truth, virtue, are the influx from thence.†   (source)
  • Other tributary currents crossed the mainstream, bearing their freight to the theatres, restaurants or opera; and Mrs. Peniston, from the secluded watch-tower of her upper window, could tell to a nicety just when the chronic volume of sound was increased by the sudden influx setting toward a Van Osburgh ball, or when the multiplication of wheels meant merely that the opera was over, or that there was a big supper at Sherry's.†   (source)
  • And even the influx of officials, even the return of the doctor, vulgar and acute, could not shake her belief in the eternity of beauty.†   (source)
  • And though he liked them all, he rather regretted his own Levin world and ways, which was smothered by this influx of the "Shtcherbatsky element," as he called it to himself.†   (source)
  • While Mr. Brooke was sealing this letter, he felt elated with an influx of dim projects:—a young man capable of putting ideas into form, the "Pioneer" purchased to clear the pathway for a new candidate, documents utilized—who knew what might come of it all?†   (source)
  • As the animosity of fate would have it, there was a great influx of custom in the course of the afternoon.†   (source)
  • The man who was with Caderousse was evidently a stranger to the South of France; he was one of those merchants who come to sell jewellery at the Beaucaire fair, and who during the month the fair lasts, and during which there is so great an influx of merchants and customers from all parts of Europe, often have dealings to the amount of 100,000 to 150,000 francs.†   (source)
  • The room being by this time very warm and somewhat crowded, in consequence of the influx of four gentlemen, who had just killed each other in the piece under representation, Nicholas accepted the invitation, and promised to return at the conclusion of the performances; preferring the cool air and twilight out of doors to the mingled perfume of gas, orange-peel, and gunpowder, which pervaded the hot and glaring theatre.†   (source)
  • Silas sank into his chair powerless, under the double presence of an inexplicable surprise and a hurrying influx of memories.†   (source)
  • Thus the white population grows by its natural increase, and at the same time by the immense influx of emigrants; whilst the black population receives no emigrants, and is upon its decline.†   (source)
  • The people growled at the sight of the red-coats; the armed men of the Committee stood undecided, not knowing what to do; and indeed this new influx so jammed the crowd together that, unorganised as they were, they had little chance of working through it.†   (source)
  • When I had absorbed a chestful of this clean air, I looked for the conduit—the "air carrier," if you prefer—that allowed this beneficial influx to reach us, and I soon found it.†   (source)
  • The red-room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion.†   (source)
  • The influx of the flood tossed him like a log forward into the cabin, where he would have drowned but for the refluence of the sinking motion.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, as the new railroad brings with it great trade and a constant influx of strangers, the lord of Vanity Fair is its chief patron, and the capitalists of the city are among the largest stockholders.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bulstrode, like every one else who knew Caleb, was used to his slowness in beginning to speak on any topic which he felt to be important, and rather expected that he was about to recur to the buying of some houses in Blindman's Court, for the sake of pulling them down, as a sacrifice of property which would be well repaid by the influx of air and light on that spot.†   (source)
  • Thus, Hepzibah was well content to acknowledge Phoebe's vastly superior gifts as a shop-keeper'—she listened, with compliant ear, to her suggestion of various methods whereby the influx of trade might be increased, and rendered profitable, without a hazardous outlay of capital.†   (source)
  • In essence, the Mediterranean receives a continual influx of water not only from the Atlantic but from rivers emptying into it; since local evaporation isn't enough to restore the balance, the total amount of added water should make this sea's level higher every year.†   (source)
  • Suddenly an influx of light filled my house, though the evening was at hand, and the clouds of winter still overhung it, and the eaves were dripping with sleety rain.†   (source)
  • For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings; and, as by contemplating the relation of these general representatives to each other we discover what is really important to men, so, by the repetition and continuance of this act, our feelings will be connected with important subjects, till at length, if we be originally possessed of much sensibility, such habits of mind will be produced,…†   (source)
  • …Ireland, an ideal neighbourhood for elderly wheelmen so long as it didn't come down, and in the wilds of Donegal where if report spoke true the coup d'oeil was exceedingly grand though the lastnamed locality was not easily getatable so that the influx of visitors was not as yet all that it might be considering the signal benefits to be derived from it while Howth with its historic associations and otherwise, Silken Thomas, Grace O'Malley, George IV, rhododendrons several hundred feet…†   (source)
  • Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation, Extoller of armies and those that sleep in each others' arms.†   (source)
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