flee-boat

flee-boat
flee-boat

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Boat people — is a term that usually refers to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate en masse in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made rendering them unseaworthy and unsafe. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass… …   Wikipedia

  • Boat People (film) — Infobox Film name = Boat People caption = director = Ann Hui producer = Xia Meng writer = Dai An Ping starring = George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau music = Law Wing fai cinematography = Wong Chung kei editing = Kin Kin distributor =… …   Wikipedia

  • boat people — n. refugees who flee their country by sea; Indochinese refugees who fled Indochina by sea in small boats following the Vietnam War in 1975; ethnic Chinese people who fled Vietnam in the same manner after the Chinese invaded Vietnam in 1979 …   English contemporary dictionary

  • The Boat of a Million Years — infobox Book | name = The Boat of a Million Years title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover) author = Poul Anderson illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science …   Wikipedia

  • boatpeople — boat people pl.n. Refugees, usually political ones, who attempt to flee from their native country to other countries by boat: “hundreds of thousands of boat people descending on the nation, arms outstretched in need” (Jerry Adler). * * * …   Universalium

  • Disasters — ▪ 2009 Introduction Aviation       January 23, Poland. A Spanish built CASA transport plane carrying members of the Polish air force home from a conference on flight safety in Warsaw crashes near the town of Miroslawiec; all 20 aboard are killed …   Universalium

  • Refugee — According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Ocean Girl episodes — Ocean Girl (named Ocean Odyssey in the UK) is an Australian science fiction television series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named… …   Wikipedia

  • Inner German border — Innerdeutsche Grenze North and central Germany …   Wikipedia

  • List of The Tribe characters — Main cast and characters from Series 5. This article contains detailed descriptions of characters of the teen sci fi TV show The Tribe. Like many other soaps the series had a large number of characters that increased as the series progressed.… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”