asylum
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Pirela’s wife, Kemberly Avila, said last week that she and her husband have pending asylum applications.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
While return procedures are accelerated, the government will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to those who seek asylum or are unaccompanied minors and therefore cannot be returned, he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Entering the UK without permission is an offence under immigration law, external, but asylum seekers are generally not prosecuted if they claim asylum on arrival.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
They also cite the potential for what is known as “chain refoulement,” when asylum seekers and refugees are sent by the third country back to the home from which they originally fled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Why didn't they immediately apply for political asylum?
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Greece had its famous asyla, but the custom of our own country was probably influenced from Hebrew rather than classical sources.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
We no longer write of ideæ, chori, asyla, musea, sphinges, specimina for ideas, choruses, asylums, museums, sphinxes, specimens, and the notion of returning to such plurals would seem barbarous and absurd.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English
Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
Orson and Lorenzo, consummate showmen, were summoned to prisons, where they inspected the heads of inmates and guessed their crimes; at lunatic asylums they were challenged to identify the patients’ disorders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
In the 1960s, public opinion turned against involuntary commitments and the abuses of “snakepit” asylums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
It is open to those with an interest in "history and mystery" and involves picking up on paranormal activity using "the latest ghost-hunting equipment" at Willow Court, one of Australia's oldest asylums.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Others suffered nightmares and panic attacks for the rest of their lives, and some shell-shock victims were confined to insane asylums.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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