asylum

This, the court said, was because the provisions prevented some individuals from accessing the asylum system on procedural grounds, including if they entered the country irregularly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

South African protesters clashed with foreign nationals on Thursday, police and an AFP reporter said, as tensions over migration were reignited by a court order that government must restart processing asylum applications.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

They are thought to have aided dozens of asylum claims from Bangladeshi men, claiming they would be in fear for their lives if they returned home.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Italian border police stopped him, and Lee asserted asylum, claiming that prosecutors were seeking his death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But he views it all from the prison of his hurting mind, as if the window of the asylum is his perspective frame.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

The Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023

In the 1960s, there was a major push in California and nationally to close asylums and treat people with serious mental illnesses in their communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

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