give refuge
Example Sentences
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Unlike other groups, Sausedo said, there are “no more African American communities” to give refuge to residents, but “just communities where African Americans live.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023
And because that visa program, created by Congress to give refuge to Afghans and Iraqis who helped the U.S. military, requires rigorous vetting, many have been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for years.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021
However, the Foreign Office referred a question about whether Britain would agree to give refuge to any of the men on the run to the Home Office.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2017
The Redoubt does give refuge to more than its fair share of outlaws, whether ageing draft-dodgers or crooks on the lam.
From Economist • Aug. 4, 2016
Before Egypt appeared the danger of a war with Libya, which could in no case give refuge to men in such numbers, men accustomed only to comforts and military exercise, not to poverty and labor.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah
