What's the difference between asylum and institution?

Asylum


Definition:

  • (n.) A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.
  • (n.) Any place of retreat and security.
  • (n.) An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
  • (2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
  • (3) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
  • (4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
  • (5) In addition, the UK government will provide further resources to the European Asylum Support Office to help Greece and Italy identify migrants, including children, who could be reunited with family members elsewhere in Europe.
  • (6) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (7) We are disappointed by the statement from Ecuador’s Foreign Minister that Ecuador has offered political asylum to Julian Assange.
  • (8) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
  • (9) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
  • (10) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
  • (11) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
  • (12) I think there have been concerns expressed going back to our time in government about ensuring safety at sea in all of these operations, including the possibility of turnbacks, safety at sea not only for asylum seekers but also importantly for Australian personnel.
  • (13) But a former Manus immigration caseworker, Liz Thompson, told Guardian Australia on Tuesday she was aware of at least three cases where asylum seekers on Manus had presented their sexuality as a reason for their persecution during protection interviews since September last year, indicating the department would be well aware there were gay asylum seekers on Manus.
  • (14) She is still waiting to hear whether she will be granted asylum.
  • (15) Also, we’ve had a number of people want to donate directly to the asylum seekers we’re following for this series - Said and Wali Khan Norzai .
  • (16) Quite a few have been referred over their reporting on the government’s asylum seeker policies.
  • (17) The review, conducted by Keith Hamburger, a former director general of the Queensland Corrective Services Commission, found that asylum seekers had been told in March 2013 that their claims would be completed within four to six months.
  • (18) In an extensive interview with Guardian Australia, Coleman spoke out for the first time about the state of Australia’s asylum-seeker policies.
  • (19) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
  • (20) The authorities’ report also cited concerns that those who are granted asylum will bring their families over to Germany too, Bild said.

Institution


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
  • (n.) Instruction; education.
  • (n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.
  • (n.) That which instituted or established
  • (n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
  • (n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.
  • (n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
  • (n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (3) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (5) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (6) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
  • (7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
  • (8) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
  • (9) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (10) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
  • (11) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (12) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
  • (13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (14) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
  • (15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (16) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
  • (17) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
  • (19) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
  • (20) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.