(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.
Sanctum
Definition:
(n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antibacterial spectrum of E. alba was in between that of T. chebula and O. sanctum.
(2) Wallace Broecker's office looks at first glance what you might expect from the inner sanctum of one of the world's leading geoscientists and oceanographers.
(3) The dressing room door is the ultimate inner sanctum.
(4) The leaf extracts of Ocimum sanctum, Lawsonia inermis and Calotropis gigantea and leaf and flower extracts of Azadirachta indica were, however, found to inhibit both mMDH and mME.
(5) "You don't have to be in the inner sanctum of everything to be able to exercise influence in leadership," he says.
(6) Its concentric passageway symbolises the guided, ritualised walk of the common man towards the sacred inner sanctum of the democratic parliament hall.
(7) Where her predecessors were accused of appointing women as “window dressing” but keeping them out of the room where big decisions are taken, May seems to be doing the reverse: building an inner sanctum in her own image while filling the shop window with figures reassuring to those diehard backbench Eurosceptics who could otherwise make her life as impossible as John Major’s.
(8) The activity against Salmonella organisms was shown only by T. chebula; against Shigella organisms by T. chebula and E. alha; but not by O. sanctum.
(9) Grierson was handpicked by James Cameron to use the Canadian film-maker's 3D Fusion Camera System on Sanctum.
(10) A methanol extract and an aqueous suspension of Ocimum sanctum leaves were investigated for their immunoregulatory profile to antigenic challenge of Salmonella typhosa and sheep erythrocytes by quantifying agglutinating antibodies employing the Widal agglutination and sheep erythrocyte agglutination tests and E-rosette formation in albino rats.
(11) I remember as a boy being allowed into the inner sanctum of the light room and sitting inside the space between the lenses, looking out at the world through the bevelled glass.
(12) Gaby Hinsliff : She has built an inner sanctum in her own image – but has given top jobs to only seven women The one thing nobody expected from Theresa May was a cabinet stuffed with middle-aged men.
(13) Effects of restraint stress (RS) and its modulation by O. sanctum (Os), eugenol and T. malabarica (Tm) were evaluated on some biochemical and biophysical parameters in rats.
(14) Defections from the regime's forces to the Free Syria Army have been constant for the past few months, but Damascus maintains control of many key divisions and is not known to have lost any members of its most elite units or inner sanctum.
(15) The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander – along with David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg – is a member of the quad, the inner sanctum on which the coalition is built.
(16) An ethanol extract of the leaves of Ocimum sanctum was screened for its effects on the central nervous system.
(17) Wonderingly, you wander upstairs and into the sanctum of his bedchamber.
(18) So near yet so far: inside the inner sanctum, but outside the inner circle.
(19) Persistent bombing by Syrian military jets and artillery has been unable to dislodge armed opposition groups who have been poised on the edge of the capital's inner sanctum, but unable to advance.
(20) He said it was around 10 October, but most of what remained of the inner sanctum was forming a protective guard weeks earlier than that.