(n.) Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
(n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
(v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
(a.) Small; slender; thin; fine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later.
(3) He is not the only jailed or exiled opponent of the CCP.
(4) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(5) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(6) However, internal divisions arose within the army, and by July 1985 Obote was once again on the ignominious road to exile, first to Kenya, and then to Zambia, where fellow independence leader Kenneth Kaunda allowed him to stay.
(7) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
(8) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(9) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
(10) Unsurprisingly, Romney is polling ahead of his rival among Cuban Americans in Miami, where exiles have traditionally supported successive Republican candidates for their hardline stance against the communist regime of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl.
(11) The crackdown has alarmed activists and outspoken intellectuals, with some resorting to exile.
(12) Irritated by a press conference in Qatar at which the Taliban attempted to portray themselves as a government in exile, Karzai suspended talks on a long-term security deal to keep US troops in Afghanistan after Nato leaves in 2014.
(13) The exiled municipal authorities agreed – perhaps sealing the fate of the city even should it be cleared one day for repopulation.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(15) The regime maintains tight controls over all religious institutions in the country: Islamic, Christian, Druze etc,” said Ammar Abdulhamid , a Syrian dissident and democracy activist living in exile in Washington.
(16) They have already forced government exporters to sell their dollars, and same will happen for banks I guess, so in a sense, capital controls are already in place,” said Sergei Guriev, an exiled economist who fled Russia after criticising the Kremlin.
(17) The exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said he has “no obligations” to Vladimir Putin as he outlined his plans to take on the Russian government in London.
(18) Security forces were also reported to be preparing to attack al-Bayda after protesters blocked the airport runway to prevent reinforcements arriving, according to one exile group.
(19) Yanukovych is insisting he remains president of Ukraine, despite being in exiled in Russia.
(20) Fresh flowers have been placed on the grave of the exiled Polish prime minister Władysław Sikorski, buried in the town after he died in an air crash in Gilbratar in 1943.His remains were removed to Poland in 1993 after the fall of communism.
Immigrant
Definition:
(n.) One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(4) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(5) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(6) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(7) This is a rare diagnosis but it should still be kept in mind, particularly in the immigrant population of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia and particularly of the Saudis from the southern provinces.
(8) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
(9) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
(10) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
(11) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
(12) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(13) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
(14) America is made up of immigrants and to shut the doors to others is just ludicrous.
(15) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(16) The campaign has used mobile billboards warning illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest".
(17) It would seem that Cameron's repeated high-profile speeches on immigration may have more to do with meeting the political challenge of Ukip than grappling with any alleged problem of benefit or health "tourism".
(18) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(19) Respectable Europeans may damn the nationalist parties that have risen up against mass immigration as “far right”.
(20) Removing that economic incentive is the most powerful thing we can do to reduce levels of immigration back to what British people want to see,” he said.