(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.
Ostracize
Definition:
(v. t.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
(v. t.) To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(2) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(3) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
(4) An attempt is made to reveal the escalation of drug abuse in our community as a public health hazard, to initiate the concept of a team approach as the only way to provide early effective treatment, and also to develop preventive measures as the necessary alternative to ostracism and punishment.
(5) While service dogs are known to perform important tasks for people using wheelchairs, such as retrieving dropped items or pulling a wheelchair, they may also serve as an antidote for social ostracism.
(6) The social ostracism would be a very big deterrent," she said.
(7) They have suffered neglect and even ostracism for too long.
(8) Failure to conform to any or all of these constraints may result in professional ostracism or even loss of liberty.
(9) Abortion is many times requested not for ethical, economical or medical reasons, but to obey the rules imposed by a society that still ostracizes certain kinds of behavior.
(10) The consequences for qualified health professionals are well known: there are professional and personal risks — demotion, reprimand, referral to psychiatrists, pressure to resign, careers halted, victimisation, ostracism, exclusion and bullying, disillusionment, isolation and humiliation.
(11) The most frequent responses to AIDS have been scapegoating, resulting in ostracism, stigma, and blame; resignation; use of alternative therapies; political mobilization; and research.
(12) There should be clear consequences including professional ostracism for failing to meet these standards."
(13) Such international ostracism had a powerful effect on the ruling government, but elsewhere some campaigners began to voice concern that organisations were being unsophisticated in their activism, opting for a knee-jerk boycott in every instance and risking the public's goodwill.
(14) Right to work” undermines that union power because it allows workers to pay no dues at all, even in unionized workplaces, and face no penalties except being ostracized.
(15) Even those who condemn his remarks strike a word of caution over his ostracism.
(16) And this week he threw his support behind Riyadh’s diplomatic and commercial ostracism of Qatar , which almost alone among Gulf Arab states has tried to keep on good terms with Iran.
(17) Most of it is limited to publicly naming those workers, to ostracize them, and making snide comments.
(18) My friends would risk neighbourhood ostracism to protest at the unconstitutionality of Ten Commandments posters on classroom walls.
(19) Rejection and ostracism is common; women just have to pick up the pieces and rebuild their and their children's lives and often also rebuild their own communities.
(20) Leprosy deformities have been the cause of dehabilitation, destitution and social ostracism.