(1) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(2) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
(3) The protests have sparked an exodus of Chinese nationals, many of whom have fled to neighbouring countries or further.
(4) Australia has also previously granted refugee status to people who fled these countries.
(5) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(6) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
(7) The St Anna parish – Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri in Italian – accepted one of two families it promised to take in: a father, mother and two children who fled their home in Damascus.
(8) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(9) The pair are thought to have fled the UK on a flight to Pakistan by using passports belonging to associates from the south of England.
(10) A high court judge sentenced him to 22 months in prison in February 2012, but he fled the country before he could be jailed.
(11) One of the clients, Vladimir Makhlay, a businessman who fled to the UK in 2005, agreed to pay New Century Media £75,000 a month for strategic advice – "including support for Mr Makhlay's application for a British passport".
(12) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
(13) It was delivered as Bangladesh announced around 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled the violence across its border.
(14) The United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) wants western nations to accept 30,000 of the 2.3 million Syrians who have fled their country.
(15) On Saturday an idle digg ing machine signalled the hasty clearing of the building site to make way for the refugees, who have fled from countries including Syria and Eritrea .
(16) On the edge of Goma, in the shadow of the active Nyiragongo volcano, Mugunga hosts some of the 30,000 people who fled their homes following the upsurge of fighting that began in April.
(17) Embittered, he fled to America, settling in Langley, Virginia, a stone's throw from CIA headquarters.
(18) Most of these students have already experienced significant trauma, the very reason they fled their countries for the United States,” she wrote.
(19) I saw a lot of blood, people injured and children running," said Carlos Alberto, who fled into the forest and hid.
(20) Preliminary murder charges have been lodged against two men – both students at Islamic religious schools, who were arrested at the scene after being overpowered by bystanders – and against a third assailant who fled and has yet to be found, an officer said.
Forsook
Definition:
(imp.) of Forsake
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead, we served as the weight that helped my parents understand this country – we forced them to learn English, as our Spanish waned; we translated documents that navigated them through this country’s byzantine tax codes and healthcare system; we taught them enough American politics so that they forsook their conservative leanings every election year and voted Democrat (You’re welcome, Hillary).
(2) When the world abandoned the Syrians, forsook them, they had nothing left to do – they went back to their creator, and asked ‘Ya Allah, please help us.’ This song was a way to translate their chant through my orchestra and piano into a universal language.” All of Jandali’s music relates to Syria.
(3) He is a nine-term member of Congress who worked with the Clinton administration to balance the budget and a twice-elected Republican governor of a significant swing state who forsook his über-conservative roots.
(4) The players had arrived by coach, but after the game Rooney and Ferdinand forsook the community-style transport and hired a limo.