(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.
Led
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Lead
(imp. & p. p.) of Lead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(3) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(4) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(5) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(6) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(7) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
(8) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(9) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(10) Displacement of the enol triflate with various sulfinates in acetonitrile or DMF and deprotection of the intermediates led to 7 beta-[(2-amino-4-thiazolyl)(methoxyimino)acetyl]amino]- 3-[alkyl(aryl)sulfonyl]-1-carba-1-dethia-3-cephem-4-carboxyl ic acids.
(11) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(12) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(13) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(14) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.
(15) Addition of extracellular mevalonate led to a concentration-dependent fall in both processes, although a higher concentration was required to produce the same effect on LDL degradation as on HMG-CoA reductase activity.
(16) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(17) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(18) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
(19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(20) Recently reported unfavorable clinical results (i.e., a high incidence of pain) have led to the discontinuation of one trial of porous polyethylene.