(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.
Pled
Definition:
() of Plead
() imp. & p. p. of Plead
Example Sentences:
(1) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(2) The third pleiotropic gene, pleD, is described here for the first time.
(3) Neck stiffness and cerebrospinal fluid findings were improved and PLEDs disappeared.
(4) This is in contrast to the normal outcome for 8 of the 11 infants who did not have PLEDs.
(5) The electrographic characteristics of PLEDs in these infants were similar to those reported in neonatal herpes simplex encephalitis and in older children and adults.
(6) Although a great deal of attention has been directed to the neuropathological basis of PLEDs, little emphasis has been placed on the functional basis of this EEG syndrome.
(7) Over 100 film industry insiders signed a letter in support of Roman Polanski , who pled guilty to "unlawful sex" with a 13-year-old.
(8) A 74-year-old woman reveal typical periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLED's) on the right hemisphere.
(9) Three patients are described with pathologically verified Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) who presented with localizing clinical signs accompanied by focal electroencephalographic abnormalities including periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDS).
(10) Although PLEDs are usually seen in association with an acute or subacute disturbance of cerebral function, the findings in this group of patients show that chronic PLEDs also can occur in patients with long-standing seizure disorders or chronic brain lesions.
(11) Ischemic strokes associated with PLEDs have some characteristic features: old age, vascular risk factors, parieto-occipital areas infarcts and frequent association with TIAs.
(12) PLEDs was found in acute dysfunction of CNS, and in epileptic patients in periods of increased seizure activity.
(13) All episodes were accompanied by the occurrence of periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) on the EEG, which became normal when the ictal episodes subsided either spontaneously or after administration of diazepam i.v.
(14) EEG obtained on the fourth hospital day showed right-sided PLEDS and on the fifth hospital day a generalized seizure occurred.
(15) She later showed periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs), originating in the left hemisphere, which were temporally associated with nystagmus retractorius.
(16) Low amplitude rhythmic discharges (RDs) closely associated in time and in spatial distribution to inter-ictal epileptiform discharges are not seen in scalp EEGs of patients with non-periodic focal epileptiform discharges (NPEDs) but they are unexpectedly common in patients with periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs).
(17) We postulate that the EEG phenomenon of PLEDs could be considered a part of the status epilepticus condition.
(18) But Senate minority leader Harry Reid pled for action on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
(19) A retrospective study was carried out in 147 patients who had been found to have periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs).
(20) Our case is significant for the following reasons: 1) PLEDs maximal right and left occipital areas associated with bilateral visual loss has not previously been observed; 2) abnormal electrical activity in the occipital lobes may be a reversible cause of Anton's syndrome.