(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.
Runaway
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
(n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
(a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
(a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
(a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
(a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.
Example Sentences:
(1) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
(2) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
(3) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(4) A case of a unipolar surgical electrocautery-induced runaway pacemaker is described.
(5) Although runaway is infrequent with current generation pacemakers, it should be considered in addition to the more common causes of pacemaker malfunction in the patient with appropriate symptoms.
(6) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(7) Characteristics found to be significantly associated with program outcome included: race; probation; drug abuse; program intervention; home visits; and runaway behavior.
(8) The "lock-in" effect is the single most important factor increasing the danger of runaway climate change, according to the IEA in its annual World Energy Outlook, published on Wednesday.
(9) A 16-base-pair fragment, deletion of which completely inactivated oriC, was replaced by a temperature-dependent runaway-replication derivative (the copy number of which increases with temperature) of the IncFII plasmid R1.
(10) He vowed to to stop the runaway train of bureaucracy in its tracks, “giving our teachers more time to do what they do best”.
(11) (He says his own job suddenly changed five years ago, too: from trying to stimulate economic activity in Williston to attempting to manage the runaway growth.)
(12) As population rises, this argument runs, consumption will increase and place an impossible strain on natural resources, from water supplies and agricultural land to fish in the ocean, as well as giving rise to runaway climate change as we burn ever more fossil fuels.
(13) Australia is already the globe’s biggest coal exporter and “mega-mine” plans in Queensland for more extraction are identified as the world’s second biggest “ carbon bomb ” threatening runaway global warming.
(14) Clinical experiences and laboratory studies are described involving a population of workers who were exposed in a plant making 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), including a trichlorophenol runaway reaction.
(15) This indicates that the runaway pacemaker is still a potential problem, even in newer pacemakers, and reemphasizes the unpredictable and serious nature of this medical emergency.
(16) Whitehall insists it is only the threat of non-payment that keeps runaway EU spending in check.
(17) Significant numbers of runaway and street youth are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
(18) If a battery heats up beyond 80C you hit what is called thermal runaway, where the components start to decompose, and that’s when it can explode.” The specific cause of Samsung’s issues with exploding batteries is unknown, the company just cites “ a battery cell issue ”.
(19) Only in this way – by doing everything possible to make reductions everywhere, rather than polluting in one place and offsetting in another – does the world have a good chance of avoiding runaway climate change, such critics claim.
(20) 29 June: Jason Owen moves into the home with a 15-year-old runaway girl.