What's the difference between sanctuary and shelter?

Sanctuary


Definition:

  • (n.) A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.
  • (n.) The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem.
  • (n.) The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.
  • (n.) A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship.
  • (n.) A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
  • (2) Conservatives have called for federal funding to be curtailed if a municipality maintains a “sanctuary” policy.
  • (3) Other kinds of intelligence, particularly that on the effect of drone attacks on the leadership of al-Qaida and its allies in Pakistan , also suggest that the frontier zone is not the sanctuary it once was.
  • (4) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
  • (5) Just last year, a researcher at Jane Goodall's primate sanctuary in South Africa suffered "multiple and severe bite wounds" after getting too close to a group of chimps and being dragged off.
  • (6) In the town of Boali, 60 miles to the north, the Catholic priest Xavier-Arnauld Fagba went from house to house and into the bush to offer Muslims sanctuary in his church .
  • (7) Instead, he called on Catholic parishes to offer sanctuary to refugee families.
  • (8) Lord Dubs: refugees face greater hostility than ever in 2017 Read more “We have a record of which we are justifiably proud in relation to refugees, giving sanctuary to 8,000 last year, and children are continuing to arrive every year.
  • (9) The infiltrative characteristics of acute monocytic leukemia and the anatomic barriers and location of the testicles may have provided a sanctuary from chemotherapy.
  • (10) Fielding nods enthusiastically: 'By running a butterfly sanctuary in Peru.'
  • (11) The MCS has warned, however, that fragile coastal habitats such as estuaries, saltmarsh and bird sanctuaries are excluded from any proposed new routes.
  • (12) Leukemic invasion of the eye should receive appropriate recognition; the posterior pole should be included in the treatment of the central nervous system as a pharmacologic sanctuary.
  • (13) May said the coalition's plans for emergency sanctuary had been cleared with the UNHCR in London and had its endorsement.
  • (14) A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The UK has a proud record of offering sanctuary to those who need it, but people who do not have a genuine need for our protection must return to their home country.
  • (15) Attendance at scientific sessions of learned professional societies and short courses should be accompanied by presession and post-session guided reading to be undertaken in the physician's home library-sanctuary.
  • (16) Nevertheless, he will be offered the sanctuary of the vulnerable prisoner unit, where most of his peers will have been convicted of sexual crimes.
  • (17) The conjunctiva may well be an iatrogenic "sanctuary site" when this disease is treated with PUVA therapy.
  • (18) This progress has resulted from a closely integrated scientific effort, including drug development, pharmacology, preclinical modeling, experimental design with respect to clinical trials, quantitative criteria for response, and a series of clinical trials (initially in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia) in which the importance of complete remission, of dose and schedule, of sequencing chemotherapeutic agents, of pharmacological sanctuaries, and particularly of combination chemotherapy was studied.
  • (19) They’re allowed to offer help, as many do, but the idea that sanctuary policies are somehow going to be struck down in the courts is absurd because they’re totally legal,” Graber said.
  • (20) The decision to recall the ambassador was taken “in protest at the increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation in the Noble Sanctuary, and the repeated Israeli violations of Jerusalem,” Jordan’s Petra news agency said.

Shelter


Definition:

  • (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
  • (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
  • (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
  • (v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
  • (v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
  • (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
  • (2) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
  • (3) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
  • (4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
  • (6) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
  • (7) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (8) Around a third of Gaza's 1.8 million people have been displaced, many now living in United Nations shelters.
  • (9) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
  • (10) The UK donated £114m which funded shelter for 1.3 million people and clean water for 2.5 million.
  • (11) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
  • (12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
  • (13) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
  • (14) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
  • (15) She is just one of many people who have contacted Shelter about cuts to SMI payments.
  • (16) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.
  • (17) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
  • (18) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
  • (19) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
  • (20) The only way for the government to turn this crisis around is to urgently invest in genuinely affordable homes Campbell Robb, Shelter The Land Registry – whose data is viewed by many as the most comprehensive and accurate – said the typical price of a home reached £181,619 in June.