asylum
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The ruling led hundreds of people to flock to government refugee centres in recent days, reportedly including people who do not qualify for asylum.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Rohingya make up two-thirds of the roughly 190,000 Myanmar refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia, according to United Nations data.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Foster said some of the fake asylum applications would have "undoubtedly" been granted.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Italian border police stopped him, and Lee asserted asylum, claiming that prosecutors were seeking his death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He also felt that crime and corruption was rising in Manila and even in Baguio, and although he enjoyed living there, he was uncertain about gaining, or even wanting, asylum.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Greece had its famous asyla, but the custom of our own country was probably influenced from Hebrew rather than classical sources.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
We no longer write of ideæ, chori, asyla, musea, sphinges, specimina for ideas, choruses, asylums, museums, sphinxes, specimens, and the notion of returning to such plurals would seem barbarous and absurd.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English
Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
Orson and Lorenzo, consummate showmen, were summoned to prisons, where they inspected the heads of inmates and guessed their crimes; at lunatic asylums they were challenged to identify the patients’ disorders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
The Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023
From the 1960s to ’80s, as most asylums closed, the Supreme Court and other federal courts attempted to establish tighter restrictions on forcibly treating people under civil mental health laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2023
I couldn’t stop reading about the horrors—especially the stories about orphan asylums filled with unloved and underfed waifs.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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