asylum

“Because you don’t get asylum does not mean you committed fraud, it just means you were ineligible.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Carney said Tuesday that he had spoken with Smith to discuss future cooperation and noted that there had been large reductions of asylum seekers, international students and temporary foreign workers in Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The U.S. government granted Omar’s family, refugees from Somalia, asylum in 1995.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Protection is only granted if there is an actual, well-founded fear of persecution," Germany's migration and asylum agency, BAMF, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

On May 8, 1889, with the help of Reverend Salles, and with Theo's blessing and financial support, Vincent checks himself into the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

In the 1960s, public opinion turned against involuntary commitments and the abuses of “snakepit” asylums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024

It is open to those with an interest in "history and mystery" and involves picking up on paranormal activity using "the latest ghost-hunting equipment" at Willow Court, one of Australia's oldest asylums.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

Others suffered nightmares and panic attacks for the rest of their lives, and some shell-shock victims were confined to insane asylums.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman