exile
Example Sentences
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In a bid to relieve economic pressure -- and meet US demands -- a senior economic official in Cuba announced Monday that Cuban exiles would now be able to invest and own businesses there.
From Barron's
From the first days of his rule, the Fidel Castro referred to Cubans who went into exile as “gusanos,” Spanish for worms.
Cuban exiles have demanded multiparty elections, freedom of speech, the release of political prisoners and other reforms.
From Los Angeles Times
But 15 years later, Ikbal -- then 57 and a member of an exiled Iranian Kurdish armed group -- was killed near the Iraqi-Iranian border.
From Barron's
On the other side of the river, counter-demonstrators waved US and Israeli flags along with the Lion and Sun Iranian flag favoured by exiles.
From Barron's
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