escape valve

“Right now, Europe has the Mediterranean Sea blocked, which means that the Atlantic route, which is more dangerous and lethal, has become the escape valve.”

“Music functions like an escape valve,” he says.

The government of President Vladimir V. Putin has long understood the value of providing escape valves for public discontent, as it gradually monopolized power and erased alternatives to its rule.

Shannen Michaela said people from well-off Western nations are increasingly looking for a “Plan B” or escape valve they can use to flee economic stagnation and growing government oppression in their home countries.

The system works as a sort of escape valve, Kousser said, letting the majority in the state feel in power regardless of what’s happening in Washington, D.C.