Sentence examples for as sanctuary from inspiring English sources

Money sent from Pakistan, as well as sanctuary there for the Taliban leadership, underlies the insurgency's vigour.

Under her supervision, 25 of the 47 surviving dogs were classified as sanctuary dogs and placed with seven different shelters.

It is a surprise, perhaps, that Mondrian – like Barnett Newman – saw the studio as sanctuary as well as workshop.

At a certain point, Bob's utopian vision of the yard as sanctuary was bound to collide with street conflicts.

Ayer is sceptical about Hollywood films that lust over hardware, but says in this case it's important to see the tank as sanctuary as well as a weapon.

On Sunday, Ms. Gillibrand said she no longer favored branding immigrant-friendly cities such as New York as "sanctuary cities" and denying them federal tax benefits.

That was a breaking point, dividing our lives into before and after, and the world into pre- and post-, and we've all had to succumb to the awful 9/11 shorthand that compresses the loss of almost 3,000 lives into a couple of digits, and the wider loss of America-as-sanctuary into a date.

Older churches were designed just as sanctuaries.

They were set up as sanctuaries for the defenseless.

Stereotypes and pigeonholes can, in a stable multiethnic society, act as sanctuaries as much as cells.

He envisioned zoos as sanctuaries for species threatened by the accelerating development of their natural habitats.