Sentence examples for escape from persecution from inspiring English sources

"The pioneer heritage in Utah has to be escape from persecution".

The push factors often were sheer poverty, the desire to escape from persecution, or loss of jobs through economic change.

Macmillan; £20.THE departure from Beijing on May 19th 2012 of Chen Guangcheng, his wife and two children on a plane bound for America marked the end of the most dramatic story of a dissident's escape from persecution in Communist-ruled China.

Human face of migration Complicating the situation are the various reasons for young people's migration, which can range from the search for a better life to an escape from persecution and violence, or forced migration in the form of trafficking.

Ever since the Huguenots  escaped from persecution in 17th-century France, Spitalfields and its surrounds have been a hub of the textile and garment industry.

Mr. Chen's desperate escape last month from persecution to American protection has embarrassed China's leaders and cast new shadows on their commitment to the rule of law.

But some MPs were cast out and a number of Labour apostates only joined the SDP as an escape route from persecution – all done in the bogus name of democracy.

Unlike thousands of mothers and children seeking escape from violent persecution, Rosa is most afraid of dying from lack of access to medical care if he is sent back to Guatemala, where he has no means of support.

In the original Jewish narrative, the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 meant redemption, an escape from the genocidal persecution of the Nazis and a return to the land promised by God (for the religious) or historical precedent (for the secular).

Similar scenes are playing out every day as thousands of refugee and migrant children cross European borders seeking an escape from violent conflict, persecution and deprivation in their home countries.

While the late 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium brought many economic, labor and family reunion immigrants to Sweden from the countries of the former Soviet Bloc, the previous decades were generally characterized by the wave-immigration of asylum-seekers and political refugees escaping from the persecutions in the Soviet Bloc.