Sentence examples for escaped confinement from inspiring English sources

In the process they created a virus that could kill tens or hundreds of millions of people if it escaped confinement or was stolen by terrorists.

Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail, but one strand had broken loose and she repeatedly tucked it back in, looking embarrassed, as though something more private than a lock of hair had escaped confinement.

Two months ago we warned that a new bird flu virus — modified in a laboratory to make it transmissible through the air among mammals — could kill millions of people if it escaped confinement or was stolen by terrorists.

When the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng escaped confinement and beatings to find temporary refuge in the United States Embassy in Beijing, he thrust a huge unanticipated problem into talks between American and Chinese officials.

Dillinger became a national celebrity as a bank robber who eluded arrest and escaped confinement several times.

Some bats have been translocated while incubating infectious diseases, including rabies or related lyssavirus infections; others have escaped confinement en route to or at their destinations, while others have been released deliberately.

Though she managed to escape confinement in a prison camp by telling the Japanese she was Eurasian, her husband, Charles, was held as a military prisoner.

The most recent David Cohen winner, Julian Barnes, gave the Clarissa Luard money to the Reading Agency, which encourages young prisoners with learning difficulties to escape confinement in their imaginations by reading for pleasure.

Her speech is repeated, in German (Ms. Caspersen provides dispassionate translation), by George Reischl, plucking obsessively at his shirt, his head and shoulders swooping and jutting as if desperately attempting to escape confinement.

With only about 15,000 page views, the YouTube video remains something of a Web sleeper, which makes little sense because now more than ever what the world needs is a six-minute film of a desk-bound office drone escaping confinement for the seedy nighttime streets of Los Angeles.

This manner of radical directing and acting was necessary to capture this tension shot with quick pacing, as close as possible to the body, a body that in order to escape confinement only thinks about making it through, [End Page 223] of getting by.