Sentence examples for facing internment from inspiring English sources

Cara – the Council for At Risk Academics – is a UK charity set up in 1933 which helped academics expelled from Germany's universities, and those facing internment by the UK, including neuroscientist Marthe Vogt and molecular biologist Max Perutz.

Tamils, by most independent accounts, still feel alienated.Those fleeing the Tigers face internment in bleak conditions and often a desperate search for family members.

During World War II, second-generation Japanese residents, called nisei faced internment in the United States and in Canada on the basis of their race.

He recalled how, early in the war, his family was given three days to leave their home in Southern California or face internment.

This was in spite of the fact his British naturalisation status meaning he did not face internment.

Neither Vogt nor Pertuz, who was Austrian, were helped out Nazi Germany, but Cara provided help when they were faced with internment by the UK.

The rest were left behind to face assassination or internment camps.

We set out to tell a family story that mirrored the tensions that the Japanese-American community itself faced during the internment.

But President Clinton said that facing racial slurs and forced internment, Japanese-Americans had not gotten a fair deal.

Like the story of Harvey Itano, a Japanese-American chemist who faced hardships in WWII internment camps in California.

"In Britain, Blair bulldozed through parliament a new brand of internment claiming that Britain faced a similar emergency," Peirce says.