As many corporations fled Iraq in the midst of escalating violence in 2004, Klein thought she "was seeing the first failure of this economic crusade because corporations that had taken small steps towards investing in Iraq and being part of this privatization frenzy were all pulling out because they were afraid for their lives".
We fled Lebanon in the midst of religious strife.
We now know, for instance, thanks to cellphone footage, that the late South Carolina man Walter Scott was shot in the back while fleeing, not in the midst of a scuffle with an officer, as police had claimed.
Forced to flee Turkish persecution in the midst of his studies at Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey), Nicodemus entered a monastery on Mount Athos.
Mr. Liebman said many teachers flee schools that are in the midst of reform and instilling a "culture of accountability".
It begins in recent times with Paolo Pellegrin's evocative images from the Arab spring, specifically Tunisia and Egypt, in 2011: people chanting, marching, fleeing; chaos, disorder and, in the midst of it all, a sense of great hope.
One could choose different moments to begin the chronology, but most Peruvians would agree that the country's fall from grace, and from self-faith, began with Fujimori's ten-year Presidency, which ended ignominiously in 2000, when he fled the country to Japan, in the midst of an erupting corruption scandal involving his right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's spy chief.
Polanski remains a fugitive from U.S. justice, having fled the country in 1978 in the midst of his highly sensationalized statutory rape case.
They deliver good-will speeches to local leaders who stare blankly, then ask, "If you really want to help us, why don't you leave?" An Afghan boy flees from his village in the midst of a firefight the American presence has provoked, looking back toward the camera and calmly blowing a bubble as bullets hiss past.
Another is to become an information gatherer or check others' facts roles which are much easier for people in relative safety to perform than those who are in the midst of fleeing their homes, she says.
