Sentence examples for fled the zone from inspiring English sources
Some families have fled the zone, or melded into more rural areas.
A farmer who lived within sight of the plant defied evacuation orders to search for his missing father, wife and older daughter, then reluctantly fled the zone to save his youngest girl from further exposure.
Serbian policemen cracked down on a separatist movement in the province of Kosovo yesterday, firing mortar rounds at villages, setting fire to homes and appearing to shoot at men indiscriminately, according to those who fled the zone.
Indeed, the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement, a Colombian research group based in Bogota, reported that last year, some 3,900 people fled the zone because of threats and accusations of being informants of the armed forces or paramilitary groups and from systematic human rights violations.
Hundreds of Serbian policemen pounded villages in central Kosovo with mortar rounds today, set fire to homes and appeared to shoot at men indiscriminately in a sweep to stamp out a separatist movement of ethnic Albanians, according to those who fled the zone.
The U.N. and relief agencies have said the Tigers are using children in the safety zone as soldiers and laborers while preventing civilians from fleeing the zone, effectively using them as shields.
If it all gets a bit too much for them, all they need to do is flee the zone of no-phones and everything goes back to normal.
Thai news outlets reported that one of the more militant protest leaders, Arisman Pongruengrong, who is also a popular singer, fled the protest zone in disguise.
Treasury bond yields actually fell after the S.& P. downgrade, as investors fled the euro zone in search 0f safer places to put their money.
Several of these groups were hit by airstrikes as they fled the battle zone and many militants killed, according to the detainees.
It has also asked for at least $155 million in aid from foreign governments to deal with the estimated 200,000 refugees who have fled the war zone.
