Sentence examples for fleeing tyranny from inspiring English sources

We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and persecution.

Even at times of war and danger, when our island status has protected us, we have offered sanctuary to those fleeing tyranny and persecution.

People leaving Syria are fleeing tyranny, not to get jobs".

That throughout our history, people everywhere have been inspired to flee tyranny and the constraints of class to gain liberty and pursue happiness in this great land.

Our Founders fled tyranny, and created a democratic republic out of whole cloth.

"We're opening this space as an embassy for the Benghazi government, and as a place to house refugees fleeing the tyranny," one activist told me.

A vital digression was introduced by the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, candid in exposition of the agonies of a personal dilemma but settling in the end for a pro-intervention view for the sake of refugees fleeing Isis tyranny.

Because there is a huge difference between a young Syrian family fleeing the tyranny of ISIL or Assad, and a student who claims asylum once he has been discovered overstaying his visa, or a foreign criminal about to be sent to a prison in his own country.

Her reluctance to take in Britain's UN quota of 10,000 was all the more embarrassing in that it came after Thatcher had lectured the Soviet premier, Alexey Kosygin, on the plight of the Vietnamese boat people after fleeing "the tyranny of communism".

A nation's ability or willingness to provide information on citizens fleeing its tyranny should wield no power over the United States' decision to provide protection.

It is a part of the American landscape that, like the Statue of Liberty, represented hope and a new beginning for those fleeing the tyranny of slavery in America for a new beginning in Canada.