He pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Aberdeen and was detained as an enemy alien of military age and deported to Canada, where he spent time in a prison camp in Quebec before gaining refuge.
The group's leader, Ocalan, cleverly played on Turkey's rivalries with neighboring states to gain refuge for his fighters in Iraq, Syria and Iran, which are home to about half of the Middle East's roughly 30 million Kurds.
We, instead, waltzed into a Red Cross office in Minneapolis, where we were temporarily gaining refuge at his sister's condo.
But rather than gaining refuge, some have found themselves the target of discrimination or of retaliation toward Sunni Arabs in general.
Edward Snowden worked as a system administrator as an NSA contractor before leaking secrets about the agency's controversial cyber-spying programs and then gaining refuge in Russia.
Seven people tried to barge into consulates in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang today, the latest in a string of attempts by desperate North Koreans to gain political asylum by taking refuge in Western diplomatic compounds in China.
The present community, deriving its name from New Hope Mills (built there in 1790 after a fire had destroyed several other mills), was founded by William Lathrop in 1900 and has gained fame as a refuge for painters, writers, composers, and actors.
Possibilities (iii) and (v) would result from fitness advantages gained by e.g. refuge from predation, harsh weather, human disturbance or another stressor.
God's Army, an armed group of ethnic Karen, gained notoriety after it gave refuge to another group of Myanmar dissidents -- known as the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors -- who had taken hostages at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok in October 1999.
