Dozens of protesters were arrested at the demonstration and inside the nearby National Press Club, where participants took refuge, a Dhaka metropolitan police official said on condition of anonymity in line with police policy.
O.K., some of them are already here: in the 1950's, thousands who fled Communist persecution sought refuge in the New York metropolitan area, making it the largest Mongolian community outside Asia.
Taking refuge from a postwar metropolitan world in which culture seemed to be all sold out or worn out, this concentration of talents, struggling to catch up with European and US trends, produced one genius: Roger Hilton.
Sensuous, chromatically singular and transcendentally iconic, the single-color paintings of Thursz (1925-1992) offer visual and spiritual refuge from the bustle of metropolitan life.
One example is a $1,735,000 grant to expand the Rocky Mountain Greenway, a pedestrian and bicycle trail system that will connect the Denver metropolitan area's trail systems, three national wildlife refuges in the region and Rocky Mountain National Park, above.
Beyond the scenic views or flora and fauna, metropolitan area homeowners who live near a national wildlife refuge now have a different reason to appreciate the proximity.
Linda and her two little boys, a family Dr. Green bonded with while volunteering at My Sister's Place, a battered women shelter in the metropolitan DC area, returned to her abuser after seeking temporary refuge at the shelter.
(Theorists of the liberal metropolitan elite will take note). For the first time since the 1940s, when Lisbon was a refuge from the war, says Pestana, the city is "really cosmopolitan".
A visitor center with exhibits and information about the refuge was opened in 2008 off of Oregon Route 99W near Sherwood in the Portland metropolitan area.
That McDonald's was a refuge; it was one of the few places where a black teenager could easily find work in the St . Louismetropolitan area.
