Sentence examples for opened a refuge for from inspiring English sources

In the 1930's, during the Depression, the city opened a refuge for homeless men in rural Orange County.

A former slave, nurse and midwife, Biddy Mason purchased this land for $250 more than a century ago and opened a refuge for black families.

Macedonia at least has tried to take action: the government has gained international praise for opening a refuge for the women and moving to close bars and send some of the women home.

"It was quite a thing," said John Bergmann, who runs the seven-acre zoo, opened in 1977 as a refuge for mistreated and abandoned animals.

World heritage-listed Kakadu national park is a landscape of unsurpassed beauty, with world-renowned wetlands attracting extraordinary numbers of birds, thundering waterfalls that plunge from towering escarpments into natural rock pools and open woodlands that offer a refuge for a wide range of native animals.

Previous studies have found that climate change will likely turn the United Kingdom into a refuge for many butterflies, as warming temperatures open up previously inhospitable habitats.

The following year the sisters opened schools in other Australian cities, as well as an orphanage and a refuge for women released from prison.

Now a refuge for men and women, cantinas are busiest between 2 pm and 5 pm, but stay open until midnight.

David Zabriskie "Cycling was a refuge for me.

Art was not a refuge for her — she had no refuges, only respites.

And it was a refuge for learning.