Sentence examples for refuges from inspiring English sources

In contrast to Allin, Gary Barlow accepted an OBE publicly for his good works, despite privately playing his part in closing hospitals, schools, shelters, and women's refuges across the land.

Sometimes it was embarrassing to roll up on council estates, at women's refuges, probation hostels or queues of the homeless at midnight soup kitchens – but never mind the car, she could put anyone at their ease.

The consequences, however, have been seen in more rough sleeping, the closure of women's refuges and a host of other impacts on the most vulnerable.

"Women's refuges have received no increase in funding and we've lost many of them in New South Wales," she said.

Other groups scattered around Britain have launched hundreds of similar grassroots campaigns, from saving women's refuges to opposing youth club closures.

It came only after submissions from experts such as academic Frank Campbell, who told the commission, "The fact is inescapable: in a severe fire, houses are not refuges.

The uncertainty has prompted a flight from production and into traditional refuges such as gold, property and even carpets.

So the Afghan president has sent forces to fight anti-Pakistan militants in their refuges in eastern Afghanistan, an unthinkable course under Mr Karzai.

The island, where the explorer Ernest Shackleton found refuge, is one of the most least-visited places on Earth.

The civil war, which shows no signs of abating, has cost the lives of more than 200,000 people; left nine million internally displaced and 3.8 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.

In his case, you’d guess that it was related to an introspection developed in response to an unsettled early life and, second, to an imagination that served (and presumably serves) as a refuge from the knocks he took then.