The cobblestoned roads were almost a safe zone for fighters and the remaining residents of east Aleppo.
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Libraries have been a safe zone for me, a kind of emotional and intellectual ground zero for the past 15 years.
Asked what she wants from Americans, Erhaim, the filmmaker, said an end to air attacks on cities, and a safe zone for civilians along the border.
"The goal here is to create a safe zone for everybody -- pedestrians, motorists and cyclists -- to coexist in this part of Brooklyn," Ms. Weinshall said.
But Sebastian won't feel pain: he's a robot, created by students of the university's engineering school to assist researchers at MCity, a 32-acre environment that opened this week as a safe zone for testing driverless vehicles.
The American officials insist that a no-fly zone that would keep Syrian government forces from bombing there is not part of the deal and say they have not discussed formally designating a "safe zone" for returning refugees.
The path to the security council's agreement on a safe zone for Syrians is fraught with obstacles, headed by the reluctance of Russia and China, Syria's most important allies.
On the ground, the most immediate result of Turkey's bluster is to further bolster a de-facto border safe zone for Syria's rebels, who have been in effective control of their side of the frontier since July.
It followed a social media campaign by the LGBTI activist Pauline Pantsdown, who applauded the cancellation as "re-establishing the Mercure Hotel as a safe zone" for LGBTI families and hotel staff.
First, she made it clear that the traditionally safe zone for American political discourse about the economy calling for equality of opportunity, not equality of result was no longer sufficient for her.
