Sentence examples for self-imposed asylum from inspiring English sources

Agoraphobics are inmates in a kind of self-imposed asylum, prevented from escaping by the violent panic attacks that overcome them when they try to step outside: What would I do if I were on that screen, a character in one of my films?

With 11 days left in the bitter election campaign, the Coalition broke its self-imposed information blackout about "on-water matters" to tell voters it had intercepted a boat of 21 Vietnamese asylum seekers recently.

Genuine asylum seekers, fleeing war and persecution, are the last people who should suffer because of our self-imposed chaos.

Edward Snowden, meanwhile, is still in Russia in a self-imposed exile (he supposedly left the Moscow airport he'd been holed up in for over a month last week, after being granted asylum in the country).

A self-imposed rule.

This exile was self-imposed.

This is self-imposed uncertainty.

It's more a self-imposed detachment.

The test is self-imposed.

Increasing self-imposed moral conduct".

The hardship was romantic, self-imposed.