Sentence examples for taking asylum in from inspiring English sources

I play a government whistle-blower taking asylum in a South American embassy.

One of the first Russians to entertain the thought of taking asylum in England in case things got tough in Russia was Ivan the Terrible.

By the end of the three days of violence, Ballymurphy was a war zone; 7,000 people, including Briege, had left Belfast as refugees, taking asylum in army camps opened by the Republic of Ireland.

She has taken "asylum" in Holly Sykes.

After her shooting she got medical care and then took asylum in Britain.

Berahino has a remarkable personal story, having fled civil war-torn Burundi to take asylum in England.

"I've had so many offers to take asylum in other places, but this is my country, and I'm not going to leave," he said.

"Snowden was well aware of the spin that would be put on it if he took asylum in Russia," Assange says.

In 1947 Bustamante outlawed the People's Party, and, after General Manuel Odría overthrew Bustamante (1948), Haya de la Torre took asylum in the Colombian embassy in Lima from 1949 until 1954, when he was allowed to go to Mexico.

Colonel Qaddafi, perhaps with the three of his seven sons who have not been killed by NATO air strikes or taken asylum in Algeria, is presumed to be heading farther south across the desert with his closest comrades.

WASHINGTON Iranan's conservative establishment appears to have reacted coldly to an entreaty by Brazil's president to allow an Iranian woman convicted of adultery to take asylum in Brazil rather than face execution by stoning at home.