After losing the civil war to the communists, he set up what he and the US thought would be a temporary haven in Taiwan in 1949.
While Jordan offered a temporary haven, Syrian refugees were denied access to most forms of work and Hasna was among those who had to move.
RAMTHA, JORDAN — This impoverished Jordanian city across the border from Dara'a, Syria, has become a temporary haven for Syrians who continue to flee the violence that has swept their country.
The first, the so-called escape clause, allows domestic industries to receive a temporary haven from imports when they can prove to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that the imports cause them, or threaten to cause them, serious economic injury.
Shellfire and a severing of power and telephone services suggest it may soon face a similar onslaught.The Damascus slum of Nahr Aisha, in the south of the city, has become a temporary haven to hundreds of families from the stricken provinces.
Originally a munitions-supply depot for New York State's National Guard, the Central Park Arsenal Building has lived many lives since it was erected, in 1848: as a short-term home to some collections of the Museum of Natural History, a police precinct, a temporary haven for a menagerie of P. T. Barnum's animals.
Wilson brushes aside the reality of rude and harassing treatment in the mixed-sex cars to rejoice in this temporary haven, without seeming to realize that it is one more control mechanism that keeps her out of sight, out of mind.
Snowden's choice of Hong Kong as his temporary haven, for example, was only glossed over, perhaps because it brings too quickly to mind the two epic US consulate runs committed last year, by the Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun, and of human rights advocate Cheng Guangcheng, both of which put the Chinese government in an embarrassing light domestically and internationally.
He led a consulting firm that became a temporary haven for at least 15 former First Franklin employees.
