Sentence examples for temporary sojourn from inspiring English sources

Two years ago, while on a temporary sojourn in London, Mr. Haden-Guest, 75, became delinquent on his payments to a Queens self-storage company, where he had been housing what he said were nearly a half-million dollars' worth of books, art, clothes and personal papers.

The new hukou rules allowed peasants only temporary sojourn in cities and excluded them from urban citizenship.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became; the author George Woodbury described it as "no city of homes; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population," continuing, "The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on; all others were transient".

Even in the 1930s, while the government agreed "to admit Jewish academic refugees, this was based on the understanding that their sojourn in Britain would be temporary, and indeed, most of the scholars themselves expected to move on to the USA," he wrote in an e-mail.

Most of them considered their sojourn in Germany to be only temporary; they were "sitting on packed suitcases", as they put it, and travelled to Israel at regular intervals.Defensiveness made German Jews try hard sometimes too hard to be better friends of Israel than any other diaspora Jews.

It's best when they are on public display, but if they have special value their sojourns in private hands are likely temporary.

He argued that "art works have migrated throughout history," and that if they have special value, "their sojourns in private hands are likely temporary".

Schindler's sojourn in Los Angeles was meant to be temporary.

How girls can succeed in business 80 YEARS AGO IN FORBES DECEMBER 27, 1919 The big difference between young men and women in business is that the former know they have many years of work ahead, while the latter often feel that their sojourn in the business world is to be temporary.

It sometimes feels as though Dickinson's sojourn in print, so fraught from its inception, was a temporary measure, now nearing its end as it's replaced by a better technology.

As debate rages in Congress over a proposed immigration law that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants and temporary working visas for hundreds of thousands, the reverse journey of the dead suggests that for many Mexicans the sojourn to the United States, legal or not, is meant to be temporary.