Sentence examples for were asylum from inspiring English sources
"The suspects were asylum seekers.
But a substantial number of the families were asylum seekers — people from Iraq, Somalia, Iran, Romania.
At the time, about one in eight pupils at the school were asylum seekers.
A number of them were asylum seekers or refugees whose first language wasn't English.
An earlier version said the two men for whom Laws had granted an interim injunction against deportation were asylum seekers.
Of those seen in the capital, 15% were asylum seekers, while 12% had a visa, the highest proportion observed in the European countries of the survey.
Some of them, it seems, were asylum-seekers, who are not allowed to work while their applications are being processed.
The suspects arrested in last week's raid, of a flat in north London that had been used to manufacture ricin, a deadly poison, were asylum-seekers, mostly from Algeria.
According to the UNHCR's most recent report for 2013 [ 3], 51.2 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide by the end of 2013, of which 16.7 million were refugees and 1.2 million were asylum-seekers.
Among subjects with a non-Swiss origin, 5 (10.9%) were asylum-seekers, 3 (6.5%) had a non-permanent residence permit (type B permit, valid for five years), 24 (52.2%) had a permanent residence permit (type C, with unrestricted access to labor market) and 13 (28.3%) had become Swiss citizens.
