Sentence examples for were compelled to flee from inspiring English sources
And while some characterize Muslim arrivals as a supposedly unique threat, the xenophobia of the present carries direct echoes of a very different moment: The years before World War II, when tens of thousands of German Jews were compelled to flee Nazi Germany.
Hancock and Congress returned to Philadelphia in March 1777, but were compelled to flee six months later when the British occupied Philadelphia.
Six children living in the Rocky Mountains are compelled to flee a dangerous, evil force.
He was compelled to flee Russia and went into hiding for several months after his work visa was revoked.
Véra Nabokov was Jewish, which was why the family had been compelled to flee Europe in 1940 aboard the Champlain.
For her and others who are compelled to flee conflict, the relief we provide is vital for survival and has to be immediate.
Thousands displaced by the 2012 violence have been living, segregated, in camps, while thousands more have been compelled to flee by land or sea.
To settle into his own purpose, desire and achievement is to be compelled to flee them: as he fled his wife and daughter and, had he lived, as he would have fled Agnes.
When his father died and a dynastic struggle arose among Abū al-Ghāzī and his brothers for the succession to the throne, he was compelled to flee to the Ṣafavid court of Iran in the city of Isfahan, where he lived in exile from 1629 to 1639.
And that Israel's Arab population has continued to grow, even as the Jewish population in neighboring Arab countries was compelled to flee, evokes at best a yawn.
They were compelled to participate in them.
