How To Use Asylum In A Sentence

An asylum seeker with insulin dependent diabetes has recently had her claim for asylum rejected.
Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum.
Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
His criticism was over the failure to deport foreign citizens after they had served a jail sentence and the backlog of failed asylum cases. Times, Sunday Times
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The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
Another of his great-uncles was called Richard, whose son drowned as a small child and whose wife was so upset by the loss she ended up in a mental asylum.
But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits.
In addition to economic migration there are those fleeing war and persecution or seeking asylum. Times, Sunday Times
He later became insane and was confined to an asylum.
Anyway, according to Peig, that's where all the insane went before there was such a thing as a madhouse or an asylum.
The political and press furore that ensued following his refusal of political asylum was substantial. Times, Sunday Times
At present, the Secretary of State grants asylum to all such claimants.
It refused to say whether any of the migrants had claimed asylum or been asked to leave the country. Times, Sunday Times
It is crucial that asylum policy is aligned on best practice, not the least generous.
It had apparently been hoped that the numbers of long-term patients suffering from dementia would diminish with the rundown of the asylums.
The democratic rights to freely choose one's occupation and place of residency, as well as to immigration and asylum, are being ruthlessly sacrificed to the interests of big business.
The orientation toward nervous ailments at Steinhof, then, embodied an attempt to fight the marginalization of the asylum on a number of levels.
If an asylum-seeker turned up with his family I am sure they would be housed in far better accommodation than these poor people have to live in.
His criticism was over the failure to deport foreign citizens after they had served a jail sentence and the backlog of failed asylum cases. Times, Sunday Times
Through the barred windows, they could see the valley and hills beyond the asylum. Times, Sunday Times
Two weeks ago they were granted asylum. Times, Sunday Times
The protest was organised to highlight concerns at the planned introduction of flotels to house asylum-seekers recently arrived in the country.
WHY their right to residency or asylum is not revoked the moment they are convicted. The Sun
It appears that Rasheed has a history of criticising the Maldivan state religion in his writing - it is a legal requirement for citizens of the Maldives to be Muslims - and he has since written to Amnesty International to request help in seeking temporary asylum. New Humanist Blog
He said ministers had ignored problems about failed asylum seekers and foreign national prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
Some have recently been granted asylum on the basis of having an Irish child.
A Yorkshire takeaway owner who helped obtain false passports for failed Turkish asylum-seekers so they could stay longer in Britain has been jailed for 18 months.
Through the barred windows, they could see the valley and hills beyond the asylum. Times, Sunday Times
Police have also repeated their request that members of the public do not approach the asylum seekers or stop their cars if they are flagged down.
It deals with the occasional situation when a holiday party arrives on a charter flight and claims asylum enbloc.
Making the requirements of the convention more onerous would not deter economic migrants from applying for asylum. Times, Sunday Times
According to these proposals, ‘genuine’ asylum seekers, it seems, are simply flotsam washed up by the tidal wave of persecution.
The majority of those who claim asylum are genuine refugees.
Mr. King Is my right hon. Friend aware of the widespread concern at the large number of people seeking political asylum?
The Government was positioning itself nicely to run a campaign based on its tough approach to dealing with asylum seekers.
He was refused asylum but was granted exceptional leave to remain. Times, Sunday Times
As a member of the Iraqi National Congress, he worked for years to topple Saddam Hussein before being granted political asylum in the United States in 1997.
Outside the stadium, however, the competitors excelled-clocking up a potentially world-beating 106 asylum applications.
They have also closed all offices dealing with asylum applications as they tackle a backlog expected to take more than a year to clear. Times, Sunday Times
But the council also said that frequent changes in immigration and asylum policies had played a fundamental and negative role.
So they decided to take them to an uninhabited planet that would serve as an asylum and where they could roam free and act goofy. Christianity Today
Last week 13 asylum seekers appeared in Luton Crown Court for a preliminary hearing.
Redrawing the national border for migration purposes will force desperate asylum seekers to try to sail in unseaworthy boats all the way to the mainland, evading and fleeing from warships along the way.
This script began with Aunt Lilian's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades.
A person who is in France and wishes to make an application for asylum should properly do so to the French authorities.
The company that forced refugees to wear red wristbands to receive meals has been housing asylum seekers in homes with red plaques on the walls. Times, Sunday Times
His speech is being seen as a veiled attack on asylum-seekers.
I'm the blamedest idiot out of an asylum," he cried bitterly. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
Gypsies from Eastern Europe have sought asylum in Britain.
Hague last night insisted that he would not be silenced by accusations of racism, which he said were designed as a smokescreen to hide Labour's problems over asylum.
Figures yesterday showed the number of failed asylum seekers is still growing as the Government fails to deport refused applicants. The Sun
Nuns also provided cheap personnel for preschools, infirmaries, sanitariums, asylums, soup kitchens, and orphanages, especially in the North.
What country in the world would give him asylum? Times, Sunday Times
Government plans which could result in the children of failed asylum seekers being placed in council care could lead to more problems for Southend's already overstretched social services, it was claimed today.
The Irish magdalen asylum had its roots in the Victorian rescue movement, and many of the magdalen asylums began as lay efforts to rescue and reform prostitutes.
More than 200 asylum seekers were missing after their ship capsized on its way to Australia from Indonesia. What's News
The former asylum opened in 1816 is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order.
Some wore frock coats and fancy ties instead of the dark grey asylum uniform. Times, Sunday Times
On the right is the first victim, the lunatic who had lived his last moments in fear of death, and had sadly found it after seeking refuge in my asylum.
The following month he made a formal application for asylum, giving an address in east London.
Several narratives intertwine as Lovric charts Marcella's tortuous, Minguillo-instigated progress through crippledom, a lunatic asylum and eventually a convent, including that of the fanatical nun Sor Loreta, who mortifies her body and starves herself to attain holiness while being as vile as possible to the less saintly nuns around her. Home
Voucher trouble Shopworkers' union Usdaw has threatened to boycott the government's voucher system for asylum seekers as protests gather momentum.
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There were also in Baghdad numerous colleges of learning, hospitals, infirmaries for both sexes and lunatic asylums.
After an unusually ferocious verbal assault on a member of parliament, he was pronounced insane and shipped off to an asylum in Chiswick.
Something in her tone suggested that the inviolated solitude of the asylum suggested itself to her as a fitting spot. The Palace of Darkened Windows
He said that if Saud is ever released from prison he would likely seek asylum in Britain rather than return to Saudi Arabia, where homosexuals receive harsh treatment. Saudi Prince Given Life Sentence For Slaying Servant In UK
He was ten years old when he was shut away in an asylum for stealing an apple.
About a quarter of all cases lodged in the Court this year have been asylum support cases.
Only genuine refugees can apply for asylum.
It is ridiculous to demand that we should give asylum to those who plot the destruction of our society.
So what happens if a gay, black, single mother police officer discovers that eating more chocolate cures cancer, has a house that suffers a 20% drop in price due to asylum seekers being housed for free in her empty neighbours house (empty because the neighbours are away on an appalling cut-price cruise they got in the Daily Mail). The Truth Behind The £100 Phonecalls « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The government divides asylum-seekers into economic migrants and genuine refugees.
At 22, her father tried to force her to marry a distant cousin she had never met, but she managed to escape to the Netherlands where she obtained political asylum.
If a national asylum were provided there would be no motive for concealment.
The judge replied that most asylum-seekers who were threatened with penury couldn't get near the few underpaid lawyers who were prepared to give them a hearing.
I accept the margins in farming are tight and profits are well down but trying to balance the books at the expense of asylum seekers is not acceptable.
The session on defending communities turned into a riveting debate covering crime, housing, anti-racism and asylum seekers.
The fine red-brick Victorian building complete with clock tower used to be the administrative building of the local county asylum. Times, Sunday Times
Nine days before his leave expired, on 5 August 1994, he applied for asylum.
He has also retained his predecessor's "excision" policy, under which asylum seekers on islands like this one are barred from the mainland's refugee review system. NYT > Global Home
It is viewed as tantamount to a durable solution - settlement in the country of first asylum in practice without necessarily providing the protection of citizenship. Refugees in the Age of Total War
One of its campaigns is an attack on asylum seekers, which recycles a old leaflet used in past BNP campaigns.
The NHS and education systems are a disgraceful shambles and the illegal asylum situation is not only a joke, it is dangerous.
Asylum will be given to people who are persecuted for their beliefs.
Once there, she was given political asylum. Times, Sunday Times
They should conduct demonstrative asylums in and out of the country and propagate the value and effectiveness of the systems among the people.
In 1924, the name of the hospital changed from Lunatic Asylum to a less stigmatic Mysore Mental Hospital.
The Bill's central feature was the creation of a new right of appeal against a refusal of asylum.
Those claimants undermine the claims of genuine asylum seekers, and no one would wish to defend them.
He did not claim asylum at the airport because he was afraid that he would be returned forthwith to Malaysia.
The only countries whose policy is not to extradite refused asylum seekers are Greece and Italy.
They have also closed all offices dealing with asylum applications as they tackle a backlog expected to take more than a year to clear. Times, Sunday Times
Outside the stadium, however, the competitors excelled-clocking up a potentially world-beating 106 asylum applications.
Government, they insisted, had a duty to help the people effect their individual self-improvement, by enacting temperance reform and by building reformatories, asylums, and new-model prisons (all of which required public taxation).
In fact we welcome the contribution of both economic migrants and asylum seekers to our lively cosmopolitan culture. Times, Sunday Times
We will introduce improved welfare and legal rights for genuine asylum seekers and establish substantive rights of appeal.
He is now staying with friends in Levenshulme and plans to appeal against refusal to grant him asylum.
Sri Lankan asylum - seekers intercepted at sea in February will be granted refugee status by Australia.
Clause 7 raises the question whether the asylum seeker wishes to submit any variation or amplification of the notice of appeal.
THE federal government says "push factors" such as unendurable turmoil back home are behind this surge of asylum-seekers. WN.com - Articles related to Tamil Tigers join race for asylum
If asylum is not granted and they are not given refugee status, they may be deported.
Illegal migrants and bogus asylum seekers poured in. The Sun
Once upon a time there were big Victorian asylums where the mentally ill were institutionalised.
I recently interviewed an asylum seeker from Cameroon who was living in Potsdam, just west of Berlin. Archive 2008-01-01
But he is critical, too, of some liberal notions and nostrums about migration, refugees and asylum seekers.
But the council also said that frequent changes in immigration and asylum policies had played a fundamental and negative role.
Clause 7 raises the question whether the asylum seeker wishes to submit any variation or amplification of the notice of appeal.
A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
Today, such a claim would be considered frivolous under the Firm Resettlement Law, which renders claims of asylum irrelevant for aliens who resettle in a third country.
It was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again endeavour to find my brother. Chapter 8
You know the lunatics have taken over the asylum when a climatologist is the action hero of a movie. Several Days After the Day After Tomorrow. Or Thursday. « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
Her parents were granted political asylum in the United States in 1948 following a Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
The report said Government policies of dispersal and direct provision acted to segregate asylum seekers from the community.
Edifices for Divine worship, asylums for the poor and sick, monasteries and nunneries, universities and schools, cathedral and collegiate churches, chantries and preceptories, were founded and endowed in great numbers. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
So Mr Howard made reference to the proposals for off-shore processing of asylum claims, even if that laid him open to charges of pandering to the far-Right's agenda.
One of my brothers cleaned the rooms in the local mental asylum. Times, Sunday Times
And then nothing was left but a heap of disagreeables, a mass of corruption, a senile and disgusting old man fit only for the charity of nuns and the protection of an asylum. The Common Reader, Second Series
They continued free from the hallucinations for two years, when first the mother, and then gradually all the other members of the family, again became afflicted with demonomania and were again sent to the asylum, when, after a residence therein of five months, they were all sufficiently cured to return home. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Reporting psychological disorders is strongly associated with social stigma; the hospital also houses an asylum for the mentally unsound.
Suddenly, when he started to push back asylum-seekers like a sea captain repelling boarders, the polls began to turn.
France has agreed to grant him political asylum.
But the conciliatory gesture itself was significant after the partisan exchanges this summer over policy on asylum and crime.
Villages that suffered dwindling numbers are already benefiting from the asylum seekers' arrival. Times, Sunday Times
The company dropped a policy of forcing asylum seekers in Cardiff to wear the wristbands. Times, Sunday Times
In Ukraine, one former minister is in jail, another is enjoying political asylum in the Czech Republic, and the former prime minister is fighting legal charges of misspending state money. Is Russia Leading a Regional Authoritarian Trend?
In part, this vote has emerged because of the inept handling of the asylum issue by the Government.
The study, so pertinent in its timing, demonstrates that asylum seekers are also victims.
With Vincent at the helm the local support group offer help and advice to the asylum seekers.
More than 40,000 asylum seekers are awaiting rulings on their cases, which take an average of seven months.
The country's asylum laws were amended to staunch the flow/flood of economic migrants.
Admittedly, he plays the baddy, a doctor sent into the asylum to sort things out - i.e. curb this reckless artistic foolery.
A sizeable segment of the population was forced to flee their homeland and to take asylum in other countries.
In addition to economic migration there are those fleeing war and persecution or seeking asylum. Times, Sunday Times
The King was so liberal an almsgiver, that wherever he went throughout his kingdom, he made gifts to poor churches, to lazar-houses, to alms houses, to asylums, and to poor gentlemen and gentlewomen. The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
But, most people with a pathological obsession with ‘race’ are not in asylums, so we must address them as a component of our everyday lives.
Her stepmother wants the family's boarding house for herself - and is prepared to have her lying stepdaughter committed to an insane asylum to get it.
The first Magdalen asylums of the 1800s were smallish ventures offering prostitutes, expectant or post-pregnancy single mothers, and ‘compromised’ girls the option of temporary refuge and moral ‘rehabilitation.’
The deportation of thousands of failed asylum-seekers will also be made a top priority.
They sought asylum in Norway and now live in Skien. Self-Censorship: It’s The Preemptive Way « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
As a result people coming from countries on the list cannot be classified as asylum seekers because, by definition, none of its citizens can be considered under threat.
I think the Home Office should seriously reconsider his urgent plea for asylum forthwith.
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Nuns also provided cheap personnel for preschools, infirmaries, sanitariums, asylums, soup kitchens, and orphanages, especially in the North.
The government is also to consider the appointment of consultants to liaise with local communities on the hosting of asylum seekers.
The government halted its policy of returning Zimbabwean asylum seekers to their homeland.
The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
From the early twentieth century many psychiatrists began to establish private practices in the belief that asylums had become repositories for the incurable.
The number of people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom has risen sharply.
Fortunate that it was so, otherwise a lunatic asylum, or a permanent state of what the doctors call hypochondriasis, might have followed. Canada and the States
Others were labelled infirm, defined as the deserving poor, and provided for by benevolent asylums or charities.
There were demands for asylum seekers to be forcibly tested for HIV and hepatitis.
Asylum seekers also face being electronically tagged to ease the pressure on detention centres.
It even seems to be straying into lurid, B-movie territory as we enter an all too familiar asylum where the patients haunt the corridors, drugged or demented.
Voucher trouble Shopworkers' union Usdaw has threatened to boycott the government's voucher system for asylum seekers as protests gather momentum.
The institutionalization of welfare was catastrophic because of the extremely high rates of mortality that typically characterized these asylums.
Many might seek to use the asylum route and, indeed, it would be naive to think otherwise.
Compounding the problem were proposals to remove asylum seekers right of access to a solicitor under the legal aid scheme.
But what we are talking about specifically in terms of best practices sharing is with respect to biographic data, biometric data, how one identifies who are are refugees, who are asylum seekers. Europe, US Negotiate Data-Sharing Agreement Amid Controversy
He was granted asylum, grew up in Brighton and applied for British citizenship.
And we exposed him as being prepared to offer help to an apparent bogus asylum seeker.
So is political asylum and overcrowding in schools and hospitals. The Sun
My mother's face floated to mind, a pale reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday.
She leads a rather sheltered life, working as a nurse and residing in a state run asylum.
In spring its fruit trees blossomed against the weathered red brick of the asylum walls. Times, Sunday Times
The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
Bethlem's name gave rise to the word bedlam, and comes from a shortened version of St Mary Bethlehem, the name of one of the oldest asylums in the western world. From Bethlem to Bedlam
The Austrian-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights said the Czech Republic is the only known EU nation which continues to use "phallometric testing," in which male asylum seekers who claim to be gay are hooked up to a device which monitors blood flow to the penis while being shown heterosexual porn. Czechs Slammed For Bizarre 'Porn Arousal' Test For Gay Refugees
Omar, a Syrian, resides in Britain, which granted him political asylum years ago.
This is where desperate immigrants, former showbiz stars and ancient juvenile delinquents seek asylum.
If you need to escape an oppressive regime, can you afford to advertise that fact by filling out an asylum claim in the street?
Finally, threatened with harm for his role in shielding 1,268 Tutsis and moderate Hutu from near-certain death over 100 days during the Rwandan genocide, he sought asylum in Belgium and found work driving a taxicab. Paul Rusesabagina biography
Council officials moved swiftly to squash rumours of scores of asylum seekers moving to Canvey.
Asylum, a nine-screen installation, takes western assumptions about "exotic" foreigners and destroys them through hyperextension. Artist of the week 110: Julian Rosefeldt
I interceded with an influential friend to gain the youth political asylum.
This happened on the GST, on the capital gains tax, on the subsidy to private health funds, and on asylum seekers.
The Convention was addressed to the rights in the country of asylum of those recognised as refugees. Times, Sunday Times
‘The refugees and asylum seekers are generally law-abiding and educated and have no inclination towards crime,’ he said.
This increase occurred after the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act, which denied refugees access to social housing, began to bite.
Home Office officials believed his story and granted asylum to him and his wife and children.
Still retaining his Zimmerman and his senses, he looked down and beheld the corniferous quadruped gamboling playfully round his singular asylum. Sketches — Volume 04
A study by the Irish Refugee Council examined the experiences of asylum seekers in Cork, Ennis and Limerick who rely on hostels for food and supplies.
He said they shut down the asylum over in Nyman a year ago, and a lot of people are on the loose that shouldn't be. A Record Book for Small Farmers
Nine Albanians have crossed the border into Greece and asked for political asylum.
Should our courts permit the removal of an asylum seeker to that other country for the legal procedures there to address the asylum claim? Times, Sunday Times
But asylum seekers have been so demonized in Britain that all blame has gravitated to the detainees, who have been lumped together as ungrateful arsonists.
More bare-faced and bold by far is The Asylum, the Cormanesque micro-studio whose stock in trade is the "mockbuster". LA gets blown up once again in Battle: Los Angeles
With the help of a lawyer at a charity, they were granted asylum for five years. Times, Sunday Times
There must be more to it than we're being told, unless these particular asylum seekers simply hadn't heard that the old Howard government "towaway zone" or "lock 'em up offshore and throw away the key" policies were no longer operative. Global Voices Online
But one day Flibbertigibbet -- so Sister Angelica called the little girl from her first coming to the Asylum, and the name clung to her -- was sent to the infirmary in the upper story because of a slight illness; while there she made the discovery of the "Marchioness. Flamsted quarries
Makine was born in Russia but was granted asylum in France in 1987 when he was 30.
A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
Detained Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival.
Algerian departmental prefects therefore signed contracts with asylums in southern France for their patients' treatment at Algerian expense.
The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
In successfully arguing Cunningham's case for asylum, Weinberg also said Jamaica's sodomy laws banning sex between men and "dancehall" music - whose lyrics often advocate violence against gays - made life for Cunningham unbearable. Undefined
After his return to Lithuania he suffered a mental collapse, and he died in an asylum near Warsaw.
‘The fact that the vast majority of recently arrived asylum seekers are excluded from the workplace creates a situation where they are seen as spongers,’ he believes.

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