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Example sentences for: asylum

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Lino Oviedo, who fled to Argentina in March after he was accused of involvement in the assassination of Paraguay's vice president, was exiled to a remote Patagonian island last week for violating the terms of his asylum, reports the Buenos Aires Herald . Oviedo, who had agreed not to make political pronouncements, broke his pledge by declaring that he should be running Paraguay.
Minor was tried, found insane, and committed to the asylum at Cawthorne—hence the title of Winchester's book in Britain: The Surgeon of Cawthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Love of Words.
He is Emerson--except that, like a lunatic in an asylum, he has spent a lifetime in the mistaken belief that he is Hawthorne.
1157) (relating to refugee admission) or who has been granted asylum by the Attorney General under such Act;
Lying in the insane asylum in St. Remy after one of his seizures, he could gaze in the southern light at the Japanese prints with which he'd decorated the room and the Japanese-like flowers blooming outside the window.