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Example sentences for: asylum

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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.
Recent changes in the law prohibit asylum applications from persons who have been in the United States for more than a year.
India has not yet decided whether to grant him asylum.
The same newspaper had a scoop over the weekend about how Fidel Castro's daughter had applied for asylum in Spain, but was likely to be denied it.
15 From before the 1983 amendment until 1986, the categories of eligible aliens included: (1) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence; (2) an alien who was either married to a United States citizen or was a parent or an unmarried child under the age of twenty-one years of such a citizen and who had filed an application for adjustment of status under the INA; (3) an alien who was lawfully present in the United States as a refugee or who had been granted asylum by the Attorney General; (4) an alien who was lawfully present in the United States as a result of the Attorney General's withholding of deportation; and (5) an alien lawfully present in the United States as a result of being granted conditional entry.