How to Use asylum in a Sentence

asylum

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  • She was granted asylum after it was made clear that she would be killed if she returned to her native country.
  • She asked for political asylum.
  • Ramirez also huddled the asylum seekers in the front of the church to pray.
    — The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
  • Once that is done, then the feds can manage the asylum seekers, foot the bill and assist our cities.
    — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The arrivals first show that they are allowed to be in the US, while claims for asylum are processed, and then the help begins.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In the past week alone, more than 2,700 asylum seekers arrived in the city, officials said.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Those made to leave the U.S. face gangs and a Mexican asylum system where cases linger for years.
    — Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • New York will spend $25 million in state funds to rent homes for thousands of asylum seekers.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • At the same time, the asylum seeker costs aren’t the only financial issues the city is facing.
    — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Claim: The plan will ‘stop the boats’ by deterring asylum seekers from heading for Britain.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The asylum system, by intent and design, does not gel with this approach at all.
    — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • An Afghan man who recently crossed the border to request asylum now lives in one of the other bedrooms.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • House Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would destroy the process to gain asylum in the United States.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • People granted asylum in Rwanda would not be able to return to Britain.
    — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • On June 4, Ambar and her husband and daughter entered the U.S., seeking asylum.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Mahnaz Akbari, the commander of the platoon, also does not have asylum.
    — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 29 May 2023
  • Many Russians fled to Kazakhstan to avoid the draft, but the authorities refused Zhilin’s request for asylum and sent him back to Russia.
    — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The policy limits asylum access from those who cross through a third country and do not seek protections on their way to the United States.
    — Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • In the rough, cold sea, Mr. Mulki, a 22-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, held his 6-year-old brother Sultan with one arm and a piece of flotsam with the other.
    — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Some of these asylum seekers have family in the U.S., but there's no federal program to settle them.
    — Liz Cheney, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The last bus, which carried 40 asylum seekers including a 9-month-old infant, arrived in L.A. last week.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The rationale was that he was already given asylum in Sweden.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 11 June 2023
  • Many of the migrants are turning themselves into border agents and seeking asylum.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Still, immigration experts warn against using apps in the asylum process.
    — Rosa Flores, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • The asylum process offers the prospect of legal work, but requires waiting at least six months after applying for asylum.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The changes to the agreement allow each country to turn back asylum seekers trying to cross the border at unofficial entry points.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Migrants who show up to a port of entry with an appointment are exempted from the asylum restriction.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 1 June 2023
  • The policy provided the inspiration for the U.K. plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • This week, outside the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, hundreds of asylum seekers from all over the world languished in a slow-moving line, forced to stand in the sun and sleep on the sidewalk.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Some asylum seekers have told the Herald that their first court hearings are scheduled several years into the future.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024

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