asylum

[əˈsaɪləm]

Definition:
1. A shelter from danger or hardship.
2. A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person.

Use 'asylum' in a sentence:

1. He sought asylum in the church.
2. Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum.
3. France also wants to establish common European asylum policies.
4. A man is walking by an insane asylum and hears all the.
5. Spain has recalled its Ambassador after a row over refugees seeking asylum at the embassy.
6. The number of refugees seeking political asylum has risen recently.
7. Nine Albanians have crossed the border into Greece and asked for political asylum.
8. He has sought and been granted asylum in Nicaragua.
9. Imagine that there's right now somebody in an insane asylum in Michigan who's got the thought that he is Napoleon.
10. In 2008, only 233 people were granted asylum.
11. Mendoza is here pending his request for political asylum.
12. Batman: Arkham Asylum knocked a lot of people's capes off.
13. Asylum or death?
14. On landing, we immediately sought asylum.
15. When you were 17 your parents had you committed to an asylum.
16. The people ask for political asylum.
17. In Italy he was given asylum and set free.
18. No wonder Mama says love drives people into asylums.
19. Most of those who claimed asylum were refugees.
20. Planning and Construction of Earthquake Emergency Asylum and City Calamity Prevention.
21. It was rumoured that he had been interned in an asylum for a while.
22. The court committed her to a lunatic asylum.
23. The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
24. Those who seek asylum also receive short shrift.
25. Like many students, she passionately defends the asylum law.
26. The asylum cannot be responsible any longer for your support.
27. Several of the asylum seekers now face deportation.
28. But granting Mr Apablaza asylum poses its own risks.
29. Asylums are now called mental hospitals.
30. Everyone in the asylum starts chanting "Fourteen! Fourteen!"
31. The leaders have agreed to harmonize their national policies on immigration and asylum.
32. He said asylum laws may have influenced the choice of destination.
33. We had to put my husband in an asylum.
34. Only 20 of the 60 have won asylum abroad.
35. He was granted asylum in Germany.
36. Fewer than 7% of asylum seekers are accepted as political refugees.
37. The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
38. They campaigned on behalf of asylum seekers.
39. Fewer than 10 percent of applicants are granted political asylum by German courts.
40. The Haitians are eligible to pursue political asylum in the US but have been barred from entry because most have the AIDS virus.
41. Article 15 Aliens who seek asylum for political reasons shall be permitted to reside in China upon approval by the competent authorities of the Chinese Government.
42. He claimed political asylum.
43. The government divides asylum seekers into economic migrants and genuine refugees.
44. There was a nationwide debate on whether the asylum laws should be changed.
45. France has agreed to grant him political asylum.
46. France had agreed to his request for political asylum.
47. He applied for asylum in 1987 after fleeing the police back home.
48. Germany's asylum law is a relic of an era in European history which has passed.
49. Only genuine refugees can apply for asylum.