Synonym: home, institution, madhouse, refuge, shelter. Similar words: easy, as yet, fantasy, take it easy, idiosyncrasy, glum, plump, lumpy. Meaning: [ə'saɪləm] n. 1. a shelter from danger or hardship 2. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person.
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121. Many of those refused asylum had faced arrest, detention and torture upon their return to Sri Lanka, according to the report.
122. The process of accepting or rejecting his asylum application hasn't even begun.
123. This increase occurred after the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act, which denied refugees access to social housing, began to bite.
124. Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement, can go to the end of the queue.
125. But I find them particularly disturbing when related to the death of a refugee seeking asylum in Britain.
126. Voucher trouble Shopworkers' union Usdaw has threatened to boycott the government's voucher system for asylum seekers as protests gather momentum.
127. They were going to get married when they could move into a little house on the grounds of the asylum.
128. Her mother, mentally unstable, eventually entered an asylum in 1885.
129. That campaign is racist in intent and is against the interests of people who are seeking asylum from situations of great danger.
130. A Bill will be introduced to enable applications for asylum in the United Kingdom to be dealt with quickly and effectively.
131. From his well-appointed quarters at the asylum, the Marquis has continued to write his famously horrid fiction.
132. It will prevent the misuse of asylum procedures while protecting the position of genuine refugees.
133. It is crucial that asylum policy is aligned on best practice(Sentencedict.com), not the least generous.
134. At the same time, though, it has carefully refrained from protesting at the decision to grant the boy asylum.
135. That is why we shall introduce the Asylum Bill, which will be debated next week.
136. In the United States we don't have asylum seekers, we have immigrants.
137. Which is why Mr H is still frightened to return and continues his battle for asylum.
138. The Government announced on 19 February that it was abandoning its plan to abolish legal aid in asylum cases.
139. His father went mad, and was confined to an asylum; maybe that was the disorder Hoover feared.
140. The Bill deals with the treatment of asylum seekers and procedures for determining their claims.
141. He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers.
142. In the past six years there have been three asylum laws stiffening up procedures.
143. The result, says Shelter,[sentencedict.com/asylum.html] is that many asylum seekers are living in overcrowded private rented accommodation with friends and family.
144. Outside the stadium, however, the competitors excelled-clocking up a potentially world-beating 106 asylum applications.
145. The bill also contains measures that would make it more difficult for refugees from persecution to seek asylum in the United States.
146. They claim that some asylum applications are not even recorded, because the foreigner concerned is deported before seeing a magistrate.
147. The current average waiting timeto determine whether an asylum claim is genuine is 13 months.
148. Detained Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival.
149. After giving testimony in 1997 and 1998, Levar had tried several times to gain financial support and asylum in another country.
150. Refugees granted asylum or allowed to stay made up a small proportion-just over 10,000 in 1999.
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