For many, it is a holiday, an escape from work on Monday.

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And an escape from his work life in Los Angeles was the idea.

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Feibusch was forced to escape from Germany after his work was featured in the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibition put on by the Nazis to single out the modern style they saw as causing "cultural disintegration".

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Yet capital in India has tended to be in short supply and expensive, whereas labour has remained plentiful and cheap because so many people need work to escape from rural redundancy.

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Mr Kriel's ascendancy gave Mr de Klerk the chance to escape from his caretaker role and to work instead on preserving his reputation.

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Azel, an educated, heterosexual young man from Tangier, is unable to find work and becomes obsessed with his desire to escape from Morocco.

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Beijing is the great crucible of social reinvention, and every child learns that hard work at school is a potential escape route from poverty.

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The recession has turned hours of commuting to and from work into a reality that's hard to escape.

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Enabling workers to be productive from anywhere at any time allows people to be creative when it strikes, and work without constantly checking their watches or seeking to escape from their cubicles.

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''Human trafficking is a crime that can be hidden from public sight, but this modern day slavery will not escape the attention of the authorities and we will work tirelessly to set the innocent victims of such crimes free and hold those responsible for such exploitation to account.

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