"He used to say, 'I want to go somewhere in the mountains, to be all by myself, to escape from everyday life, to be alone, '" Suleimanova said.
She also had no reason to escape her life and was not a troubled teen.
Most join voluntarily, many to escape a life of crushing poverty and misery.
In a bid to escape everyday life, they braved fierce storms and climbed up the cliffs with their bare hands.
The machine has been dubbed a MacGyver Bot, after the TV character who cobbled together devices to escape life-threatening situations.
Gwyneth Jones, of the Pound Green Commoners' Association which looks after the common, said Mr Chance probably came to the Worcestershire green to escape city life.
After all, though there are deprived areas in the UK they can't be compared with the grinding poverty of Venezuela's slums where the incentive to escape to a better life is surely much greater.
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"Off-grid living is a spectrum that unites greens and survivalists, " says Rosen, referring to those who choose to escape city life because they either don't trust the government or don't want it meddling in their affairs.
Literature not only offers them a chance to escape the tough and monotonous life in prison but allows them to acquire knowledge which will be useful when they are released.
They have no escape from the responsibility to live life to its fullest, which is a both a privilege and a burden.
More recently, many fled to escape the horrors of Maoism, or to seek a better life in America or another rich country.
Today the Hawkesbury River valley is home to those wanting to escape a busy, urban life, as well as legions of tourists.
Yet the progressive economic policy-making coming out of Washington today rests on the futile attempt to escape the corporate cycle of life that lies at the heart of capitalism.
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They wish to escape the pressures of real life.
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The bars that remained, hidden away from public view, were dingy dens of sorrow frequented by hardcore drinkers eager to escape the troubles of everyday life with little care for their surroundings.
And some people are self-absorbed, lack personal goals, associate with the wrong crowd in the wrong places, or constantly blame others for failing to get ahead in life, rather than taking the right steps to escape from this context.
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His theory is people need to rewire their brains to achieve the change necessary to escape the repetitive habits of slum life.
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That might make you want to change yourself or try to escape yourself, which later in life looks like drinking, drugs, over-exercising or eating.
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Investigators initially operated under the theory that the dean's list student was troubled and had decided to escape from the demands of her life for a while.
Pirate cosplay allows people to escape the banality of work-a-day life, he said.
Is a whole-life insurance policy a better way to escape the estate tax than making gifts every year to your descendants?
And then ancestry.com says that President Obama may be related to the first documented African slave in pre-revolutionary America -- a guy named John Punch, who was an indentured servant, who was sentenced to a life of slavery after an unsuccessful escape attempt in pre-revolutionary Virginia.
Its strong sense of community and laid-back pace of life also make it an ideal place to escape.
When life on the farm becomes unbearable, folk escape to the nearest town.
This is not a how-to guide, but a call to legs: anyone can, and should, escape urban life and run, he writes.
It only serves about 30 people, but it's the beginning of efforts to deal with slavery's social impact -- by giving slaves job skills, an education, the tools to create a viable life if and when they escape from their masters.
Lacking any other means, Zindel looked to his mishpocheh his extended family to help his eldest son escape from Nazi oppression and get on in life.
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The book's description of the texture of village life will also help people to understand the subtleties that usually escape Western headlines about Darfur.
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With an escape this wild, the only thing endangered might be your domesticated day-to-day life.
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