Even before we were a nation, we were a sanctuary for Jews seeking to live without the specter of violence or exile.
As a largely devout Muslim nation, Turkey never ceased to produce charismatic religious leaders, but they had to adapt to the realities of a secular republic or else face prison or exile.
Influential tycoons such as Boris Berezovsky, currently gobbling up the country's aluminium industry, may yet find themselves in court or in exile.
Decades of war destroyed many sporting stadiums and pushed athletes into exile or combat.
"Faced with the choice of exile or escape, " she fled her master and found refuge in Philadelphia.
Letting rooms is the main way to earn dollars for those without relations in exile or the means to start a business.
The Dutch came to monarchy very late, in 1815, just as much of Europe was sending its crowned heads to exile or the guillotine.
This is particularly evident in games like Diablo III or Path of Exile, with starting characters that are quite literally identical from one player to the next, and gear that never really does enough to set them apart.
It wants to exile them or put them on trial while the Palestinians say that they should decide their fate.
Writers in particular seemed to thrive in exile, real or self-imposed.
These were not people sitting on the sidelines, or idling their time away in exile.
One of them is being forced into exile -- taking a ride on the Reading or perhaps left to shuffle along the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey, muttering about the glory days.
The silent dignity of exile may be a subject for memoir, perhaps, or for poetry, but, to judge from this tempered, overrefined movie, it requires an explosion or two to make it a subject for drama.
Exile and displacement, whether within one's homeland, or outside, may be painful, but it can also inspire fine literature.
One of the conditions of his exile was that Taylor not meddle in Liberia's affairs or in politics in West Africa, but that is precisely what many claim Charles Taylor is now doing.
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Chavez has also used his power to intimidate the opposition, forcing some opposition leaders into exile and physically undermining the everyday work of locally elected opposition officials or by taking away functions they were supposed to perform.
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We may not be shedding any tears for Lefty any more than we feel for Gerard Depardieu, who recently left France for Russia to escape taxes, or for the Rolling Stones, who many moons ago left England and recorded Exile on Main Street from France.
Zubaydi, who until recently had lived in exile in Britain, told about 1, 500 civil servants that if they were police officers or electrical plant workers they should return to their jobs.
As a Scouser in exile, I cannot picture a world where Liverpool would tolerate being ordered around by Manchester or vice versa.
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