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Of course, bilateral tensions also reflect long-term disagreements that go beyond territorial disputes, such as China’s “all-weather” alliance with Pakistan, and India’s hospitality toward the Dalai Lama, to whom it granted
refuge
when he fled Tibet in 1959.
All are important reasons why people seek
refuge
far from home.
The contrast was reminiscent of the early 2000s, when disillusioned transatlanticists took
refuge
in The West Wing, wherein the cerebral character of President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen) stood in stark contrast to George W. Bush and his administration’s disingenuous brutality.
All the modesty of the family had taken
refuge
in the daily bath, for which the young girl now went upstairs alone, while the men bathed below one after the other.
But an unforeseen drama interrupted him: Poland, the big tame rabbit, which had ventured outside, came bounding back, fleeing from the stones of a band of trammers; and in her terror, with fallen ears and raised tail, she took
refuge
against his legs, scratching and imploring him to take her up.
He, always restrained, and taking
refuge
in the deceptive coldness of a man of business, was torn by desire for this creature, one of those late desires which are so violent and which increase with age.
And as she took
refuge
in a corner he turned on her mother.
Almost a hundred, who had set out before daylight, were taking
refuge
beneath the forest beeches, waiting for the others.
When he came back he found his aunt and the young girls distracted, and ready to follow the peasant-woman, who proposed that they should take
refuge
in her house.
At every crisis of his existence, he took
refuge
in the strict execution of the orders he had received; in the military discipline in which he lived he found his small share of happiness.
Meanwhile Maigrat, who had left the hall of the manager's house, had at first taken
refuge
in the kitchen; but, hearing nothing there, he imagined some abominable attempt against his shop, and came up again to hide behind the pump outside, when he distinctly heard the cracking of the door and shouts of pillage in which his own name was mixed.
It was there that he was in hiding; no one believed him so near; the quiet audacity of that refuge, in the very mine, in that abandoned passage of the old pit, had baffled search.
His eyes were moist, as in this cry there broke out the secret desire of the vanquished, the
refuge
in which he desired to lose his torment for ever.
Négrel and Dansaert, above, were shouting to the captain to come in and take
refuge
with them.
Besides, he dreamed of a prison as of a
refuge
in the midst of the torment of his defeat; but they did not trouble him, and he dragged on his wretched hours, not knowing how to weary out his body.
He resigned himself, and took
refuge
at the other end of the parlour, while the innkeeper filled up the doorway with his broad shoulders.
The first problem which he proposed to himself was to decide where they could have taken
refuge.
The passage sloped up, and they took
refuge
at the end.
Gone are the days when Jonahs took
refuge
in the bellies of whales!
I swiftly hoisted myself to the summit of this half-submerged creature or object that was serving as our
refuge.
I could put you back on the platform of this ship that has served as your
refuge.
Hunted and trapped by fishermen, this valuable carnivore has become extremely rare, and it takes
refuge
chiefly in the northernmost parts of the Pacific, where in all likelihood its species will soon be facing extinction.
For Conseil, the captain was still a misunderstood genius who, tired of the world's deceptions, had been driven to take
refuge
in this inaccessible environment where he was free to follow his instincts.
When they were captured, some hawksbills were still asleep inside their carapaces, a
refuge
from other marine animals.
France and England aren't far off, and there we'll easily find
refuge.
Along the coasts of your continents or islands, show me any offshore mooring that can equal this safe
refuge
for withstanding the fury of hurricanes."
But what's the purpose of this
refuge?
It's meant to be a
refuge
for people like its commander, people who have severed all ties with the shore."
This encounter didn't surprise me, because I knew these animals were being hunted so relentlessly that they took
refuge
in the ocean basins of the high latitudes.
The Antarctic seas serve as a
refuge
for an extremely large number of migratory fish that flee from storms in the subpolar zones, in truth only to slide down the gullets of porpoises and seals.
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