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Refugee in sentence

1188 examples of Refugee in a sentence

He is a four-time world champion in Olympic weightlifting, political refugee, published poet, 62 years old.
(Jet engine accelerates) (Cheers) I'm going to speak to you about the global refugee crisis and my aim is to show you that this crisis is manageable, not unsolvable, but also show you that this is as much about us and who we are as it is a trial of the refugees on the front line.
It's a group of refugee children arriving in England in 1946 from Poland.
It's a real tragedy that the world's most famous refugee can't come to speak to you here today.
It shows the lifeless body of five-year-old Alan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee who died in the Mediterranean in 2015.
I met him in the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania.
He said to me, "I pray that my days do not end here in this refugee camp."
Her parents were Palestinian refugees living in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus.
She was born to refugee parents, and now she's a refugee herself in Lebanon.
In Lebanon, one in four people is a refugee, a quarter of the whole population.
I went to what was the world's largest refugee camp, in eastern Kenya.
That's why I say that this refugee crisis is a trend and not a blip.
But half of the world's refugee children of primary school age get no education at all, and three-quarters of secondary school age get no education at all.
What would you or I want if we were a refugee in a city?
So while it's reasonable to ask the question, it's not reasonable to say that refugee is another word for terrorist.
Do you remember at the beginning of the talk, I said I wanted to explain that the refugee crisis was manageable, not insoluble?
Tell yourself, this refugee crisis is manageable, not unsolvable, and each one of us has a personal responsibility to help make it so.
My father, too, was a refugee.
The vast majority remain in refugee camps, whose conditions cannot be defined as humane under anyone's definition.
But I am the daughter of a refugee.
I was eight years old when she took me to visit my first refugee camp.
A Syrian woman who I recently met at a refugee camp in Greece articulated it best, when she recalled the exact moment she realized she had to flee Aleppo.
My journey took a strange turn three years later, after I met a group of refugee kids playing soccer outside.
Every refugee family I have worked with has had some version of this.
So this patch of desert is seen in Mafraq, Jordan in 2011, the year the conflict started, and when we compare it to an image captured just this year in 2017, we see the construction of the Zaatari refugee camp.
It takes her one year, through refugee camp after refugee camp, to make her way to an airstrip where we can fly out of the country.
At every single refugee camp, she has to face off soldiers who want to take my elder brother Mark, who was nine, and make him a boy soldier.
This is an icon of National Geographic, an Afghan refugee taken by Steve McCurry.
That was six years ago, and since then, we've served 50,000 refugee medical visits.
And then, instead of taking that money home, I put it back into the refugee community as a business expense.
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