Sanctuary
in sentence
116 examples of Sanctuary in a sentence
Besides the freezing temperatures and
sanctuary
to be found only in caves, there is a third inhabitant, the beautiful and so sexy Zarabeth (Mariette Hartley).
A gun-toting evil murderer invades the hotel
sanctuary
of the survivors and puts moves on Crowley (who has fallen in love with Denning after knowing him for only a few hours).
The final cliché which we see in a lot of movies where natives play a predominant role is that the native lifestyle is portrayed as a
sanctuary
that sin has never entered.
Everyone's favourite surgically-separated Siamese-twins, Duane (Kevin Van Hentenryck) and Belial, return for more freakish fun in Basket Case 2, in which the brothers escape from hospital (after their near fatal fall in the first film) and find
sanctuary
at the home of 'Granny Ruth' (Annie Ross), who runs a haven for the physically deformed.
It's no wonder after a history of playing heavies in many 1950's mediocre films that he finally escaped to the
sanctuary
of television, and found a much needed success in either a courtroom ("Perry Mason") or a wheelchair ("Ironside").
Arty but stilted adaptation of Frances Burnett's 1911 novel about a young orphaned girl who comes to stay with her chilly relatives, eventually taking over their rotting garden and transforming it into a
sanctuary.
Bugs is looking for a
"sanctuary"
as hunters are firing all around him.
Relations suffered further from Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, its provision of
sanctuary
and support to the Taliban, and its willingness to extend hospitality to some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists, including Osama bin Laden.
Strangelove,” offered a nostrils-bared defense of “an ability to allow no adversary to have
sanctuary
anywhere in the world.”
Pakistan’s western reaches are now a
sanctuary
for militias and terrorists that are moving in and out of Afghanistan.
Neighboring Turkey was probably the first outside country to support the rebellion on the ground, giving
sanctuary
to rebel forces along its border with Syria.
Even as Americans exult over bin Laden’s killing, the US government must recognize that its failed policy on Pakistan has inadvertently made that country the world’s main terrorist
sanctuary.
Sovereignty is no longer a
sanctuary.
As Zimmer wrote in the University of Chicago Magazine in 2016, “Universities cannot be viewed as a
sanctuary
for comfort but rather as a crucible for confronting ideas.”
But the new
sanctuary
in the Pacific – with an area equivalent in size to Texas, California, Montana, and Arizona combined – could be the largest such zone in the world.
The US went into Afghanistan in October 2001 to oust the Taliban regime, which had provided Bin Laden and Al Qaeda with a
sanctuary
and operational base.
If Saddam were granted
sanctuary
in a country such as Belarus or Libya, he would probably remain safe from prosecution, but only as long as he never leaves.
That means protecting and defending Daoud (to take just one current example), a French-language writer of Muslim origin who suggested that those seeking
sanctuary
in Europe would do well to learn to appreciate European values.
The Jalaluddin Haqqani group, which was allowed to base itself in a
sanctuary
in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal agency, was one such ally that Pakistan’s government thought could be used to further its interests in Afghanistan.
For those who care about animals, the story has a happy ending: The steer was captured and taken to a sanctuary, where he will live out the remainder of his natural life.
Pakistan has the world’s fastest-growing nuclear arsenal, is home to some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists (including, for a time, Osama bin Laden), and, as Trump suggested, provides
sanctuary
to the Taliban, who are doing all they can to destabilize Afghanistan.
The plot then takes another turn when Caesar becomes too big and aggressive to live in a human home, and is taken to what is supposed to be a primate sanctuary, but is in fact a dumping ground for unwanted apes, run by humans who display cruelty to the captive animals.
Nim suffered various other vicissitudes – and narrowly escaped being infected with hepatitis as part of a medical experiment – until he was eventually released to an animal sanctuary, where he died in 2000.
More than 655,000 people, some two-thirds of Myanmar’s total Rohingya population, have fled to Bangladesh seeking
sanctuary
from the killing, rape, burning, and looting in Rakhine State.
Al Qaeda lost its base in Afghanistan when the Taliban government that had provided it
sanctuary
was ousted from power.
Pakistan remains a
sanctuary
for Al Qaeda and some of the world’s other most dangerous terrorists.
Even though the US offered $2 billion of assistance to the military to be disbursed over a period of 3-5 years, Kayani has resisted American pressure to move against the Taliban’s
sanctuary
in North Waziristan, used to stage operations against US and NATO troops in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Pakistan also provides
sanctuary
to the Afghan Taliban’s chief, Mullah Mohammad Omar (and also harbors a well-known international fugitive, the Indian organized crime boss Dawood Ibrahim).
And then, in mid-2014, he allowed Iraqi elements of the Islamic State to find
sanctuary
in eastern Syria.
Hollande in MaliPARIS – While hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Paris against the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children, French troops were arriving in Mali to stop a coalition of Islamist and rebel forces from taking control of its capital, Bamako, and creating in the Sahel a
sanctuary
for terrorists.
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