This year alone they have caused some 300, 000 people to seek refuge in the cities, according to human-rights workers.
The blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng also fled house arrest to seek refuge in the US embassy, provoking a diplomatic crisis.
His logic: Despite the euro rally this year, nervous investors will continue to seek refuge in the relative safety of the U.S. dollar.
In the north, however, many Kurds left towns to seek refuge in the countryside when the fighting started, although they now seem to be going home.
Or at parties, where the social strain of a couple being "on display" leads one spouse to seek refuge in the punch bowl, the other in the corner.
While I was an intrepid traveler, I'm embarrassed to say that I was also one of those people the ones who, no matter where they are in the world, seek refuge in familiar foods.
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The group includes some of the biggest companies to seek refuge in Chapter 11 in recent years home builder Tousa Inc.
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The implications were recognised by de Gaulle: if France were to be a power to be reckoned with in a world now defined by the cold war, it had to rid itself of the Algerian millstone whatever the objections of the settlers who would then have to seek refuge in France.
The connection helped Mr Basra and his group to seek refuge in Afghanistan.
Club goers can party into the early hours of the morning in the West End and Shoreditch clubs, while outdoor enthusiasts seek refuge on Hampstead Heath, cycle around Richmond Park, stroll along the Thames or take advantage of London's many parks.
Too many still seek refuge in ignorance and denial that was so memorably displayed by U.S. officials after the Fort Hood shooting in 2009.
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The Rohingya have been fleeing persecution of the hard-line military regime in Myanmar, formerly Burma, for years and often seek refuge in Malaysia.
The ensuing sense of insecurity, plus a deep economic recession, has driven Colombians to seek refuge abroad in record numbers.
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