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  1. refugees

    A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.

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  1. Refugees

    "Refugees" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by Dennis Lehane from a story by Ed Burns & Dennis Lehane, and directed by Jim McKay, it originally aired on October 1, 2006.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Refugees

    Persons fleeing to a place of safety, especially those who flee to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution in their own country or habitual residence because of race, religion, or political belief. (Webster, 3d ed)

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    Rank popularity for the word 'refugees' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4638

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of refugees in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of refugees in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of refugees in a Sentence

  1. Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz:

    I understand that now we are not talking about 2,200 since a bigger number of refugees is coming and that this distribution will be reconsidered. A new declaration will have to be presented by Poland, we will be assessing our possibilities but we will approach the matter responsibly.

  2. De Maiziere:

    We will continue to fight for a European way out of the refugee crisis as long as it also promises to be successful in diminishing the number of refugees, however, should some countries try to unilaterally shift the collective problem onto the back of Germany, it would be unacceptable and would not be without consequences from our side in the long term.

  3. Gerhard Schindler:

    Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said. In Macedonia, where refugees reach before streaming into the former Yugoslavia, the government declared a state of emergency for the next year. Macedonia is considering building a fence on its border like Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic did Hungary, although it is not a long term solution, said Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Popovski In Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel initially announced the country would take in 800,000 refugees this year, the head of the BND, Gerhard Schindler, said the most immediate danger comes from jihadists who are already in Germany. Related ImageExpand / ContractWith Western Europe closing its doors, thousands of refugees are stranded along the path from Middle East misery. ( FoxNews.com) For the Jihadists, it is much easier to obtain a false or stolen passport and get on the plane. The real danger comes from Western Europe, jihadists returning to Germany and other European countries, once fought on the fronts of the Middle East.

  4. Nina Shea:

    They are raped, abducted into slavery and they are abducted for ransom. It is extremely dangerous, there is not a single Christian in the Jordanian camps for Syrian refugees.

  5. Wendy Sherman:

    United States have always welcomed refugees, even if sometimes The US refugee resettlement process takes a while to get here.

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