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How to use the word Escape in a Sentence? Page #12

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All roads were closed off, as if we are enemies of the government, the government was supposed to reward us and help us because we managed to escape from Daesh( Islamic State).

Saad Jaber

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government was supposed to reward us and help us because we managed to escape from Daesh( Islamic State), it's not our fault that the government is weak and unable to defend us.

Saad Jaber

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The first 72 hours (after the escape) are extraordinarily important here, and if they don't get their hands on him then, I don't know, we may never see this guy again.

Mike Braun

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's impossible to escape from that prison without total complicity from the authorities and/or guards.

Elena Azaola

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Manas really is involved in trafficking, he won’t escape it and will have to accept the truth.

Pakkapon Sirirat

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Maybe there's no way to escape, i think most of them are not educated, they are illiterate people, and they don't know how they can escape from this situation.

Raffaele Petralla

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To make a dry run and ... have the ability to escape, and then go back in, it is a little baffling.

David Sweat

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's certainly no plea bargain that we could put out there, the Department of Corrections obviously wants information; they want answers as well relative to how this escape occurred. So on that end, whatever benefit that may be for David Sweat, only the time will tell.

Andrew Wylie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They will remember what we do, yet, even as this tragedy unfolds, some of the countries most able to help are shutting their gates to people seeking asylum. Borders are closing, pushbacks are increasing, and hostility is rising. Avenues for legitimate escape are fading away.

Antonio Guterres

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Capturing these killers and returning them to state custody remains our top priority, however, it's critically important to examine the circumstances that enabled these inmates to escape in the first place.

Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Everybody in town here always had in the back of their mind that an escape could happen, but no one ever thought it would, that place is a fortress.

David Benjamin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They invest a lot of time and effort in planning their escape, they don't think through what they'll do when they get out.

Martin Horn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Bullying is comparable to a scenario for a caged animal, the classroom is a place where you're with people you didn't choose to be with, and you can't escape them if something negative happens.

Dieter Wolke

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This tendency to escape into safe havens out of Nigeria is becoming very remote. The likelihood of them surviving this assault and coming back is low.

Chris Olukolade

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That was an incredibly tough scene, as Rollo I had to pretend to be drunk, so you’re not fighting at your best ability. Rollo has lost everything and it’s a form of self-harm. He wants to experience physical pain to escape his emotional pain.

Clive Standen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Since they don't know the mountains, you need to provide them with equipment, you need to hold them with rope, give them crampons so they can work well and as precisely as possible, so that no evidence, no body part could escape their vigilance.

Yves Naffrechoux

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He was put through a four-year ordeal while U.S. nationals committing the object crime of tax evasion were allowed to escape with a fine, without even a slap on the wrist.

Robert Henoch

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Commission feels it's time to establish fiscal equity, so that companies pay what they owe, their fair share to the right place, there will be no escape clause and no room for interpretation on these requirements. It will be simple. It's automatic.

European Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The country is in a position like that of Sisyphus — a man condemned to roll a boulder to the top of a hill, only to see it roll down again, we risk condemning an entire generation to a future without hope. To avoid that, what we ask from our eurozone partners is to treat Greece as an equal and help us escape from this Sisyphean trap.

Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are confronted with an unprecedented increase in people embarking on dangerous journeys, to escape wars.

Dimitris Avramopoulos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The authorities are holding the families of North Korean workers so workers cannot escape the work site or complain about the conditions.

Ahn Myeong Chul

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

By Boko Haram pledging to the Islamic State, Shekau has secured a safe haven for Boko Haram's leadership. Even if the current Nigerian offensives are to succeed, a temporary escape could be made to another IS stronghold from where Boko Haram's life cycle can be maintained irrespective of distance.

Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Poverty can put you in a difficult state of mind, and a difficult state of mind can make it more difficult to escape poverty, this can be a self-reinforcing vicious cycle.

Jamele Rigolini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am deeply sorry for many things I have done. However, it is my hope that revealing the truth will lead to a bright, dope-free future for the sport I love, in the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping 'enforcers' have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth.

Lance Armstrong

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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