1.   But inconsistent rulings in recent cases here and in Canada show that each woman seeking asylum on grounds of gender-based persecution must fight the battle anew.

2.   He also accused American officials of detaining those seeking asylum from political persecution in other countries without judicial review and sometimes in the same lockups as criminals.

3.   He was apparently only a month away from returning home when he appeared at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Friday seeking asylum, American officials said.

4.   However much they may welcome those seeking asylum, people here are suspicious of anyone foreign.

5.   The island, a U.S. territory covered by American immigration laws, attracts many Chinese seeking asylum, often for fraudulent or flimsy reasons.

6.   Their lawyers had argued before the judge that Elian had been denied the due process granted to other people who come to the United States seeking asylum.

7.   Then there is the alien seeking asylum after experiencing persecution in his own land.

8.   Those seeking asylum routinely destroy all their documents, so the dead are thought to have had no identification on them.

9.   A West African seeking asylum in the United States was transferred Wednesday to a youth home after the government abandoned its contention that he is an adult.

10.   Also Tuesday, another four East Timorese sneaked into the Spanish Embassy seeking asylum.