11.   Critics of the fee had argued that many applicants, fleeing persecution abroad, would have difficulty paying it.

12.   Fleeing persecution, they traveled in wagon trains to the edge of the Great Salt Lake and set up a homeland.

13.   He said they are often fleeing persecution in their home countries and are unlikely to be dissuaded by the prospect of detention in the United States.

14.   He was born in Berlin to an Armenian family that had fled the persecution of Armenians after World War I.

15.   Immigration advocates welcomed proposed changes aimed at ensuring that people fleeing persecution are not denied a chance for asylum when stopped at entry points to the United States.

16.   Most Jewish communities hold that they were formed by families who fled persecution or were invited to settle by local kings.

17.   Most refugees are not economic migrants, but political refugees fleeing persecution from such countries as Algeria and Iraq.

18.   One curious provision would change the rules of asylum and refugee applications in America to insure that people who say they are fleeing religious persecution would get a hearing.

19.   Particularly when those seeking entry are fleeing persecution, our ability to be a moral compass in this complex world is dramatically impacted by how we respond.

20.   Settled nearly three centuries ago by a handful of pioneer families fleeing religious persecution in their native Germany, Thurmont is no stranger to intractable conflict.