1.   This country has a long tradition of accepting political refugees.

2.   Germany proposed the adoption by the European Community countries of a quota system for accepting refugees.

3.   Although some countries have been reluctant to accept refugees from the current wave of turmoil in Kosovo, Turkey has opened its arms.

4.   Another is that the government consistently accepts fewer refugees each year than it says it will accept.

5.   As an open port in the early days of World War II, Shanghai was one of the few cities in the world to accept Jewish refugees from Europe.

6.   Accepting Kosovo refugees, she said, is also an obligation.

7.   Conscious of its Nazi past, Germany opened its arms when the Bosnian war began, accepting more refugees than Britain, France, and Belgium combined.

8.   Countries of origin often will not accept refugees back.

9.   Europe also agreed by treaty last year that refugees will be accepted by the country where they first arrive.

10.   Grayson was accepting more refugees Thursday night and was badly in need of food, clothing and other supplies.