Sentences with word «fled»

Li, a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, fled to Hong Kong with his family in 1940 during the Sino - Japanese War.

But after clashing with the Kremlin over censorship and struggling with Putin loyalists over control of the site, the brothers left the company in 2013 and fled to Buffalo, New York, to start Telegram.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

He has a case built with non-sequiturs (one example of the horror of FTTs is that traders fled a tax imposed by Sweden in the 1980s and instead did their trades in London, which also had a tax).

But his course changed when he was transferred from federal custody to San Francisco County Jail in March 2015 on an old warrant alleging he fled marijuana charges in 1995.

If DirecTV gained subscribers that fled the rival pay - TV company, as the government argues it will, AT&T might pare its losses to $ 195 billion.

The S&P 500 has climbed more than 4 percent this year, but investors have fled stocks for short periods of time after events like Britain's vote to leave the European Union — the so - called Brexit.

Growing up disadvantaged in Braintree, Mass., the daughter of Chinese - Vietnamese immigrant parents who fled their native country in refugee boats, your mom viewed school as a means of bettering herself.

Puerto Rico had an estimated 500,000 stray dogs before the hurricane — and since the storm, it's only gotten worse as people have fled the island.

Lee Shau Kee fled China for Hong Kong before the Communist takeover in 1948, working in commodities like gold and currency exchange before founding Henderson Land Development in 1973.

Trump took particular issue with the idea that people who'd fled to the U.S. after disasters hit their homes in places such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti would be allowed to stay as part of the deal, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly describe the discussion.

Police officers arrived on the scene minutes later as YouTube employees fled the building.

The United Nations says that an estimated 5 million Syrians have fled the country and 6 million have been internally displaced as a result of the Syrian conflict and crisis, which dates back to 2011.

The Aviation Security Service (Avsec) told Radio NZ that the dog, who was six months away from graduating as an explosives detector dog, fled his handler when he was trying to load him into a wagon.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

The nation is safer, prompting residents who fled to return, with their currency.

«Most of the terrorists have already fled with tails between their legs.

Morell fled the country, and then on April 30, 1945, Hitler killed himself.

Much of the middle - class and scores of businesses also have fled the city, taking their tax dollars with them.

Detroit's property values fell, tax revenue dropped, police couldn't control a growing murder rate, and many middle - class blacks fled the city for safer suburbs with better schools.

The situation in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine, where hundreds of thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims have fled for neighbouring Bangladesh after a military crackdown, is one of the biggest challenges facing the group.

The gunman apparently fled.

More than 150,000 people fled Afrin in recent days, the Syrian Observatory said, as Turkey pressed on with its campaign despite a U.N. Security Council call for a 30 - day ceasefire across Syria.

Sicker people continued to buy insurance even as prices grew, and more and more healthy people fled.

In fact, if nothing else, you could say that the story of Andy Grove — a busboy who fled a life lived under Fascists, Nazis, and Communists to get an education at an institution free to all, including refugees, then taking that knowledge and using it to help invent an entire industry — illustrates exactly what makes America great.

Peter Mann, 46, and his wife, Jo Ann, 40, were part of a wave of Romanian immigrants who fled Communist tyranny in the late 1970s and early 1980s, settling in Portland, Oreg., and adapting to American ways.

He Was 12 When He Fled the Iranian Revolution.

An outspoken critic of Putin, Litvinenko fled Russia for Britain six years to the day before he was poisoned.

Rumaysah who was formerly known as Siddhartha Dhar, is a former bouncy castle salesman who was open about his Islamist views before he fled to Syria.

Chaudhry cited Pakistan's longstanding complaints that its efforts have been unappreciated, claiming that most leaders of the Haqqani network — which the U.S. hopes to eradicate — have fled to Afghanistan.

Many U.S. Virgin Islands residents fled to shelters around midday Tuesday.

Instead of waiting around for his report card, he fled and spent the summer hiding the news from his parents.

Under his regime, many Republican figures fled the country, and those who stayed were tried by military tribunals.

BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani Tweeted this video, which cuts between the eyes of the masked terrorist shown in the ISIS propaganda and Abu Rumaysah, a British Citizen who fled to Syria after being released on bail while under investigation for allegedly encouraging terrorism.

The backlash from users was mighty, but in the long run, few of them actually fled.

These numbers indicate that as the labor market improves, more folks are re-joining a labor market that they fled because they thought there simply weren't jobs for them.

They said Garcia Zarate then threw the weapon into the bay and fled the scene.

He then fled to Namibia, where he bought a $ 450,000 home at a golf resort and enrolled his children in school.

Hundreds of thousands of residents had already fled the area in the years and months preceding April 7, but tens of thousands stayed.

Vernon, who was born Lilli Menasche in Leipzig, Germany in 1927, fled the Nazi occupation with her family in 1933.

After a shooting that left several people wounded at the southern edge of Tepito — a rough neighborhood known as a bastion of the Sante Muerte faith — 200 police officers were dispatched, shutting down streets and searching alleys and buildings in pursuit of suspects who fled the scene.

At the same time, advertisers fled.

A former household assistant to Goldman co-president David Solomon admitted to taking $ 1.2 million of rare wine but then fled to Rome, an FBI agent testified on Wednesday.

Inside one of the fridges, black body bags stacked to the side contain the remains of civilians who were methodically gunned down by Islamic State snipers behind a soft - drinks factory as they fled toward Iraqi security forces in June.

Jolie's film is based on the memoirs of human rights activist Loung Ung, who fled her childhood home in Cambodia during a deadly four - year Communist regime, known as the Khmer Rouge years.

In the past week, more than 30,000 people have fled Aleppo, running in the face of militias loyal to the Syrian government.

As we learned when several big - name advertisers fled YouTube after learning some of their ads were appearing next to extremist videos, YouTube moved quickly to make changes.

The former personal assistant to Goldman Sachs co-president David Solomon fled to Rome in November 2016, one day after privately admitting he took $ 1.2 million worth of rare wine from the executive's collection.

One of the two investors who installed him had fled.

Petrov is unlikely to face a trial — he fled to Russia when his villa on the Spanish island of Majorca was raided by the police in 2008, and Russia does not extradite its citizens.