Sentences with phrase «internal exile»
The phrase "internal exile" refers to a situation where a person is forced to live in a certain area or place within their own country, usually against their will. It is like being banished or restricted to a specific location within your country, rather than being allowed to move freely throughout the country. Full definition
Rachel Reeves, Labour MP for Leeds West, and in internal exile from the Corbyn Shadow Cabinet, has been fascinated by the life and political career of one of her Leeds predecessors, the redoubtable Alice Bacon.
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De Keyser and Bishop seem to have chosen a kind of internal exile as painters, or maybe a better metaphor is that of the mole, in the espionage sense of the word: for decades quietly undermining the system they belong to with hardly anyone noticing.
However, Nadarkhani and Omidi have also been sentenced to two years internal exile in areas far away from their families.
He was succeeded in 1944 by Joseph Slipyi who was in prison and internal exile for thirty - nine years, accused of supporting «the fascist form of Christianity and a bastion of reaction.»
It is common to distinguish between internal exile, i.e., forced resettlement within the country of residence, and external exile, deportation outside the country of residence.
Israel lived in internal exile.
But the smearing of George Bell has left me an internal exile.
Due to the infuence of his chief defender Cardinal Barberini, he was allowed to live in «internal exile» in his own villa.
Britain is set to reintroduce «internal exile», a hallmark of the world's most oppressive regimes, in the wake of the increased security threat from terrorism — despite parliamentarians» deep discomfort about the move.
It is to be hoped that after the 6 months review we will see an end not just to this unnecessarily authoritarian law, but also to control orders and their regime of house arrest, internal exile, and secret courts, all of which are an anathema of British standards of justice.»
Now Panahi again appears in Taxi, his third letter from internal exile, and the winner of this year's Golden Bear in Berlin.
Thus the reader enters into the modern contradictions of the Arctic — walrus meat and convenience food, midnight sun and 24 - hour satellite TV, dog teams and diamond mines — and into the heart of Victoria's internal exile.
Neither could have worked anywhere else: while pop art — Mitchell derided it as «pop, slop and plop» — and conceptualism ruled New York, Mitchell in France and Twombly in Italy alone held up the American abstract expressionist aesthetic in a sort of internal exile.