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  • s  voluntarily assumed or endured
    self-imposed exile

  • After Benazir and her children went into self-imposed exile in the late 1990s, the family split their time between London and Dubai, where Bilawal attended the Rashid School for .
  • That steely resolve took him from self-imposed and prosperous exile in Britain in 1935 at the age of 58 to leadership of a new country 12 years later.
  • He fled Ireland into self-imposed exile late in 1904, taking with him Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway who was working as a hotel chambermaid in Dublin when Joyce met her .
News & Articles

  • MOVIE REVIEW: Superman: the man, the hero — and the genre
    By Roberto Perez-Franco STAFF WRITER Man of Steel is a Superman movie. I don’t mean just with regards to its subject, but as a definition of the genre. And, even though it is a good movie, the self-imposed constraints it followed to fall square within that genre make it a good-enough movie, when it could have been — or at least I was hoping it would be — a great movie. The plot of the movie ...
    June 14, 2013 - The Tech
  • Movie review: 'The Wall' makes isolation work
    A woman finds herself inexplicably cut off from civilization in Julian Roman Pölser's absorbing allegorical tale. "The Wall" is a remarkably involving film, especially given its brave, self-imposed limitations. Writer-director Julian Roman Pölser, working with the superb Martina Gedeck ("The Lives of Others") — in effect, the movie's sole actor — has crafted a gripping tale of survival, loss ...
    June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
  • Randy Peterson: Why NCAA ruling could bode well for Iowa State
    Iowa State's self-imposed penalties might be tough enough if the NCAA's penalties handed down last week for Mississippi State's more severe NCAA violations are an indicator. Earlier coverage, and read Iowa State's entire 590-page report April 2 video: Randy Peterson talks about Iowa State's NCAA violations
    June 10, 2013 - The Des Moines Register
Quotes

  • Condoleezza Rice in Reuters India
    Our strategic goal now is to make it clear to Russia's leaders that their choices are putting Russia on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation and international irrelevance,Rice said.
  • Louise Arbour in Guardian Unlimited
    The Myanmar authorities should no longer expect that their self-imposed isolation will shield them from accountability,said Louise Arbour, UN high commissioner for human rights.
  • Olusegun Obasanjo in San Francisco Chronicle
    What has happened in the last 14 days has not made me happy,Obasanjo said, adding, "If there is anything that will make you make a move against a self-imposed cease-fire by you, you should let me know. When I finished my first round of...

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