Even though travel to Poland, for example, involves considerable difficulties for East Germans, several hundred have been able to seek refuge in the West German embassy in Warsaw. (BNCI)
Sadly, Maastricht represents the third occasion in half a century on which Britain has been given the chance to face its European future and, I regret to say, the third occasion in that time on which we have chosen to seek refuge in the past. (BNCI)
In 1602 legal troubles stemming from his separation and the illness of one of his children caused him to seek refuge in Amsterdam, where he became a successful merchant and innkeeper. (BNCI)