All 9 Uses of
exile
in
Obasan
- Broke up our families, told us who we could see, where we could live, what we could do, what time we could leave our houses, censored our letters, exiled us for no crime.†
Chpt 7exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- In 1948, three years after our exile from our place of exile, I am twelve years old and Stephen is fifteen.†
Chpt 29
- In 1948, three years after our exile from our place of exile, I am twelve years old and Stephen is fifteen.†
Chpt 29
- Gen. G. R. Pearkes (PC Nanaimo) suggested there would be "crimes of revenge" if the exiles were permitted to return home now.†
Chpt 29
- The Orders-in-Council provide for the exile of Canadian citizens.
Chpt 39 *exile = forcing someone to live outside of their home country
- The power of exile has not been employed by civilized countries since the days of the Stuarts in England.†
Chpt 39
- So seriously was it then viewed that the Habeas Corpus Act makes it a serious offense for any official to exile a British subject.†
Chpt 39
- The Orders and the proposed exile of Canadian citizens constitute a violation of International Law and as Mr. Justice Kellock and Rand have stated, involves invasion of another's territory, and the violation of sovereign rights.†
Chpt 39
- The Congress of the United States has no power to exile citizens, and the British Parliament has not, even in the gravest emergency, found it necessary to assume such a power.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be