| 单词 | sanctuary city |
| 释义 | > as lemmassanctuary city sanctuary city n. (a) = city of refuge (also†refute) n. at city n. Phrases 2 (now historical); (b) North American a city regarded as offering a degree of protection to illegal immigrants, in particular by having policies in place to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. ΚΠ 1845 M. F. Tupper Proverbial Philos. 2nd Ser. 19 There is the Sanctuary-city, mocking at the wrath of thine Avenger. 1881 R. Winterbotham Numbers (ed. 2) 453 Certain cities were made sanctuary cities (Exod. xxi. 13). 1943 Classical Rev. 57 40/1 The Persian Gulf, where sanctuary-cities and caravan-cities remained the permanent centres of culture. 1985 Cumberland (Maryland) News 8 Apr. 2/3 (heading) Cambridge may become sanctuary city. 1993 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 141 1457 Takoma Park..which recently enacted noncitizen voting, was only following up on its earlier decision to make itself a sanctuary city. 2017 East Bay (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 6 May Donald Trump's immigration policies have drawn numerous protests in San Francisco, a sanctuary city that has for decades offered undocumented immigrants protections from U.S. immigration authorities. < as lemmas |
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