• His shunning of the rest for the more difficult shots demonstrated a confidence not normal for such an arena, while he went for pots where mere mortals would have sought safety sanctuary.
• The Waterford technique also provided this patient a place of refuge or sanctuary where she could retreat and find safety.
• Without foot patrols, drug dealers took sanctuary in these areas and set up shop.

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• Traditionally conservation has focused on national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests, but this project goes to show that by co-opting private land owners, much can be achieved.
• Regions once preserved as national parks, sanctuaries, and havens for wildlife have no laws, regulations, or societal values to protect them.
• Wildlife sanctuaries and national parks are cornerstones of bio-diversity conservation of the country and will remain so in future, unless danger of the arrogant ‘only for humans’ view.

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• In Jerusalem the sanctuary of the temple was called the Holy Place and was between the court and the Holy of Holies.
• It was replaced by the older form, shrine Shinto, the worship of kami in shrines or sanctuaries, tended by priests.
• The sense of place as a point of access to and focus for the sacred informs Pausanias's description of the Greek world, with its enumeration of cities and sanctuaries, their sacred shrines and associated rituals.

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