fleeing

Jonah thought in fleeing from the land of Israel, where Jehovah was peculiarly present, that he should escape from Jehovah's prophecy-inspiring influence.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

This he mentions, not only as condemning himself for his folly, in fleeing from the presence of this God, but as designing to bring these mariners from the worship and service of their many gods to the knowledge and obedience of the one only living and true God.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Their ancestors shall be ashamed of their cowardice, in fleeing from the first onset (v. 12), or, Your mother, Babylon itself, the mother-city, shall be confounded, when she sees herself deserted by those that should have been her guards.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Then the law enforcement officers were in a position to say, OK, he is what we call a fleeing dangerous felon and that's when he can be engage.

CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2008 2008

He now begins to justify himself in fleeing from the presence of the Lord, when he was first ordered to go to Nineveh, for which he had before, with good reason, condemned himself: "Lord," said he, "was not this my saying when I was in my own country?

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Some cases result in large settlements, such as the $1.2 million awarded to a couple whose two children were killed by a driver fleeing from a police cruiser on Florida Avenue NE.

From 2007 to 2009, D.C. paid more than $50 million in legal settlements Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Staff Writer 2010

Some cases result in large settlements, such as the $1.2 million awarded to a couple whose two children were killed by a driver fleeing from a police cruiser on Florida Avenue NE.

From 2007 to 2009, D.C. paid more than $50 million in legal settlements Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Staff Writer 2010

In the Dominican Republic, with a per capita of US$3,247 and 9.0 million people we have one million+ illegal Haitian immigrants fleeing from a $415 per capita and 9.0 million people.

Borjas, Wages, and Immigration: The Complete Story, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I've seen too many wounded children, and too many desperate civilians fleeing from the fighting.

National Council of Churches 2010

Some cases result in large settlements, such as the $1.2 million awarded to a couple whose two children were killed by a driver fleeing from a police cruiser on Florida Avenue NE.

D.C.'s other thriving industry: Lawsuits Paul Schwartzman 2010