Croatia's escape from Yugoslavia, though, has proved far more complicated.

In most cases, physical escape proves easy enough, but Ms. Phillips's characters remain haunted by memories of their youth.

His lucky escape proved to be only a temporary reprieve, as Swanson was killed a year later while attempting to qualify for a midget car race.

In the heat of this flight, she could not have known how significant the escape would prove to be.

I would never have believed our escape could prove so easy.

Lisa's great escape to meet her new flame in Tuscany proves unforgettable - for all manner of reasons.

But escape proved not that easy.

The girl's mother claimed Coney Hill wasn't secure enough, and now believes the escape has proved her right.

But his escape proves only another form of slavery, as he finds his great natural intelligence bought and sold as a commodity by the Companies.

But the exercise of this ability is a very costly one in bodily energy, and cannot be used wildly, as the escape from Acra proved.