Sentence examples for a distant detention from inspiring English sources

Then followed a serene procession of coaches towards a distant detention camp in north-west Turkey, as watching residents expressed relief that no refugees would be settled in their pretty seaside town.

Several detainees said the leaders were punished with isolation or were transferred to distant detention centers.

The problem only gets worse when immigrants are sent to distant detention centers in places like Texas or Louisiana, as happens to nearly two-thirds of those taken into immigration custody in New York.

Despite assurances that they would curb the practice of transferring detained immigrants to distant detention centers around the country, federal immigration officials continue to move hundreds of thousands of people a year, impeding the detainees' access to lawyers and extending their time in custody, a human rights organization said in a report released on Tuesday.

If I were running an illegal detention center in a distant no man's land where prisoners could be held indefinitely and without trial, and where torture and deprivation are common tools of interrogation, I, too, would not want detainees to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky's masterpiece Crime and Punishment.

If I were running an illegal detention centre in a distant no man's land where prisoners could be held indefinitely and without trial, and where torture and deprivation are common tools of interrogation, I, too, would not want detainees to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky's masterpiece Crime and Punishment.

A distant foghorn blows.

A distant siren cried.

"Microsoft is a distant, distant no.

That seems a distant prospect.

Conservatives a distant second.