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He warned that the ruling "gravely undermined" the country's "ability to detain enemy combatants for the duration of hostilities worldwide".

It would also strengthen the authorities' ability to detain terrorism suspects, although it would not provide the indefinite detention the administration originally sought.

The C.I.A. decided not to share any of that vital information with the F.B.I., which had the ability to detain these men before 9/11.

The legislation, which passed by a wide margin, broadened the government's ability to detain and deport legal immigrants, even though immigrants had nothing to do with the bombing.

The lawsuit is believed to be the first where illegal immigrants are challenging the legality of armed civilian patrols and their ability to detain people.

They have leveraged their ability to detain or try activists, dissidents, reformists, and foreigners in order to embarrass or discredit the President.

New rules going into effect later this year will give the F.D.A. a complete list of domestic and foreign firms bringing foods to the American market, advance notice of imported food shipments and greatly enhanced abilities to detain problem foods and trace their origin.

There is always something puzzling about the extreme distrust that Republicans of this strain profess to have in the government's ability to get anything right involving money and their headlong grant of the power to detain, torture, and kill.

This new system, he wrote, would give the government the "ability to temporarily detain a dangerous individual," including in situations where "a criminal trial has failed".

The U.S. will likely seek to maintain its ability to indefinitely detain suspected combatants with loose protections against prisoner abuse, so long as its war on terror continues.

Last week, a bipartisan Senate vote passed the Levin/McCain bill, which extends the United States' ability to indefinitely detain American citizens for "terrorism" charges so amorphous as "substantially [supporting]" Al-Qaeda or "associated forces".