Sentence examples for are detained for from inspiring English sources

Suspicious passengers are detained for questioning.

Those found without papers are detained for three months, then told to leave the country within four weeks.

"At security screening centres men and boys are detained for long times, separated from mothers and sisters.

The inmates' frustration is understandable: many of them are detained for months on end, without any hope of release.

But I think it is essential that psychiatry doesn't happen behind closed doors and there is proper scrutiny of our decisions that people are detained for treatment".

As many as 50 adults are detained for up to a week in a single holding area, with no shower, agents said.

He was detained for months.

Mr Miranda was detained for nine.

Aaron's being detained, for doing what?

Several presidential candidates were detained for weeks.

Three people have been detained for questioning.