Sentence examples for are detaining from inspiring English sources

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are detaining

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Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

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There, they are detaining you.

"Not only are they not freeing him, but they are detaining his family members too".

We aim to protect the health and wellbeing of those we are detaining at all times".

"The police have been entirely civil with us, but they are detaining us nonetheless".

We are detaining these people, so it's about what rights we afford them.

In Cairo, plainclothes policemen and security officers are detaining journalists and confiscating their equipment, and bands of thugs or groups of neighborhood men, angry, are detaining and beating journalists who stray into their orbit.

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Suspicious passengers are detained for questioning.

Others are detained and beaten mercilessly.

Members of the Sharia court are detained.

Both servicemen are detained.

11 protestors are detained.

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