Sentence examples for are detention from inspiring English sources

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are detention

noun

The act of detaining or the state of being detained.

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The real story involves picking up a hitchhiker just before passing a sign warning against doing exactly that because there are "DETENTION CENTRES IN THE AREA".

The suit, filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn, alleged that the agency confined children in psychiatric hospitals for prolonged periods, sometimes when there was no need for them to be in the hospital at all, and that it used the hospitals "as if they are detention centers".

In its report, HRW says there are detention centers scattered throughout the country, even in abandoned buildings in Jammeh's hometown.

Among his other fear-mongering claims are that there are detention camps already set up by the U.S. government for "patriots" who won't go along with the government's agenda, that these detention camps are equipped with facilities to kill the detainees by gassing the "patriots," and that the government already has a list of the "patriots".

There's no time limit on migrant detention; the only mechanism reviewing individual cases are detention reviews, a standard process administered by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada where each detained migrant's case is reviewed monthly after initial processing to determine whether Canada should deport them, continue to hold them or release them.

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Find out the policies that you can break that are detention-worthy, and make sure to avoid the ones that are suspension-worthy.

Supervisions are detentions!

I mean, this is detention.

Then the only option is detention.

Many people were murdered and there was detention and torture.

GIs studied were detention pond, bioretention/rain garden, and permeable pavement.

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