Sentence examples for arrest sweeps from inspiring English sources
Arrest sweeps were carried out last week on Tunisian rough sleepers in several French cities.
Cities and suburbs across America have tried to muscle immigrant day laborers off the sidewalk, passing laws that prohibit job solicitation in public places and enforcing them with ticketing and arrest sweeps.
The assault bore the hallmarks of past crackdowns: the deployment of dozens of tanks and armored vehicles on the outskirts to intimidate residents, the cutting of some basic services, then arrest sweeps with random firing through the most restive places.
And in an arrest sweep, Israeli troops detained more than 30 people suspected of being militants during a rare incursion into Jericho.
Many in Spain noted that the government's arrest sweep — dubbed "Operation Spider" — seemed to mistake tasteless online humor with terrorism.
Within days a wave of arrests swept China.
Many times that number have been arrested, with sweeps carried out this month in both Hama and Deir al-Zour.
The report, which also included interrogations of non-Taliban civilians who were arrested after sweeps of their communities, cited the high marks the insurgents received for their judicial activities, which in contrast to many government court actions, were offered to people without demands for payments or bribes.
The journalist, Barry Bearak, and a British citizen who was also arrested, were swept up at a small hotel in the suburbs of the capital, Harare, on Thursday afternoon.
The group is all that remains of the municipal council of this city, population 105,000, after successive waves of arrests have swept mayors, council members and staff into jail over the past couple of years.
The arrests also sweep up a distressingly large number of teenagers: 220,000 juveniles were picked up for drug offences in 1997, 82% more than in 1993.Many of those arrested receive mandatory minimum sentences of five or ten years for possession of a few grams of drugs, a dire punishment rushed through Congress in 1986 amid hysteria about crack cocaine.
