Sentence examples for as were apprehended from inspiring English sources

Moreover, among unauthorized migrants in fiscal 2017, about twice as many entered the United States legally — and overstayed their visas — as were apprehended at the southern border, according to government figures.

He reports that "Modern accounts pretend to say, it [the gibbet] was for all sorts of felons; but I am well assured, it was first erected purely, or at least principally, for such thieves as were apprehended stealing cloth from the tenters; and it seems very reasonable to think it was so".

Last year, more than 63,200 migrants traveling as families were apprehended there.

Ordinarily, those condemned as heretics were apprehended by an authority of the secular government and put to death by burning.

Warning shots were fired as they were apprehended.

What if Osama bin Laden, as unlikely as it sounds, were apprehended in New York?

Rather, people wrestled with the banalities of daily life as ominous events were apprehended like distant thunder, lending his narrative the absurdist quality of a Beckett play or the chill of a Kafka story.

Both the Olympian deities of ancient Greece and the Tao ("Way") of ancient China were apprehended as lying at the centre of what today is commonly known as the natural; yet they were described in language that was imbued with concepts of the sacred.

Fearing for their own lives, the two siblings crossed into Guatemala heading for the US, but were apprehended as they tried to enter Mexico.

Traditional journalists decried the use of these reenactments, but hundreds of criminals were apprehended as a result of viewers' calling the station in response to photographs of the suspects that were shown at the end of each episode.

In the same year as his acquittal, 1,217 fishermen were apprehended and detained.