Sentence examples for be seized and held from inspiring English sources

All it took was "some really small comment" for him to be seized and held, in a village outside Beijing.

Instead, it argued that suspects could be seized and held indefinitely on the president's say-so, and subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" that sounded awfully like torture.The Bush administration was appallingly negligent about abuses at Abu Ghraib.

The Kremlin said it feared that those works would be seized and held as ransom in the dispute, even though American officials have insisted that such seizures are prohibited by law.

Yet Calabresi's plan is consistent with the way many conservatives have come to view not only the courts but all institutions of government, from independent agencies to state legislatures: as territory to be seized and held by whatever means.

'* * * If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the 4th Amenment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution.

When a man is legally arrested for an offense, whatever is found upon his person or in his control which it is unlawful for him to have and which may be used to prove the offense may be seized and held as evidence in the prosecution.

He was seized and held captive for 444 days with 51 other hostages.

Mohamed was seized and held in Pakistan in 2002 before being secretly rendered to Morocco.

Thirty-five yeafterftheythey were seized and held in captivity for 444 days by Iranian revolutionaries, the 53 Americans - or their families - are to receive $4.4m in compensation.

More than 500 women and girls have been seized and held in militant camps since 2009, including 60 reportedly kidnapped from two towns in north-eastern Nigeria last week.

Frogs and small birds were seized and held until movement stopped.