Sentence examples for been arrested instead from inspiring English sources

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He had been arrested instead, on the eve of war.His purpose in Kashmir had not been entirely unpolitical.

If the local police had come, dos Santos said, Cantanhede could have been arrested instead of killed.

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Once he got his visa, Dr. Karabus went to the immigration desk to enter Dubai, but he was arrested instead.

"The victim was arrested instead of the rapists, so the rapists have been rewarded," Barake told the Guardian in her first major interview since her acquittal.

According to Hue residents, other members of the Linh Mu pagoda, fearing that the abbot was being arrested instead of simply being questioned, staged a sit-down strike at one of the city's busiest intersections.

Vincente Pierre, 44, identified in court as one of those trying to buy a machine gun, and his wife, Traci Elaine Upshur, 37, were arrested instead on charges of conspiring in 1998 and 1999 to buy two semiautomatic pistols for Mr. Pierre, a felon who is not allowed to own a gun.

Ahmed was arrested instead of being praised for his sense of discovery and innovation — which, as Ahmed is a young Muslim of color, raises questions of prejudice and inappropriate knee jerk reactions.

Research has shown that victims are 64percentt more likely to be killed if their partners are arrested instead of being warned and permitted to remain in the home.

In July 2014, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said that he "wished they [the journalists] were deported immediately after they were arrested instead of being put on trial".

Such a small difference in reaction may be explained by the fact that Xpc-/ mice are less capable of removing B[a]P induced damage in testis [ 5], and therefore more damaged cells are arrested (instead of a stronger reaction in each individual cell).

United Nations officials emphasized that the men had not been arrested, but instead were being held for questioning until charges were brought against them.

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