Sentence examples for described being stopped from inspiring English sources

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He was quietly angry as he described being stopped and searched by the police, sometimes twice in the same day.

Ms. Phillips described being "stopped, frisked, searched and detained" by the police at the store after a purchase at Barneys of a handbag valued at over $2,000.

In one instance cited in the suit, a 17-year-old boy who lives in the Bronx described being stopped by the police and questioned after returning from buying ketchup for dinner.

Professor Riasanovsky described being stopped by a sentry in the Ardennes Forest during a period of great tension among the Allied troops after English-speaking Germans in American uniforms had penetrated the lines.

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"I would also like to reassure current pupils within the PRU, as well as the wider community in Pembrokeshire, that the practice described was stopped as soon as the authority was made aware of it and that instructions were issued to all schools prohibiting the practice described.

The phrase is a cliche, but in The Power of Now, Tolle describes being stopped dead by its implications: "If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.

Community members have a stock phrase to describe being stopped and questioned at random by aggressive police: They say they're guilty of "walking while black".

Hillary often shares anecdotes about her grandchildren at campaign stops and has described being a grandmother as "truly like falling in love all over again".

However, as described above, recruitment was stopped after 127 men had been randomised in favour of the national protocol.

Some described how they were stopped from seeing their grandchildren or undertaking usual grandparent roles with them such as caring for them alone.

Peter Maass, in a profile of Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker to whom Snowden turned with his files, describes how she was stopped and harassed at border crossings for years before even meeting him, perhaps because of filming that she did in Iraq — but who knows why.

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