Sentence examples for detain from from inspiring English sources

Distress, in law, process that enables a person to seize and detain from a wrongdoer some chattel, or item of personal property, as a pledge for the redressing of an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.

She was detained from Saturday until Monday but then released without charge.

As he spoke by phone, he said he could see someone detained from his window.

It said he was detained from Dec. 15, 2003, until May 1 , 2005

According to Canadian border authorities, 6,768 individuals were detained from April 2014 to March 2015.

Upon arrival there a Chinese immigrant could be detained from weeks to years before being granted or denied entry.

The Channel-i and Bangla Vision TV stations said the guards had been detained from their camps across the country.

He even kept Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, whose troops were being detained, from having any public role.

No one was waiting for me or had invited me anywhere, because I had been detained from returning for a little stretch of ten years.

First, about 100 of those detained from the boats were carrying immense sums in their pockets — nearly a million euros in total.

Abaaoud's body was reportedly found in the flat below after falling through the floor, while three men from inside the building were arrested and another man and woman were detained from outside.