Sentence examples for detain that from inspiring English sources

Third, for cases in which officials determine that the suspect cannot be prosecuted for whatever reason but is too dangerous to release, it would explicitly authorize the government to detain that person indefinitely without a trial under the laws of war.

The documents detail what until now has been a largely secretive process that enables the government to create a travel alert for a person, who may not be a suspect in an investigation, then detain that individual at a border crossing and confiscate or copy any electronic devices that person is carrying.

Inside the United States, the most radical departure from law as we have known it is President Bush's claim that he can designate any American citizen an "enemy combatant" -- and thereupon detain that person in solitary confinement indefinitely, without charges, without a trial, without a right to counsel.

Hovewer we detain that other nAChR subtypes could likely play important roles in mediating the effects of nicotine on lung development.

At least 180 monks were detained that night.

They told me I could be detained, that I could be removed from the country.

So many were detained that some were held in a building reserved for animals at the fairgrounds.

It also contravened Egyptian prosecutors' orders, given soon after they were detained, that they should be released.

But another volunteer detained that day, Reem, a Christian wearing a two-inch cross, said that she had never felt threatened in rebel areas.

"I can confirm that we do have one person who has been detained that we believe is possibly responsible for this shooting," Watson said.

On Christmas Day, 1814, the mayor informed Jackson, courteously but pointedly, that so many people were being detained that "Before two days, The Guard house shall be full".