Sentence examples for detained against from inspiring English sources

"Patients", "clients" and "consumers" all have a slightly Orwellian ring, especially when referring to "clients" being detained against their will.

Th author carefully selects and details the stories of 12 people who were labeled "lunatics" and detained against their will in an "asylum".

Once stateside, Priven was quickly deemed to be no danger to himself or others, and so he could not be detained against his will, his crime having been committed outside United States jurisdiction.

But the prospect of being kettled, detained against your will in a crowd for many hours, is a serious deterrent and has an obvious chilling effect on the right to demonstrate.

A federal government Web site is collecting postings from passengers: "There is NO reason people should be detained against their will," even in an airplane, said one, posted under the name Richard Neilsen.

Once the lovers, spurning all advice, are bound in matrimony, they move to Bechuanaland, only to be kept apart for long periods, with Seretse detained against his will in England and his wife marooned in Africa: a desperate plight for the two of them, but not much fun for us, either, as we listen to them hollering down the phone.

"It is alleged that on May 26 2013 Feroz Khan, Fuad Awale and David Watson, all of whom were at that time prisoners at HMP Full Sutton, unlawfully imprisoned a prison officer and detained him against his will.

Last week medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced it was pulling out of working in the largest of the island camps, Moria, as people were effectively being detained there against their will and where there are now daily protests.

That's a key point, because the extradition treaty between Switzerland and the United States stipulates "a person who has been extradited shall not be detained, proceeded against, or sentenced for any offense committed prior to surrender other than that for which extradition has been granted...unless...the competent authorities of Switzerland consent".

This is an old rhetorical trick that the Bush White House has used in order to justify altering the laws governing our use of force against detained individuals in this war against the terrorists who hit us on 9/11.

The use of police weaponry against detained patients is part of a much bigger problem.