Sentence examples for detained briefly from inspiring English sources

The police said five people were arrested and 28 others detained briefly for questioning.

Mr. Ismail said he personally was detained briefly on Friday when he visited Addu, which is about a 90-minute flight from Male.

They had sailed their fishing boat to those barren rocks (known as the Senkakus by the Japanese, who administer them), and were detained briefly after landing there.

The French bank tendered the offer to bolster its capital after losses that arose from a huge rogue-trading scandal (in which another bank employee was detained briefly).

Martin Liechti, a top private banker at UBS, recently was detained briefly by federal authorities in Florida as a material witness in the investigation.

He has represented petitioners with grievances against officials and was detained briefly in 2009 for wearing a T-shirt reading: "The Chinese Communist party opposes one-party rule" – a quote from a communist newspaper of the 1940s.

Last August, she was briefly detained after expressing sympathy for a detained democracy advocate, Liu Xianbin.

This is a bit technical, but put briefly: if a detained patient requires leave from a ward, even for a very brief period, this must be written up in advance by their consultant psychiatrist.

The government briefly took his passport, detained and intimidated him; he has not released anything since.

PAGE A14 NEW YORK BROOKLYN COUNCILMAN DETAINED AT PARADE A city councilman from Brooklyn, Jumaane D. Williams, was handcuffed and briefly detained by the police on Monday during the West Indian Day parade, after an argument with officers over whether he was allowed to use a closed sidewalk, said Bill de Blasio, the Public advocate, whose aide was arrested in the dispute.

People were detained and tortured.