Sentence examples for detained less from inspiring English sources

They were detained less than half an hour after the explosion.

The Gul family members tried on June 8 were detained less than a year ago, with the evidence gathered in a way usable by the court, something less likely to be true of the older cases at Parwan.

The peacekeepers were detained less than a mile from the Golan Heights demilitarized zone and within the area that the United Nations patrols to monitor military activity there, according to the United Nations.

Ninety percent, the department said, were detained for less than three months.

At the juvenile detention center, which holds youths ages 10 to 21 before their trials, 43 percent of the those held are detained for less than a week.

The provision defining who can be detained is less sweeping than a similar provision in the House version of the bill.

Although other journalists and activists have been detained for less, it seems that Bahgat's status had kept him fairly well protected until now.

Hugo's girlfriend Tania, who studies at the same political science school, said the women detained faced less physical abuse but the mental pressures remained enormous.

Ms. Castro later sued the government, saying the agents had no legal authority to detain, much less deport, her daughter.

"The AFP had no evidence or lawful reason to detain, much less arrest or charge, any member of the Bali Nine before their departure from Australia," they said.

"Nonproductive detentions" -- the company's phrase for innocent people wrongly detained -- occur less than 1percentt of the time, and result in disciplinary action, store officials said.