Sentence examples for detained my from inspiring English sources
When they detained my colleague on the paper's management team, I did not feel safe to return to Zimbabwe and I applied for asylum.
British customs officers once detained my father when, in response to their rote question about the purpose of his travels, he said dryly, "I've come to London to visit the queen".
"Since Irene's been detained my mum's been coming over to get my meals and so on". He is still hoping his wife will be allowed to return to their home in County Durham.
I have detained my audience entirely too long already.
hey detained my husband he was a Baath Party member.
"I think the government of the United States is very nasty to detain my daughter, because my daughter and I are not criminals or murderers.
"I humbly ask those who continue to detain my son and daughter to please release them and allow our family to be reunited and my fears for their safety to subside," she said.
When he objected that his political views had no relevance to security concerns, UK law enforcement officials threatened to detain him for the full nine hours allowed by the Terrorism Act of 2000, the same statute that was abused by UK officials last month to detain my partner, David Miranda, for nine hours.
"To detain my partner for a full nine hours while denying him a lawyer, and then seize large amounts of his possessions, is clearly intended to send a message of intimidation to those of us who have been reporting on the NSA and GCHQ.
If the goal of the UK in detaining my partner was - as it now claims - to protect the public from terrorism by taking documents they suspected he had (and why would they have suspected that?), that would have taken 9 minutes, not 9 hours.
On my way to Homs, polite but menacing pro-Assad gunmen detained me, my translator and her mother at one checkpoint for several hours.
