Sentence examples for detaining for from inspiring English sources

A Pakistani official said last week that officials in his government were reluctant to disclose the nationality of the people they were detaining for fear that they would be constrained in their interrogations.

Kelsen goes on to count as coercive acts such things as detaining those suspected of crimes, detaining for protective custody, detaining of the insane, detaining in internment camps potential enemies of the state, and the confiscation or destruction of property (Kelsen 1967 [1934], 40 41).

He was detained for months.

Suspicious passengers are detained for questioning.

Mr Miranda was detained for nine.

Aaron's being detained, for doing what?

Several presidential candidates were detained for weeks.

Three people have been detained for questioning.

One participant was detained for drug possession.

He was detained for 104 days.

"They have been detained for further probe.