Sentence examples for detaining only from inspiring English sources
In order to avoid further escalation, Mr. Okaili said, the force left after detaining only the spokesman.
The Turkish government says it is detaining only 26 reporters on a variety of accusations that include possession of arms and exposing state secrets.
Mr. Pavlensky was detained only briefly.
Similarly, dozens of members of the organisation have been detained, only to be released soon afterwards.
You can be detained only up to six hours (unless you are arrested or charged).
He was detained only after President Hamid Karzai issued clear instructions that all the assailants were to be brought to justice.
But in most of these cases, the officials said, people were detained only if they were in the United States illegally.
5 34 P.M. Apr 2nd Just for the record, in my storied career, I have touched 16 heads of state, all above the waist, and been detained only once.
He dashed back home to avoid being detained, only to find out chaos had broken out in Monrovia amid rumours of his arrest and rebel advances.
According to British law, enslaved persons could be detained only in houses of corrections, not common jails, and no houses of correction existed in Montréal.
In upholding the Sexually Violent Predator Act, however, the justices said that the state may detain only those found to be "highly likely" to commit another sex crime.
