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detains

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Third person singular of detain

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The posting on YouTube was entitled "Al-Nusra Front detains two Italian employees because of their government's participation in the coalition against it".

And so far he hasn't delivered.Palestinians viewed with scorn Israel's promise to release a few hundred prisoners out of the 5,000 or so political prisoners it detains.

Although the government boasts of rising arrests, most of the people it detains are never charged.

It gives them ample legal protection, and detains them only briefly and rarely.

The title character detains one of three young men on their way to a wedding feast and mesmerizes him with the story of his youthful experience at sea his slaughter of an albatross, the deaths of his fellow sailors, his suffering, and his eventual redemption.

Yarl's Wood Detention Centre is one of ten in the UK that detains asylum seekers until their immigration status has been processed – in other words, it's a likely destination for those who make it here from Calais.

"Mrs Bird, who looks after the Browns, says if she had her way she would set the children free and lock up a few politicians in their place to see how they liked it!" Although the UKBA itself has admitted that there is no evidence that families with young children abscond in significant numbers, the agency arrests and detains between 1,000 and 2,000 asylum-seeking children every year.

The letter stated that Israel "humiliates, detains, and tramples on the rights of the Palestinian population in all of the West Bank every day, also causing many deaths" and destroying homes while "the international community does nothing".

In Australia, the government detains asylum seekers from such places as Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan in camps that have all the aspects of prisons, including high walls and razor wire.

The mania for noticing things detains us, but as readers we spend the decelerated time more pleasurably than Vasco da Gama, who cools his heels impatiently in the waiting room; when we finally reach the end of the sentence, Lobo Antunes, having boisterously enlivened this listless interval, defies us to share the king's boredom.

He detains all the liberals and keeps down men of integrity.

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