Sentence examples for detention about from inspiring English sources
The phrase "detention about" is not a grammatically correct or commonly used phrase in written English. A more correct phrase would be "detention for" or "detention regarding." For example, "He was given detention for skipping class" or "The meeting was held to discuss detention policies."
He has referred to 1,547 children as living in "community detention"; about 150 more are being held in detention centres.
After his detention, about 200 college students gathered outside his bookstore to sing Mongolian songs and hold up pictures of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.
Less clear, however, is what will happen to those already in detention — about 17,000 people in all.
There are more than 7,500 Palestinians in detention, about half of those for violence against Israelis.
Children in immigration detention (about 2,000 each year) are made to feel like criminals – dawn raids, long journeys in caged vans, roll counts, and watching their distraught parents being handcuffed and forced onto aeroplanes.
And so we got on to policy, in a fashion – about farmers' concerns over access to water, about funding cuts to the ABC, about Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in offshore detention, about climate change and local health needs.
Cameron and his colleagues say they agree with Davis about detention without charge, about ID cards and about civil liberties generally.
The rate of juvenile detention sits at about 24 times that of non-Indigenous youth.
But reforming the U.S. detention system is about much more than house plants and games.
Paul Keating introduced mandatory detention after about 200 Cambodians turned up in boats in one year.
The man, Carlos Zufriatequi, 29, slipped out of the Adolescent Reception and Detention Center about 4 30 a.m.
