Sentence examples for forcible detention from inspiring English sources

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It can be wonderfully effective when a novel about a serious issue — in this case, the forcible detention of young women suspected of spreading venereal disease during World War I — plunges into its story headfirst, with humor.

Officials said that the tightened screening procedures had gone into effect gradually in the last few weeks and that, so far, no airline passengers had required forcible detention, suggesting that the efforts of Asian governments and major airlines to prevent passengers infected with SARS from boarding trans-Pacific flights had been successful.

The population pressure in the south was eased as incoming numbers fell due to Viet Minh propaganda campaigns and forcible detention, combined with the rice harvesting season, which had prompted some to delay their departure.

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This state-sanctioned violence has included beatings with batons, forcible detentions and the sexual assault of priests.

Human Rights Watch, among others, are dismissive of this ruling, insisting: "The UK has... been complicit in the illegal detention, forcible transfer to the UK and torture of some terrorism suspects.

But these are children and their parents are asylum seekers, which means that the thousands subjected to the forcible removal to detention centres and captivity by the British state have gone largely unnoticed; the chilling word used of these people by the prisons inspector, Anne Owers, is "invisible".

If asylum seekers aren't left in poverty, they could face indefinite detention or forcible deportation – even if they are fleeing persecution.

It suggests that they are responsible for crimes including killings, rape, arbitrary detention, abductions and forcible land grabs.

All nine are in detention camps here, facing forcible return to Vietnam.

And any forcible measure must necessarily entail some degree of detention or restraint whatever method of removal is selected.

These 501s, facing only an indefinite incarceration without charge, or forcible deportation, now outnumber asylum seekers in many immigration detention centres across Australia, including on Christmas Island.

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