Sentence examples for held innocent from inspiring English sources

In 1993, as a young professor, he led the legal fight to shut down this nation's first Guantanamo detention camp, which at the time held innocent Haitian refugees.

These, chiefly, have centered on well-founded claims that the prison has mostly held innocent men or low-level Taliban foot soldiers.

The terrorists have discovered holding innocent persons hostage they can coerce the world with moral blackmail.

Even so, Mr. Lewis's decision to hold innocent institutions hostage strikes many in philanthropic circles as extraordinary.

But, Gupta says, "it shouldn't have taken the A.C.L.U. to make the government realize that holding innocent children in a converted medium-security adult prison is a bad idea".

I also hold innocent to Alfred letting Vicki Vale into the Batcave.

Videos of killers wielding illegal guns and holding innocent people hostage -- or worse.

"I hope they will compensate for their damages and not hold innocents in prison any longer," he wrote, "and end the legal trials and the broadcasting of confessions, so that they no longer mock the Islamic judiciary; or at least have the courage to announce that this government is neither a republic nor is it Islamic".

They allow that there is such a right, and that it holds in normal circumstances, but that it fails to hold or is outweighed when allowing it to hold would make innocent people destitute, or create large inequalities that are likely to lead to exploitation and domination.

Moreover, we now know that Bush administration proxies essentially held mostly innocent people, whom they tortured and who subsequently after their release became radicalized.

I know I sound like a nut job, and I could be completely wrong about this, but the fact is the government wanted to monitor these people so badly, that they held two innocent people in federal prison, without being charged with anything, for five months.