Sentence examples for internment when from inspiring English sources

The shootings occurred during a mass arrest operation in the period of internment, when security forces detained hundreds of nationalists across Northern Ireland without trial.

Professor Kushner also sees a difference in the intensity of press reporting: "In the 1930s, except in the first few months of internment when you did get daily coverage, you didn't get these reports every day.

The problem with saying "internment" when we're really discussing a systematic exile based on race is much deeper than that.

It was in the Bogside area of the country's second largest city that British soldiers opened fire on 26 civilians during a peaceful march against internment – when the British army were making mass arrests of republicans they suspected to be involved with the IRA, and imprisoning them without trial.

With rare exceptions, like the 1988 congressional act that apologized to and compensated the Japanese-American victims of World War II internment, when it comes to the brute exercise of power, true patriotism has above all meant never having to say you're sorry.

With her beloved older sister, an artist, she had been held prisoner in a Japanese internment camp when she was 19 years old.

So the terrorists hope; but British ministers remember, just as well as the IRA, that when internment was last used, between 1971 and 1975, the rate of violence trebled.

That was one of the few moments in history – with the Germans apparently just a step away from an invasion – when internment without trial was justified; and if I had been home secretary, I too would have locked up the Oswald Mosleys, the John Becketts and the rest of them.

Hood River not only had a sizable Japanese population, but when internment of Japanese Americans began, became a hub for rail traffic to camps throughout the West.

When the internment directive was put in place, he refused to register at a processing center and was jailed.

In Northern Ireland, internment was a disaster when it was introduced in 1971.