Sentence examples for is internment from inspiring English sources
noun
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
Internment is not only an affront to human rights; it can also make sympathisers feel so angry and victimised that they are drawn into terrorist networks (as happened in Northern Ireland in the 1970s).Nor is internment a good long-term solution to terrorist plots.
Critics say: That's internment: it never worked against the IRA.
Let there be no doubt that a further extension of pre-charge detention would be internment.
"We know what kind of moment this is, and we don't want what we did to be looked back on like it was internment or the Palmer raids," Chertoff told me.
Each attack was followed by a communique written on a John Bull printing set in which the motivation was explained, whether it was internment in Northern Ireland, the Vietnam war, the government's industrial-relations policies or sexism.
These are internment camps, with a new name.
Katie Hopkins, recently fired from LBC for tweeting Britain needed a "final solution" after the Manchester terror attack, was asked whether there should be internment camps reminiscent of the Japanese camps during World War II.
Not only is such internment uncivilized, it is also counterproductive.
On Mr. Wilkinson's Web site, Liberty.com, he warns that the United States government is building "internment camps" for political dissidents.
His biggest mistake, though, was the internment of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry, whether innocent or guilty, without trial.
Other measures under consideration are large internment camps for refugees in Italy and Greece, to temporarily accommodate people while they are identified, registered, and finger-printed.
