Sentence examples for protracted detention from inspiring English sources
The commission's report depicts a country where the rule of law is crumbling and where abductions, enforced or involuntary disappearances, protracted detention without charge and attacks on journalists continue.
Many of the protesting nuns were arrested, incarcerated, brutally handled and released only after protracted detention.
Their protracted detention and fears over being resettled in PNG sparked the protest.
This year, the legality of this protracted detention at sea was challenged before Australia's High Court.
The registration of 83,519 men from 25 nations and the arrest and detention (many for protracted periods and in abusive conditions) of 768 non-citizens of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent were particularly offensive and counter-productive.
Khazali was freed this month from the US detention centre Camp Cropper, in western Baghdad, further raising expectations that Britain's most protracted hostage ordeal since Terry Waite was captured in Beirut 25 years ago would soon end.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
Another protracted silence.
