Sentence examples for public arrest from inspiring English sources

The public arrest torpedoed Mansfield's congressional bid.

But her public arrest and subsequent treatment as "a common criminal" has prompted outrage at home.

When Mr. Rus offered to spirit him out of his house in a police car to avoid a public arrest, Mr. Nastase declined, he said.

Vincent Tchenguiz is claiming £200m compensation for having to sack 60 staff and scale back his business interests after his "very public arrest".

Mr. Martir also said he had asked prosecutors to agree to a surrender rather than a public arrest if the mayor was indicted but was refused any assurances.

Things would go very differently for Guitry after World War II, when he was unjustly accused of collaborating with the German occupation forces and subjected to a humiliating public arrest and 60 days of imprisonment.

Police had seen Langdon with a plastic bottle and, suspecting he had been drinking in public, arrested him under the paperless arrest scheme.

The very public arrests were carried out despite offers in recent days by Mr. Rigas and his sons to surrender voluntarily to the authorities, their lawyers said.

But critics have complained that the investigations tended to focus on low- and mid-level officials and that the government's enthusiasm for public arrests went cold when the trail led to senior officials.

Also controversial during Singh's tenure was the enactment of a law in 1992 intended to prevent cheating during the school and college examinations; the resulting lower graduation rates and public arrests of a large number of alleged cheaters sparked protests, and the law was later repealed.

In September, Washington confirmed it was monitoring American jihadists who had returned though no public arrests have been made.