Sentence examples for retentions from inspiring English sources

Alfonso Cano, a member of the FARC's seven-strong secretariat, as its top leadership is called, admits that the guerrillas receive money from "retentions" (kidnaps).

Any attempt to determine the relationships of monotremes must take into account these primitive retentions.

Not all the chemical alterations in uremia are simple retentions.

Furthermore, specific verbal inflectional features, such as the widespread forms for the first person singular (usually a verbal prefix a-) and second person singular (usually a verbal prefix i-), are best explained as retentions from a common ancestral language.

The extent of aboriginal retentions varies from group to group, with the Huichol approximating pre-Columbian patterns to the greatest degree, keeping their gods, pilgrimages to sacred places, and native religious concepts almost intact.

Spanos acknowledged that fans would react negatively to the retentions but chose not to elaborate on his decisions.

For Robinson, retention of his East Belfast seat is critical to his survival.

Related: Edward Snowden says Australia's new data retention laws are 'dangerous' The Conservative manifesto had promised to strengthen the state's powers of surveillance, despite opposition to the already considerable powers revealed by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor now living in exile in Russia.

We would replace the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which has failed … [We would] Follow human rights judgments limiting surveillance and data retention in full; [and] support the EU's proposals to strengthen data protection laws against opposition from large US data-driven companies".

Clinical officers complete a three year training programme and although part of the medical profession, have no formal equivalent position in the West, resulting in higher domestic retention.

Many western countries have developed bilateral agreements with African countries in an effort to encourage retention.