Sentence examples for the detained from inspiring English sources

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the detained

verb

Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

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Many journalists were among the detained.

A melee began and the detained rebel was led away.

Details on the detained man have not been released.

Tensions eventually eased when Ghana freed the detained Guineans.

The families of the detained have also suffered enough.

A Greenpeace spokesman declined to comment on the detained protesters.

The detained Britons later accused Iran's Revolutionary Guard of forcing them into Iranian waters.

The detained opposition leaders were later charged with unlawful assembly and released on bail.

"It deprives the detained person of the protection a criminal trial is intended to afford".

This time he managed to meet Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained opposition leader.

That raises questions about what kind of role the detained Tunisians might have played.

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