Sentence examples for the detaining from inspiring English sources

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the detaining

verb

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

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This question should be directed to the detaining country".

A POW can be interned "until the cessation of hostilities", but is otherwise subject to the same laws as those applied to the detaining power's soldiers.

Moscow has denounced the detaining of Russian fans and accused the French authorities' actions as "further stoking of anti-Russian sentiments".

The electronic equipment, which contained information of journalistic interest, has not been returned, nor did the detaining officers inform Miranda when they would be returning it.

Under the Geneva Convention, enlisted prisoners of war could work for the detaining power, said Matthias Reiss, a professor at the University of Exeter, in England, who has researched the history of German P.O.W.'s.

The detaining of a senior banking executive is unusual and signals that the Justice Department is widening its scrutiny of questionable tax-related transactions to include foreign and offshore components.

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Many journalists were among the detained.

The families of the detained have also suffered enough.

The manager's boyfriend later assumes the duties of watching over the detained employee.

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

Police said official identification of all the detained would come after analysis of DNA samples.

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