Sentence examples for was internment from inspiring English sources
noun
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
"We know what kind of moment this is, and we don't want what we did to be looked back on like it was internment or the Palmer raids," Chertoff told me.
Each attack was followed by a communique written on a John Bull printing set in which the motivation was explained, whether it was internment in Northern Ireland, the Vietnam war, the government's industrial-relations policies or sexism.
Critics say: That's internment: it never worked against the IRA.
Let there be no doubt that a further extension of pre-charge detention would be internment.
Internment is not only an affront to human rights; it can also make sympathisers feel so angry and victimised that they are drawn into terrorist networks (as happened in Northern Ireland in the 1970s).Nor is internment a good long-term solution to terrorist plots.
These are internment camps, with a new name.
Katie Hopkins, recently fired from LBC for tweeting Britain needed a "final solution" after the Manchester terror attack, was asked whether there should be internment camps reminiscent of the Japanese camps during World War II.
His biggest mistake, though, was the internment of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry, whether innocent or guilty, without trial.
During World War II it was an internment center, albeit an elegant one, for high-level Nazi and Japanese diplomats and their families.
A further consequence of the war was the internment of hundreds of thousands of Italian emigrants across the world, especially in Britain and the United States.
The most significant exception was the internment of Japanese Americans.
