Sentence examples for was properly held from inspiring English sources

I don't think he was properly held.

At the hearings, to determine if he was properly held as an enemy combatant, Mr. Jawad said he had falsely confessed to the attack after being tortured by Afghan police.

The unanimous panel overturned as invalid a Pentagon determination that the detainee, Huzaifa Parhat, a member of the ethnic Uighur Muslim minority in western China, was properly held as an enemy combatant.

We need reform so that people have faith that MPs are properly held to account.

But Mr. Warden said the government could prove that Mr. Mohamed was being properly held without evidence of that plot.

The notices were given to detainees after military panels — combatant status review tribunals — found that all 14 were properly held.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, warned that Blair and Brown must be properly held to account to avoid accusations of a whitewash.

And he said that there needed to be an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission to ensure South Yorkshire police and its officers were properly held to account.

The NAO is overseen by the Public Accounts Committee, chaired by Tory MP Edward Leigh, which has previously heavily criticised the BBC as not being properly held to account over spending.

It is the greatest scandal of British public life in a generation, yet Blair and his allies, such as Jack Straw and Alastair Campbell, have never been properly held to account.

But the degree to which government and operational decisions are properly held to account in the targeting of terror suspects remains very imperfect and uneven.