Sentence examples for were entrapped from inspiring English sources

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were entrapped

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To catch something in a trap or snare.

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So far, none of the alleged terrorists have been able to successfully claim that they were entrapped.

Their lawyers have argued that they were entrapped by a government sting operation.

Defense lawyers argue that the men were entrapped, after Mr. Hussain promised them money and other inducements.

Defense lawyers are arguing that their clients, swayed by money that Mr. Hussain was offering, were entrapped by federal agents.

In pictures from two years later, another performer — the artist Maren Hassinger — interacts with a second piece as if she were entrapped by it.

From 1991 to 1996 the battle for the ANC's soul got under way, and was eventually lost to corporate power: we were entrapped by the neoliberal economy – or, as some today cry out, we "sold our people down the river".

They charged that the two men were entrapped by an overzealous Federal Bureau of Investigation and convicted by a jury swayed by an anti-Muslim climate in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Defense lawyers argued during the eight-week trial that their clients were entrapped into making statements about holy war by Mr. Omar and another F.B.I. informant who obtained hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings.

Though the lawyers say their clients were entrapped, the defendants, in hours of recordings made by Mr. Hussain, can be heard actively planning for the attack and its aftermath.

In a written reply, Smita Narula, an author of the report and a faculty director of the two groups behind it, said it "never claims that 200 people were entrapped".

The defense claims that the four men were entrapped and that the plot was entirely the product of a paid government informant, Shaheed Hussain, a Pakistani with a criminal history.

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