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Sentence count:174+7Posted:2017-02-14Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: custodydetainmentholdSimilar words: pretentiouspretentiousnessintentionattentionabstentiondistentioncontentionpay attentionMeaning: [dɪ'tenʃn]  n. 1. a state of being confined (usually for a short time) 2. a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home. 
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31. The legislation provides for the detention of suspected terrorists for up to seven days.
32. Set a fire in the detention room.
33. Normally, Campbell said, two detention officers oversee such transfers.
34. About a dozen people remain in detention without trial.
35. They put the detention basin in the golf course.
36. Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
37. Most remain in detention without charge or trial.
38. Pending a successful appeal, Downing could claim for wrongful arrest and 27 years unlawful detention.
38. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
39. For example, the time spent in detention for all detainees interviewed has been monitored.
40. The bodies of 18 had been recovered and 366 had been traced, most of them to detention centres for rebels.
41. They would instead be placed in administrative detention in the Qeziot detention centre in the Negev.
42. As we have seen the magistrates have an important role to play in overseeing the extension of detention beyond thirty-six hours.
43. Amnesty International opposes the detention without trial of all political detainees, including administrative detention.
44. During the first two days of her detention she repeated her request for asylum several times.
45. Perhaps Gen Pinochet's detention was a factor in the recent triumph of the social democrats there.
46. Human rights organizations opposed the emergency powers, which allowed for indefinite detention without trial.
47. A dissident, recently released from detention, gave a press conference in the capital today.
48. An estimated 200 people were to be released from detention immediately.
49. Under these provisions local authorities are expected to provide Intermediate Treatment, which is designed to replace attendance and detention centres.
50. The legislation also would give judges the power to increase sentences for juveniles, boosting the maximum detention period to 10 years.
51. There were a further 303 prisoners held under administrative detention, without trial.
52. Cases of detention without trial were common in the last century.
53. When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women.
54. Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain.
55. It's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service.
56. At least one political detainee, Corporal Thomas Benefo, remains in detention without charge or trial.
57. People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention.
58. She has worked as a detention hall monitor on schooldays and weekends.
59. Those bold enough to query the official faith risk detention and death.
60. He then smashed up his cell and began his detention with a three month sentence for assault and wilful damage.
More similar words: pretentiouspretentiousnessintentionattentionabstentiondistentioncontentionpay attentionintentionallydetentepay attention toa bone of contentionsententiouslyconstitutional conventioncontentiousmentioninventionconventionpreventionnot to mentionventilationaforementionedinterventionconventionalidentificationunconventionaldeterrentpotentialattentivesurface tension
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