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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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61. This project will investigate all 74 cases together with a series of long term detention case under the 1964 Act.
62. Following worker demonstrations in 1970 he was elected chairman of the workshop strike committee and spent several days in detention.
63. Up to 1,000 asylum seekers were being held in detention at any one time, the report said.
64. The resolution refers specifically to detention centres and humanitarian aid.
65. The reasonable grounds can not be retrospectively provided by questioning during the period of detention.
66. Had the detention of the son been unlawful, Fennell would have been justified in acting as he did.
67. Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres.
68. The secretary of state for Northern Ireland appeared on television to read a special apologia for detention without trial.
69. In reality,[www.Sentencedict.com] a superintendent or above may authorize detention for up to thirty-six hours.
70. Harmondsworth detention centre is in an arid wasteland of motorways and outposts of the air terminals past Heathrow airport.
71. The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.
72. He was in and out of juvenile detention centers for four years on weapons and drug charges and other violations.
73. The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles.
74. A couple of hours kip in one of the detention rooms hadn't done him much good, and all for what?
75. His military career ended with a sentence of twenty-eight days' detention for absence without leave.
76. Brutal conditions have been unearthed in a series of youth detention centres around the country.
77. He was in and out of juvenile detention for drugs charges as a teenager.
78. Afternoons were given over to village leave, organised games, set walks, leisure periods and detention.
79. Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention, it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism.
80. Both psychiatrists said the patient did not satisfy the conditions necessary for continued detention under the Mental Health Act.
81. Further detention can only be authorised in the case of a person who is suspected of having committed a serious arrestable offence.
82. The judge ordered him into home detention for a year, with an ankle bracelet that monitors his movements.
83. Sanchez has been released without charge after five days' detention.
84. The largest obstacle facing reservation crime-fighters is a lack of funding for more officers, basic equipment and detention facilities.
85. Further applications can be made for extensions up to a maximum of 96 hours from the commencement of the detention.
86. Read in studio A Government plan to turn a disused juvenile prison into a detention centre for immigrants has been strongly criticised.
87. They were taken into detention two weeks ago and still are not allowed visitors.
88. High Commissioner for Refugees visit the detention center twice a week to assess those requests.
89. He almost burned it down. Set a fire in the detention room.
90. Her requests to inspect several detention centres where troops were alleged to have tortured prisoners were also ignored.
More similar words: pretentiouspretentiousnessintentionattentionabstentiondistentioncontentionpay attentionintentionallydetentepay attention toa bone of contentionsententiouslyconstitutional conventioncontentiousmentioninventionconventionpreventionnot to mentionventilationaforementionedinterventionconventionalidentificationunconventionaldeterrentpotentialattentivesurface tension
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