Synonym: custody, detainment, hold. Similar words: pretentious, pretentiousness, intention, attention, abstention, distention, contention, pay attention. Meaning: [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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91. Cheng had been under continuous detention since his arrest in May 1987.
92. Just before the revolution he spent seven months in detention chained to a wall.
93. New forms of detention, fewer trendy clerics and, familiarly, less violent television.
94. Ormerod, age 19, was sentenced to nine months' detention for possessing and supplying cannabis.
95. His detention has provoked the anger of his supporters, who include the radical state senator Tom Hayden.
96. Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties.
97. On 26 February 1992 he was issued with a six-month detention order.
98. Marik, who had been held in detention for over a year,[www.Sentencedict.com] was eventually found not guilty.
99. The judge issued a detention order to the Waukesha County sheriff.
100. Women are more likely to end up in county jails because INSrun detention centers sometimes can not handle females.
101. It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office.
102. Read in studio A new detention centre for immigrants has taken delivery of its first inmates, despite protests from local people.
103. Read in studio Campaigners against a new detention centre for the immigration service have held a torchlight protest.
104. Olivier Nwaha Binya'a appears to be held in indefinite administrative detention without any opportunity to challenge his imprisonment.
105. As sanctions in the event of non-compliance, the peace keeper has powers of arrest, or detention short of arrest.
106. Talks between the government and opposition parties in the summer and autumn of 1989 led to improvements in the detention centres.
107. When they were rowdy and rude, I kept whole classes for detention.
108. Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name.
109. In this detention centre, contemptuous and inhuman attitudes have hardened into set rules.
110. The cafeteria aides came, and you were placed in detention for an hour that afternoon.
111. During his detention, 153 criminal charges were brought against him.
112. But the Government accepts that for persistent offenders some kind of youth detention must also be available to the courts.
113. The case also highlights the widespread practice of arbitrary detention that affects about 2 million people each year.
114. Gentry was handcuffed and taken to the Baltimore County Detention Center.
115. Many of those refused asylum had faced arrest, detention and torture upon their return to Sri Lanka, according to the report.
116. The warrant can authorise further detention for periods up to 36 hours.
117. More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
118. The judge gave Abraham a seven-year sentence in a juvenile detention centre, after which he will be released.
119. He appealed against the verdict, and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal.
120. It also established a Special Review Court with powers to review detention orders and to extend the initial 14-day detention period.
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