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How to use detention in a sentence

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The report is critical of the inhumane treatment of children in arbitrary detention and calls into question our commitment to human rights.
She'd give you detention for sneezing in her class, coughing or even loud breathing.
This allows for the detention of potentially dangerous untreatable patients within the scope of the Human Rights Act.
No doubt there are arguments in favour of extending PACE to apply to arrest and detention for breach of the peace.
Gao began his hunger strike on Feb.19 when he was paroled by the Taipei Prison and transferred to the detention center to await deportation.
The military has announced the detention of more than 100 people including Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks and ethnic Uighurs from western China.
But he is in detention at an immigration detention center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture.
Campaign groups will gather outside Dungavel today to protest about conditions for refugees in the detention centre.
And the screams of what could be imprisoned men in an underground detention center echo through air shafts and sewer pipes.
Section 412 of the Act permits indefinite detention of immigrants and other non-citizens.
I got in trouble for cutting school, staying out late, lying about detention and lying about homework.
The detention centre in Katajanokka will be acting in connection with the Helsinki reception centre for immigrants.
I didn't know anything about detention centres and I'd like to think I'd be the same with any kid who needed a bit of a bunk up.
There was also Krome Service Processing Center, an immigration detention center near Miami.
A period of detention will in principle be lawful if it is carried out pursuant to a court order.
Thus the reasons for and the purpose behind a person's detention are all-important.
After coming to power, the coalition released all the cadres of terrorist organisations still in detention.
That detention, according to authorities, was for his own safety, which later changed when he was charged with fomenting violence.
If anyone asks where I'm going I'll say I have to pick up an assignment from the English staffroom, which is right next to the detention room.
The claimant has also no right to a conditional discharge while the recognised statutory requirements for detention are satisfied.
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