"citizen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- An appellate court ruled earlier this year in Mr. Hamdi's case that a citizen captured on the battlefield could be held indefinitely as an enemy combatant.
- Posner is also not ready to deny United States citizens and foreigners captured on United States soil all rights to a hearing, as the Bush administration has argued for.
- Yasser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan, has been held since April in a naval brig, without formal charges or access to a lawyer.
- Government lawyers do not seem eager to give the justices a vehicle for elaboration, at least not one that involves Jose Padilla, an American citizen captured on American soil.
- The results hint that there may potentially be a relationship between the economic success of a country and the information-seeking behavior of its citizens captured in big data.
- In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that the resolution encompassed the detention of an American citizen captured on a foreign battlefield in a conventional war.
- Mr. Lindh, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan, ended up plea-bargaining for a 20-year prison term, avoiding a life sentence.
- The president possessed no inherent constitutional authority as commander in chief to detain as enemy combatants American citizens captured on American soil, the court said in a 2-to-1 ruling.
- The most significant case concerned the detention of Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan and then held without trial in the United States.
- It said the force authorization allowed the detention of an American citizen captured on a foreign battlefield in a conventional war notwithstanding a specific law prohibiting detentions without an act of Congress.
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