"detain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The area was also used to detain Italian and German prisoners of war in 1944 and 1945.
- Obama refused to sign the bill with the part allowing the military to detain prisoners indefinitely.
- The prison was used to detain political prisoners until 1988 when it was closed.
- Despite this obvious limitation in a system of criminal justice, improvised solutions were found to detain prisoners.
- It was used by the Stalinist Soviet occupying forces to detain political prisoners.
- U.S. officials investigated the hospital and found no evidence that it was being used for organ harvesting or detaining prisoners.
- If interrogation is the point of detaining prisoners indefinitely, then physical coercion, humiliation and torture become inevitable.
- The base contains a complex prison, which he uses to temporarily detain prisoners.
- The main function of the camps was to detain Republican prisoners of war.
- New York City was a major site of occupation, where sugar houses were used to detain prisoners.
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