"detain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law, some for more than eight years.
- A person may be detained under Schedule 7 for up to 9 hours.
- They were detained under maximum security for two weeks in prison.
- One of my jobs is to detain people under the mental health act.
- He was detained for six weeks in 2006 under Mubarak.
- One further individual has been certified but is detained under other powers.
- She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections.
- Those detained under the decree have so far been released within a few days.
- These seven were detained under a French law that allows the police and prosecutors to question them for 48 hours.
- He was detained between 1965 and 1966 under the draconian law.
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