"detention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

detention sustantivo

sustantivo + detention
Kolokacji: 3
home detention • immigration detention • police detention
detention + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 26
detention center • detention camp • detention facility • detention cell • detention policy • ...
verbo + detention
Kolokacji: 20
hold in detention • challenge one's detention • permit detention • allow detention • spend in detention • ...
adjetivo + detention
Kolokacji: 29
indefinite detention • preventive detention • extrajudicial detention • administrative detention • arbitrary detention • ...
(1) indefinite, open-ended
Kolokacji: 2
  • The two separate lawsuits, seeking a federal court hearing on the validity of the open-ended detention, were combined by the Federal District Court here.
  • Last week the Supreme Court changed that, ruling that open-ended detention of Mariel Cubans was illegal.
  • And while foreign-policy officials emphasized the diplomatic costs of the open-ended detentions, none of the officials wanted to take responsibility for releasing a potentially dangerous prisoner.
  • The emergency regulations governing the joint Iraqi and American crackdown permit arrests without warrants and open-ended pretrial detentions, the report said.
  • Since 9/11, the Bush record has been a retrogressive muddle of open-ended preventive detention and ginned-up lawyers' rationales for operating beyond the Bill of Rights.
  • And last year, the Supreme Court rejected the administration's claim that those labeled "enemy combatants" were not entitled to judicial review of their open-ended detention.
  • With its totalitarian overtones and prospect of open-ended detention, to say nothing of its circuitous logic, the case would seem to be on a docket in Iraq or China.
  • In November 2003, Mr. Chertoff, then a federal judge, delivered a widely noted speech in which he said the policy of open-ended detentions for terror suspects needed to be changed.
  • The court has agreed to decide whether detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to access to civilian courts to challenge their open-ended detention.
  • Later this year, probably before its winter recess, the court will decide whether to hear a United States citizen's challenge to his open-ended detention as an "enemy combatant."
(2) preventive, preventative
Kolokacji: 2
(7) long, far
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + detention
Kolokacji: 13
in detention • of detention • to detention • for detention • from detention • ...

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