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Detention in sentence

208 examples of Detention in a sentence

From Australia's brutal offshore detention camps to Italy's criminalization of aid to migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, first-world countries have gone to deadly lengths to keep refugees from reaching our shores.
Those of us who are citizens of countries whose policies cause detention, separation and death, need to very quickly decide which side we're on.
In 2014, I visited a detention facility where hundreds of little children, immigrant children, were detained for several weeks in conditions that were very heartbreaking.
The day I visited the detention facility back in 2014, there was a little boy who approached me and asked me for me to help him find his mom.
And there they had a detention camp where alleged Vietnamese would be tested, language tested.
I mean they make jokes about her mom driving a rusty old truck, her mom smashing an old TV with a bat, and then there's the jokes about Sam failing in school, getting detention all the time and running from cops.
They killed and tortured a woman in France and the two SEAL's only got a 1 week detention on ship, whereas a Seamen was caught stealing a bottle of wine from a French wine shop and he got a court martial.
After stabbing a retarded boy, the fifteen years old troubled and pessimist Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) is sent to a juvenile detention.
Set in a California detention camp in an indistinct future, an English film crew capture proceedings as young students and political dissidents are put on trial under a fictional 'Insurrection Act' that allows the United States government to suspend civil liberties for its own citizens in cases of emergency without the right to bail or the necessity of evidence.
pixote is the name of a 12 year-old boy who lives in the streets, and survive with misdemeanors; he stays for a while in a house of detention, and when he left it he continues to plan robs with other buns and a prostitute, played by marilia Pera. the boy is still a marijuana addicted and smell glue with another teenagers, to forget his sad reality.
When Patty looked at the case file, the judge sent her to a Juvenile detention facility.
He's always on detention, he's always doing the wrong stuff...
The camera follows them around in an almost documentary style;from the juvenile detention center (where most of the staff is as corrupt as the police) and back to the streets, and it never turns away from the horrors of the city.
Think of it as an extreme form of detention without trial.
Things get dicey when while watching over a bunch of students in detention some robbers take over the school as a base of operation for an armored car robbery.
Its like a Mission Impossible movie would be about Ethan Hunt locked in the detention room in high school talking with the janitor about when he went to junior high school and Hunt would have been played by DJ Qualls (in Road Trip).
"Holes" is based on the novel by Louis Sachar and follows the adventure of Stanley Yelnats, a boy who gets sent to a strange juvenile detention camp out in the desert.
It's about a boy, Stanley Yelnats (Shia LeBeouf) who is wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to Camp Green Lake, a boys' detention center.
The ensuing comedy is too funny to describe, from the bus trip to the stadium, to the interceding of the police and subsequent detention of the girls, to the resulting end.
all in all detention is an enjoyable action flick, but youv'e seen it a million times before.
When the kids are in detention, given by the coach, 2 of the boys give Marty a joint that will make him throw up.
A defecting Soviet pilot (Leigh) is given a totally free rein (no detention, no interrogation, nothing!) and even allowed to fly modern US jet fighters, watched only by Wayne's character, who has fallen for her.
Yet, they are all in detention.
Initially, Blair attempted to force through detention without charge for up to 90 days.
Rights brought home one day; detention for a month without charge the next.
Nevertheless, many remain in detention and Voronin continues to hurl accusations at the opposition and Romania of organizing a coup d’état.
Kownacki was accompanied on that trip, according to the report, by “Mateusz Piskorski, the founder of a Polish think tank, the European Centre for Geopolitical Analysis (ECGA) who is now in detention in Poland, facing charges of spying for Moscow.”
Some ex-Baathists ended up in US detention centers, where abusive practices were widespread.
By the time ISIS proclaimed its “caliphate” in 2014, an estimated 17 of its 25 principal commanders – including the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – had spent time in US detention centers between 2004 and 2011.
The United States Congress is currently debating a law that would impose asset freezes and visa bans on the 60 people identified as having had some responsibility for Magnitsky's detention and death.
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