Detention Sentence Examples

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  • In 1901 Bellary was chosen as one of the places of detention in India for Boer prisoners of war.

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  • The queen had visited it more than once before her detention, and had had a presence chamber built in it.

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  • Caesarea, indeed, as a city of mixed population and lying just outside Judaea proper - a place, moreover, where Timothy might have become known during Paul's two years' detention there - would satisfy many conditions of the problem.

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  • Such schools are for children up to the age of fourteen, and the limit of detention is sixteen.

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  • The interest of the place centres in its abbey, which since 1804 has been utilized and abused as a central house of detention for convicts.

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  • He was tried and allowed to go at liberty after some detention in prison.

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  • Although the detention of a crusader was contrary to public law, Richard was compelled to purchase his release by the payment of a heavy ransom and by doing homage to the emperor for England.

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  • A little more than twelve months later, a coup d'etat placed the tsesarevna Elizabeth on the throne (December 6, 1741), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Diinamtinde (Ust Dvinsk) (December 1 3, 1742) after a preliminary detention a Riga, from whence the new empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick.

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  • His wild extravagance, however, forced his father to forestall his creditors by securing his detention in semi-exile in the country, where he wrote his earliest extant work, the Essai sur le despotisme.

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  • There were many causes of quarrel between the two ambitious young monarchs, but the detention at Copenhagen in 1563 of a splendid matrimonial embassy on its way to Germany, to negotiate a match between Eric and Christina of Hesse, which King Frederick for political reasons was determined to prevent, precipitated hostilities.

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  • The lords opposed to Somerset ordered his detention on the 10th of October, and in November he was in the Tower.

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  • These murders were committed so promptly and secretly that it is doubtful whether the estates, actually in session at the same place, knew what had been done when, on the 26th of May, under violent pressure from Goran Persson, they signed a document declaring that all the accused gentlemen under detention had acted like traitors, and confirming all sentences already passed or that might be passed upon them.

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  • At this time prisons were primarily places of detention, not of punishment, peopled by accused persons, still innocent in the eyes of the law, and debtors guilty only of breaches of the financial rules of a commercial country, framed chiefly in the interest of the creditor.

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  • After this it became a regular place of detention for important state prisoners, such as Syphax of Numidia, Perseus of Macedonia, Bituitus, king of the Arverni.

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  • A little later he sent a protest to England against the commercial blockade and the detention of cargoes bound for neutral ports.

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  • In connexion with the juvenile court detention homes have been established, and in certain conditions justices of the peace are empowered to act as judges of the juvenile court in their respective precincts.

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  • A prison erected here at this period gave place later to the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of a Fenian outrage in 1867, when it was sought to release certain prisoners by blowing up part of the building.

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  • It was now proposed to do the same thing for the whole of Ireland, the power of detention to continue until the 30th of September 1882.

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  • He was condemned to detention for life in a fortress, his friend Aladenize being deported, and Montholon, Parquin, Lombard and Fialin being each condemned to detention for twenty years.

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  • The rupture, therefore, took place in the middle of May; and on a flimsy pretext the First Consul ordered the detention in France of all English persons.

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  • After a short detention in a police cell, an offender, unless disposed of summarily, passes into one of His Majesty's prisons, there to await his trial at sessions or assizes.

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  • It is only a short time since the local gaol in the city of New York, "the Tombs," a house of detention for prisoners awaiting trial, was described in an official report to the state legislature as "a disgraces.

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  • He was bold enough to speak and vote for the "detention of Louis during the war and his perpetual banishment afterwards," and he pointed out that the execution of the king would alienate American sympathy.

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  • When a ship shall have entered or shall have been detained in any port or place under the circumstances, or for the purposes of the repairs, mentioned in Rule X., the wages payable to the master, officers and crew, together with the cost of maintenance of the same, during the extra period of detention in such port or place until the ship shall or should have been made ready to proceed upon her voyage, shall be admitted as G.A.

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  • Where the detention is to repair accidental damage it seems clear that they are not allowed.

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  • Philip was sentenced to detention for fifteen years, and as he was heartily disliked by Charles his imprisonment was a rigorous one, and became still more so after he had made an attempt to escape.

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  • As early as 1657 criminals were banished to the island by the Dutch authorities at Cape Town; it has also served as the place of detention of several noted Kaffir chiefs.

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  • It is available to put an end to all forms of illegal detention in public or private custody.

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  • But after his recantation his detention was made less severe and he was allowed many alleviations.

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  • In April 1906 it was chosen as the place of detention of Behanzin, the ex-king of Dahomey, who died in December of that year.

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  • Many of the works relating to Napoleon's detention at St Helena are perversions of the truth, e.g.

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  • In the spring of 1583 she retained enough of this saintly resignation to ask for nothing but liberty, without a share in the government of Scotland; but Lord Burghley not unreasonably preferred, if feasible, to reconcile the alliance of her son with the detention of his mother.

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  • A few days afterwards the insurrection which established the Commune broke out, and Blanqui `.was elected a member of the insurgent government, but his detention in prison prevented him from taking an active part.

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  • The first is a new method for educating and reforming young offenders, already on the frontiers of habitual crime, no longer children, but at an age still susceptible of permanent improvement; the second is the legal acceptance of the principle of indefinite detention, the willingness to inflict an indeterminate sentence on those who have already forfeited the right to be at large.

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  • In 1701 William Dampier was wrecked on its coast, and during his detention discovered the only spring of fresh water the island contains.

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  • Please don't be remiss in doing your homework, or else you will get detention!

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  • You must conform to the school's rules, or else you will get detention.

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  • Released in 1985, The Breakfast Club tells the story of a group of high school students forced to spend Saturday detention together.

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  • By the end of detention, the group had discovered just how many similarities they shared and came away with newfound respect for each other.

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  • There are a score of cases of serious imprisonment, and a countless number of arrests and temporary detention.

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  • While thus occupied he was arrested by the municipality of Sedan; he was set free after a few days' detention.

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  • The chief prisons are at Louvain, Ghent and St Gilles (Brussels), and the last named serves as a house of detention.

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  • On the 23rd of July the same evidence was laid before the law officers, who advised that there was sufficient ground for detention.

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  • A sentence of detention for a term not exceeding six months passed under either of those provisions.

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  • No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

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  • There have been numerous suicide attempts in the detention camp.

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  • As for the question of secret C.I.A. detention centers in Europe, the new report offered no hard evidence.

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  • Detention and rapid decision making would facilitate a major effort on removal which would be an essential concomitant.

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  • The Mental Health Act allows the detention of people in hospital under certain conditions.

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  • Thus, the present system remains intact and there is unlikely to be a flood of claims for wrongful conviction or unlawful detention.

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  • The prison service must minimize risk by deporting criminals direct from prison and not via the asylum detention estate.

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  • Families can offer their relative a place to stay to enable them to be released early under the home detention curfew scheme.

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  • Detention at Dallas Court is one of the first links in the chain to eventual deportation to unsafe countries.

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  • Section 221 provides for the temporary suspension of the measure in an assessment order which authorizes detention of the patient in hospital.

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  • They claim them equally in breach of the article of the European Convention on Human Rights forbidding indefinite detention without trial.

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  • After a week in incommunicado detention he was taken to the airport and summarily expelled from the country to Belgium on 15 June.

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  • A person who has been sentenced to preventive detention or imprisonment for three years or more will be prohibited for life.

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  • Once the matter becomes one of preventative detention, an alarming slippery slope looms.

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  • The Police were heavily involved in arguing for a 90-day pre-charge detention period.

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  • Again, however, rather than being set free, he was taken into pre-deportation detention.

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  • Over 2,200 people - says the exhibition's leaflet - are locked up in immigration detention in the UK at any one time.

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  • Health and other problems in detention following the hunger strikes, concern has again been raised about the medical attention received in Centers.

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  • However, the decision will not mean that all detention in the UK will be declared illegal.

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  • Still in detention, security operatives traced my residence also interrogated my family.

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  • This can be achieved by the use of detention tanks within the site but these can again be costly and may occupy valuable land.

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  • The man is in military detention in Port Moresby awaiting court martial, reports The Post-Courier.

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  • That is why it important to fight against the detention and deportation of everyone - whether asylum seeker, overstayer or undocumented migrant.

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  • The first relates to the proposal to extend the maximum period of detention prior to charge to three months.

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  • The detention was not pursuant to Vietnam's Customs Code but to an order of a Special Court.

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  • It will also have exclusive purview over the detention and repatriation of those guilty of human smuggling.

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  • In 1998 the detention of families was ' particularly regrettable ', according to the Home Office.

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  • The White Paper poses the question of whether the detention time limits are adequate and whether the detail of PACE is too great.

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  • Conclusion The detention of asylum seekers is inherently undesirable.

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  • For the purpose of connecting the greatest possible number of points of concentrated travel, the first railways were laid round the boundaries of areas approximately circular, the theory being that the short walk from the circumference of the circle to any point within it would be no serious detention.

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  • Prins, the chief of the prison department, who has protested that to hope the vicious, hardened offender, after a long detention, "surrounded with every attention, soaked with good counsel, will leave his cell regenerated," is a Utopian dream.

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  • Since that date the habeas corpus ad subjiciendum has been used in cases of illegal detention in private custody.

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  • The last clause was intended to meet doubts on the applicability of habeas corpus in cases of illegal detention on board ship, which had been raised owing to a case of detention on a foreign ship in an English port.

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  • Long term detention without trial and publicly shaming them by publishing photo 's of them in their underwear is the only possible solution.

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  • The orders have been coming from their supreme commander, Xanana Gusmao, recently freed from detention by the Jakarta regime.

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  • He is trying to wrong-foot all those who oppose 90-days detention to prove that only he is tough on terrorism.

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  • Some villagers in the more northern part of this area were taken directly to Bhalagwe after their detention.

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  • They speak from the side that is vociferous in opposition to the war and detention.

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  • The teacher gave the unruly student a caveat; if he continued to misbehave he would end up in detention.

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  • Letting the teen visit a juvenile detention center so that he can see exactly what could happen if he does not straighten up.

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  • Punishments for a teenage delinquent can range from just a metaphorical slap on the wrist to actual jail time in a juvenile detention center.

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  • For Nick Hogan, it means the transfer from a juvenile detention facility to a county jail, where the adults live.

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  • Certainly not the lead quarterback or the fabled bad-boy who spent the entirety of his sixth-grade year in detention.

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  • Be warned, however, that doing any of the following pranks may result in detention!

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  • They exhibit a fierce loyalty to other gang members and are highly resistant to change, even after arrest and detention for gang-related crimes.

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  • Immigration during the war slowed considerably, and during 1918 to 1919, Ellis Island served as a detention center for suspected alien radicals.

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  • The facility did serve in other capacities over the years, including a detention camp during World War II, until it was closed completely in 1954.

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  • The remoteness of the island made it a perfect detention center for enemy merchant seamen captured during World War II.

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  • Starting in 1861, Confederate prisoners and later army-convicts were assigned to the Citadel for detention.

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  • Post-1906 San Francisco Earthquake, many civilian prisoners from the city's jails were transferred to Alcatraz for temporary detention during rebuilding.

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  • Most detention times were a matter of a few days or weeks, but some people were detained from six months to two years in the escape proof detention center.

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  • In the pilot episode, Kris is serving time for grand theft auto at the Camp LaGrange, a juvenile detention facility.

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  • He also works with youth at Georgia's Paulding Detention Center and provides scholarships to single parent families through the Boys and Girls Club.

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  • On the "farm" the city maintains an "infirmary village," a tuberculosis sanatorium, a detention hospital, a convalescent hospital and houses of correction.

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  • The state commission of prisons consists of seven members appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate for a term of four years, and the institutions under its supervision in 1910 were the Sing Sing State Prison,' at Ossining, the Auburn State Prison at Auburn, the Clinton State Prison at Dannemora, the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, the Eastern New York Reformatory at Napanoch, five county penitentiaries, and all other institutions for the detention of sane adults charged with or convicted of crime, or retained as witnesses or debtors.

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  • The society also maintained Beggar Colonies for the compulsory detention of persons committing the offence of begging.

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  • Some five years afterwards Jaubert, after detention and imprisonment on the road, arrived at Teheran and went back to Europe with a duly accredited Persian ambassador, who concluded a treaty with the French emperor at Finkenstein.

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  • After eight months' detention he escaped, but it was not long before he was captured again.

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  • Ministers might even then have taken steps to stop the vessel by directing her detention in any British port to which she resorted for supplies.

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  • Too long, it turns out, for the 49 Labor MPs who defeated the government on its plans for 90-day detention.

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  • The State Penitentiary is at Baton Rouge, and a House of Detention at New Orleans; and there are parish prisons.

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  • The detention was not pursuant to Vietnam 's Customs Code but to an order of a Special Court.

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  • Is it worth getting a detention to talk to a friend in study hall?

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  • Walther is not an historical figure, although the legend undoubtedly represents typical occurrences of the migration period, such as the detention and flight of hostages of noble family from the court of the Huns, and the rescue of captive maidens by abduction.

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  • He was no advocate of violent measures; but, as deputy to the Convention, he voted for the death of Louis XVI., and as a member of the council of legislation he presented to the Convention on the 17th of September 1793 the infamous law permitting the detention of suspects.

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  • In 1871 there had been an agrarian war in Westmeath, and an act had been passed authorizing the arrest of suspected persons and their detention without trial.

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  • A municipal court building, a city jail and a children's detention house, all of stone, were erected, the first in 1912, the others in succeeding years, at a cost of $1,855,000.

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  • The Chinese war arose from the seizure by the Chinese authorities of a small vessel, the Arrow commanded by a British subject, and at one time holding a licence (which, however, had expired at the time of the seizure) from the British superintendent at Hongkong, and the detention of her crew on the charge of piracy.

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