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Example sentences for: detain

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On Thursday, the United States told the Coast Guard to bar Japanese cargo ships from U.S. ports and to detain those already here.
The Hispanic agents often come in for special pleading in Spanish and failing that, special abuse, from those they detain.
In mid-December, President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Ladin lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody.
The CIA worked hard with foreign security services to detain or at least keep an eye on suspected Bin Ladin associates.
For reasons that need not detain us here, some years ago I happened to be visiting the translation section of a large publishing company in darkest Hertfordshire, England, and I became involved in conversation with one of the employees, a charming young French translator.