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Example sentences for: detain

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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.
Few tourists make it to this provincial capital, and it isn’t likely to detain you for more than a couple of hours.
By July 3, DCI Tenet had asked about 20 of his counterparts in friendly foreign intelligence services to detain specific al Qaeda members and to generally harass al Qaeda-affiliated cells.
Each focuses on a provincial city of the same or similar name, typically of some interest yet not likely to detain you for longer than a day.
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.