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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.
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.
[Independent Counsel Starr uses Tripp to detain Monica.
We have assessed this effort to detain aliens of "special interest."
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.