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Example sentences for: detain

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[Independent Counsel Starr uses Tripp to detain Monica.
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.
INS estimates that the cost to enforce the requirement to detain all criminal aliens will be at least $205 million, consisting of $65,284,000 for personnel and nonpersonnel costs of $139,732,000.
The Hispanic agents often come in for special pleading in Spanish and failing that, special abuse, from those they detain.