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How to use detainment in a sentence

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Having poleaxed the thug, she sauntered off, leaving the detail of his detainment to two remarkably civic-minded passers-by.
The search resulted in the detainment of three insurgents who remain in custody.
Clearly the police have unique powers of arrest and detainment which no civilian should be able to imitate.
How did the mayor justify the arrest and prolonged detainment of these individuals?
Due to scientific advances in DNA, there is now the opportunity to minimise the detainment of an innocent person.
I spoke against the detainment of political prisoners, so they detained me and made me a political prisoner.
However, the investigation failed to examine whether the detainment was illegal, which unfortunately keeps this allegation contentious.
They have elevated the visibility of the Campaign, because with every arrest and detainment, its news is spread throughout the world.
Search, detainment or arrest of a person is permitted only in cases and under the procedure provided by the law.
Several of the prisoners told us about the extraordinary length of their pre-trial detainment.
Afterward, the police put him in a detainment room for him to sober up and is currently being detained for investigation in accordance to law.
Then on October 27 he was arrested and placed under four months temporary detainment.
Given the detainment of journalists in Libya, will that deter other journalists from heading into dangerous zones?
While many are outraged at the detainment of Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts, not all are shocked.
No fewer than four appeals by detainees have reached the Supreme Court, resulting in significant changes to the detainment regime already.
The review will include, but is not limited to, the sharing of intelligence information, collection of documents and detainment of shipments.
Her detainment seems to have strengthened her determination.
Then came the creation of a detainment camp in an American naval base in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, which Mr Bush argued was beyond the reach of the American courts.
What is worse, we know that, on June 24, the Federal Court confirmed that Omar Khadr's detainment was illegal under international and American law.
The tactics used against them have switched since President Uribe came to power in 2002 from assassination towards arbitrary detainment, according to Novelli.
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By 13th October the detainment of this new Army was in full progress west and south-west of Brussels.
He had been certain what the purpose of the detainment was, and who the inspector would be, yet he had not really been worried.
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