Isaac Newton

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.

English Mathematician

Kris Kobach

Self-deportation benefits the illegal alien because he can leave without being arrested or detained, and self-deportation benefits the taxpayer because the government doesn't have to spend money arresting the alien, detaining the alien and holding removal hearings.

American Politician

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

So many of our businesses rely on green card holders - how are we supposed to attract these people if they think they'll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding or just to show their baby to relatives?

American Businessman

Otto Schily

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.

German Public Servant

Maria Monk

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

Canadian Celebrity

Peter Ustinov

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

English Actor

Richard Eyre

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

British Director

Walter Savage Landor

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

English Poet

Sibel Edmonds

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

American Public Servant

Used to describe police authority to stop an individual from leaving.

Police Powers

Implies the person will be free to go after some time or conditions are met.

Temporary Situation

Used for unplanned events that cause someone to be late.

Unexpected Delay

Suggests a delay without being forcibly confined or arrested.

Not Imprisonment

Highlights formal or legal power used to retain someone.

Legal Authority

Often discussed in contexts of human rights or legal debates.

Rights Questioned

Specifically refers to a school disciplinary action for students.

School Punishment

Can be used by a teacher to help, not just punish, a student.

Not Always Negative

 to stop the government from brutalizing our clients, but we can't keep tinkering around the edges of the law if we want migrants to be treated humanely. This administration would have you believe that we have to separate families and we have to detain children, because it will stop more refugees from coming to our borders. But we know that this isn't true.

Erika Pinheiro: What's...

 and I know that we can do better. So I decided to focus on using data and analytics to help make the most critical decision in public safety, and that decision is the determination of whether, when someone has been arrested, whether they pose a risk to public safety and should be detained,

Anne Milgram: Why smart...

 They used the police instead of the army. They only detained suspects if they had enough evidence. They held public trials. They even sent liberal imams into the jails to persuade the jihadists that terror is un-Islamic. And all of this paid off in spectacular fashion,

The risky politics of...

 but for the purposes of this conversation, I want to follow up on something you just said, which is both that it's wrong to detain children, and that it's not effective. So the question, then, is why does the administration continue to do it,

A wall won't solve...

 when they're not cabined in by statutes or constitutions, and a writ of habeus corpus is called the Great Writ, capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will. A writ of habeus corpus is issued.

Chimps have feelings and...

 administration into supporting a federal amendment for women's suffrage that will lead to civil disobedience as we sometimes say that will lead to white women suffragists being arrested and detained as political prisoners

Black Women and the...

 The Ministry of Peace is the military. Labor camps are called "Joycamps." Political prisoners are detained and tortured in the Ministry of Love. This deliberate irony is an example of doublespeak,

What "Orwellian" really...

 protects us. Now, with my job, there's above-average amount of risks that are involved. I've been temporarily detained. I've been accused of running a brothel, accused of being a spy.

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 evacuation from our own homes and cities July 2nd 2013 my own father got detained by the Assad regime my mom and my sisters had to flee and leave behind our

The importance of...

 suicide and germany surrenders a week later tim and his crew hand their u-boat over to the japanese and are detained long after peace in europe and asia

Detain

To keep someone from leaving a place.

Often appears as...

To make someone be late or slow.

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To officially prevent someone from leaving a place.

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To keep a student in school after class hours as punishment.

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Police Powers

Temporary Situation

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