Arrest example sentences

It also means that a government or police officer can arrest or detain any citizen unless he has proper legal justification.In this situation, the child's development gets arrested at an earlier stage.The Defence Minister was arrested by the military when he arrived at his office.Because he wished to be arrested, they seemed to believe he was like a king who could do no wrong.The Mughal emperors after Aurangzeb were unable to arrest the gradual shifting of political and economic authority into the hands of provincial governors, local chieftains and other groups.The US army arrested them, interrogated them and decided whether to keep them there or not.The greater part of the peasant insurrections have been linked with outright demands for the return of collectivized stocks of grain, livestock and tools … Between 1st February and 15th March, 25,000 have been arrested … 656 have been executed, 3673 have been imprisoned in labour camps and 5580 exiled …' Report of K.Persons held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because a government considers their ideas, image or activities as a threat to the authority of the state.Police hid in the rafters of the firm's warehouse, and when the suspects entered, they were arrested.Instead, the military put the elected pro-democracy leaders, including Suu Kyi, under house arrest.After he arrived in Canton in the spring of 1839, Lin arrested 1, 600 men involved in the trade, and confiscated 11,000 pounds of opium.Despite being under house arrest, Suu Kyi continued to campaign for democracy.In a swift response, the Military Revolutionary Committee ordered its supporters to seize government offices and arrest ministers.It resisted attempts by workers to run factories and began arresting leaders.Then he took a piece of paper and divided the group into pairs and put down the order in which each pair was to court arrest.