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Main Entry:	con·fine·ment [kuhn-fahyn-muhnt] /kənˈfaɪnmənt/ Show Spelled
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Some of the problems with giant confinement systems are obvious.

The alternatives to over-structured activity are confinement in an apartment or playing in traffic.

Some say the stress of confinement can turn them violent.

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Some of the problems with giant confinement systems are obvious.

The alternatives to over-structured activity are confinement in an apartment or playing in traffic.

Some say the stress of confinement can turn them violent.

Three volunteers agree to spend a week in solitary confinement.

Confinement alone doesn't mean an animal is automatically worse off.

It's all done without government subsidies, cost-sharing, nutrient management plans or confinement livestock systems.

Manning was held in highly restrictive pretrial confinement.

They were disproportionately held in disciplinary lockdown and often in solitary confinement.

Some told harrowing tales of their confinement for weeks under heavy artillery fire.

Organic standards forbid the continuous confinement of beef cattle on feedlots.

In prisons, solitary confinement is used as punishment.

Manning has been held in highly restrictive pretrial confinement.

No other corrective or coercive techniques can be used while a detainee is in cramped confinement.

Despite prison crowding, punitive use of solitary confinement appears to have grown more common.

They are lean athletes that take confinement in stride, waiting for the next chance to run.

Factory farming means raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density.

Many companies are getting around cubicle confinement problems by ditching the cube entirely.

No system of confinement and death for animals is or could ever be humane.

They received three-year sentences for minor offences of abduction and wrongful confinement.

Doing so would clearly get us two years in solitary confinement.

Missouri recently made it a crime to knowingly release pigs from confinement.

He was ultimately sentenced to six months home confinement at his parents' house and two years of probation.

When they need police to keep the peace you know this is forcible confinement.

By far the biggest problem is the close confinement of animals on factory farms.

Solitary confinement has been transmuted from an occasional tool of discipline into a widespread form of preventive detention.

Long term solitary confinement is considered by many to be a form of torture.

For those readers who have been in solitary confinement for the last decade,.

Readers respond to a recent editorial about solitary confinement in prisons.

The prison mental health bill would in fact outlaw solitary confinement for those with serious mental illnesses.

Furthermore such developments could help along inertial confinement fusion research for energy production and vice versa.

Solitary confinement is necessary to prevent a careless researcher from unleashing the enemy.

Perry suggests that dogs should be impounded and confined at another site to insure compliance with the confinement period.

But the chains and solitary confinement do seem a bit excessive.

Kimes's desire to have his time in solitary confinement reduced apparently played a role in his decision to speak with.

Iron cages for the confinement of offenders were long ago included among the favorite devices of human cruelty.

Ohio farmers agreed to phase out confinement of livestock, underscoring the clout of the animal welfare movement.

The mental health bill would ban disciplinary confinement for the seriously mentally ill.

In recent years, the number of such buildings has increased with the release from confinement of large numbers of mental patients.

She said the confinement had lasted two to three months.

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