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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
con·fine·ment
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k
uh
n-
fahyn
-m
uh
nt
]
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kənˈfaɪn
mənt
/
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confinement
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Example Sentences
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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