hold in custody
Example Sentences
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Alternatives to Detention program, which is supposed to monitor noncitizens who are facing deportation cases but whom the government decided it doesn’t want to hold in custody.
From Washington Times • Dec. 8, 2022
The bill also sets out police powers to arrest, hold in custody and question suspects.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2015
But the power to hold in custody is utterly nugatory, if there be no power to take into custody.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
The messenger I hold in custody Until to-morrow night.
From Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts by Bithell, Jethro
