(n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(2) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
(3) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(4) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(5) The US department of justice is understood to have opened an investigation into the death, and four others in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, following a referral from the CIA.
(6) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
(7) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(8) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
(9) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
(10) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(11) Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers Read more In line with the findings of the royal commission, Cavanagh said the increased number of Indigenous people in custody would likely lead to a proportionate increase in custodial deaths.
(12) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(13) Therefore, no institution can be therapeutic for the patient, since its aim must be his custody and violent destruction.
(14) Leyla Yunus has diabetes and hepatitis C. The health of both Yunuses has gravely deteriorated over the year they’ve already spent in custody.
(15) It is understood that this second callout was in relation to the death in custody.
(16) His client has been in custody since Saturday when he was arrested in connection with the New IRA attack.
(17) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(18) This is evidence that custodial workers as a group have had asbestos exposure in the past, as reflected also in the work histories obtained at the time of examination.
(19) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(20) There are two basic findings from the hospitalization outcome literature: Active treatment is more effective than custodial care, and length-of-stay has little influence on later outcome.
Possession
Definition:
(n.) The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
(n.) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
(n.) The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
(n.) The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.
(v. t.) To invest with property.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that astrocytes possess bradykinin receptors and that these are predominantly of the B2 subtype.
(2) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(3) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(4) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(5) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
(6) The E. coli used did not possess collagenolytic activity nor did a variety of common aerobic clinical isolates.
(7) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(8) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
(9) 2-(4'-Isobutylphenyl)propionic acid, ibuprofen, is an antiinflammatory agent which possesses moderate platelet aggregation inhibitory activity.
(10) Thallium-201, a radiopharmaceutical that possesses many of the characteristics of potassium analogues, at present is receiving the greatest attention as a regional blood flow indicator.
(11) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(12) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.
(13) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(14) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(15) These preliminary experiments suggest that oSm is similar to IGF-I in its binding characteristics and that primary cultures of skeletal muscle satellite cells possess type I and type II IGF receptors.
(16) Acetylcholinesterase is a key enzyme in cholinergic neurotransmission for hydrolyzing acetylcholine and has been shown to possess arylacylamidase activity in addition to esterase activity.
(18) Two group G streptococcal cultures (G 10187, G 11122) with surface antigen T4 possess surface receptors for human haptoglobin (Hp).
(19) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(20) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).