(n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(2) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(3) He was first allowed to leave Atatürk airport for a Turkish detention camp, before finally being sent to Australia in early June.
(4) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
(5) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(6) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
(7) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
(8) Nauru refugee 'release' shows neither detention nor drawn-out processing were ever necessary | Joyce Chia Read more On Monday the Nauruan government declared “detention had ended” on the island, after a weekend announcement that detainees would be allowed to move freely about the island at all times.
(9) UN spokesman Samir Ghattas said a "strong protest" had been made to Libya about the detention of the official.
(10) Viktoria Vibhakar, a former senior child protection manager on Nauru, said she felt a duty to tell Australians about the abuses occurring at the detention centre.
(11) Those who have committed a crime on British soil can expect to serve their prison sentence, and then be held in a prison-like detention centre with no definite date of release while the UK Border Agency works out how or if they can be deported – a process that can take months, or even years.
(12) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
(13) He is scheduled to return to court on Monday for a detention hearing and will enter a plea on 6 January.
(14) During their detention by Pakistani authorities the women, one of whom was wounded in the Abbottabad raid, were interviewed by American intelligence agencies.
(15) Across all UK immigration detention centres, it reported that the number of incidents of self-harm requiring medical attention more than doubled between 2012 and 2014 from 150 to at least 306.
(16) Werya is so, so important,” Boochani says in a series of interviews from detention.
(17) But defenders of Ihat recall the notorious case of Baha Mousa , an Iraqi who died in British detention, and note that the MoD has paid out £22m in compensation to victims of alleged abuse in Iraq.
(18) They need to close the detention centre down,” she said.
(19) The inquiry report found the Nauru detention centre was not a safe environment for asylum seekers, and called for children to be removed from the centre .
(20) Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick .
Incorruptible
Definition:
(a.) Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible.
(a.) Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
(n.) One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.
(n.) The quality or state of being incorruptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally the importance of fish will not only increase for economic, but certainly also for ecological reasons, because it is well established as an incorruptible bioindicator of our environment.
(2) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(3) "The sharia justice system is swift and incorruptible.
(4) But Mr Putin has ended that disarray and rehabilitated the KGB as the embodiment of the ascetic, incorruptible public service.
(5) Buhari, a tough-talking ex-general with a reputation for incorruptibility, was viewed by many Nigerians as an almost messianic figure who would rescue the country from its kleptocratic ruling elite and crush Boko Haram , the homegrown jihadi group responsible for thousands of deaths in recent years.
(6) To his supporters he is an efficient, tough and incorruptible administrator whose style of economic governance – dubbed " Modinomics " – has worked wonders in Gujarat and can be rolled out across India.
(7) She writes of herself: "Impregnably honest, utterly fearless, incorruptible by the worldly lures which tend to weaken and deflect most reformers, yet sane, scientific and happy, Dr Stopes, hating all conflict, is fighting on behalf of others."
(8) Those super-rich Russians and Chinese – the biggest buyers of investor visas for people committing at least £1m – see a stable political system, an open economy, honest courts and incorruptible officials.
(9) The embassy-provided programme notes described Jiao as “a role model for civil servants with his hardworking, upright, incorruptible personality”.
(10) But after a year in which Boko Haram and government corruption has dominated local headlines, the ex-general has two things going for him: a reputation for strong leadership and incorruptibility.
(11) To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity.” Not a week passes without reference to these statements in the Spanish media: only the other week, the founding editor of the centre-right daily El Mundo sarcastically dubbed Iglesias “The incorruptible senor X” , a reference to Robespierre’s nickname.
(12) Michnik, Lehman said, was "a brave, incorruptible and tolerant Polish rebel who has never tired of speaking out in the European public sphere".
(13) Even his most vicious critics would concede that he is utterly incorruptible; he knows how to handle a global crisis; and he is a genuine devotee of the game.)
(14) But by hollowing out the civil service – historically the only system via which efficient and incorrupt public services were brought into being – this government is set to increase the opportunities for corruption and corporate exploitation of environments chronically prone to market failure while undermining exactly the institutions that might protect the taxpayer.
(15) Glossing over the moderate liberals’ appalling political errors, the standard account traces the Terror to Robespierre’s beliefs: thus emerges the idea that radical democracy, equality and incorruptibility breed violence.
(16) The come-back of a psychopathology of "faculties" linked to the notion of deficiency and reinforced by fascination with computers, also represents the need of humankind to believe in an incorruptible soul.