noun
definition
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
Examples of internment in a Sentence
By the end of 1975, the government ended internment.
As a German living in England during World War I, he was sent to a British internment camp, where he rigged the hospital bed springs to create a form of exercise machine.
The second part of the novel moves on three years to the internment camp where Jim has spent the war.
The ATCSA 2001 introduced many extra powers including internment.
He was deposed on April 2 7, and sent to Salonika for internment and safe-keeping; and his successor, as Sultan Murad V., was proclaimed the same day.
Tuesday 19 October 1971 A group of five Northern Ireland Members of Parliament (MPs) began a 48 hour hunger strike against Internment.
Friday 5 December 1975 End of internment The last 46 people who had been interned without trial were released.
Indeed, the present Government repealed the power to reintroduce internment after it came to office in 1997.
Unequivocally, they declared that internment was unacceptable and that the law permitting it must be changed.
Or perhaps now indefinite internment without trial if one happens not to be a British citizen.
Jim himself was on the run from the authorities for 18 months before his eventual capture and subsequent internment in 1941.
Thirty graves were opened at Cymmer Independent Chapel's graveyard, and a mass internment of victims took place on Thursday 17th July.
Visual poetry. link 29th October Peruvian Japanese internment - My Family Story.
Repatriation of Remains Benefit - Covers the cost of returning the person's body to their home for internment or cremation if they happen to die while on their trip.
Any honorably discharged veteran is eligible for internment in Arlington, most frequently in the columbarium.
Since there was no longer a Parliament, or any personal immunity, the military authorities established unlimited police rule, which seemed to be obsessed with terror of its own citizens; anyone who seemed to them suspect was subjected to internment in concentration camps.
In the single internment camp of Arad there were 3,400 deaths among the victims from Bosnia alone; and Father Nikolic, a Catholic priest from Istria, testified to having himself buried over 2,000 Istrian victims, and Doctor Martinovic to a knowledge of 8,000 fatal cases in the Styrian camps.
Under the old Internment Statute of 1789, the Attorney-General was authorized by the President to intern dangerous enemy aliens and by an Act of Congress the Alien Property Custodian assumed charge of enemy aliens' property.