arbitrary arrest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarbitraryandarrest
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arbitrary
adjective
uk/ˈɑː.bɪ.trər.i/us/ˈɑːr.bə.trer.i/
based on chance rather than being planned or based ...
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arrest
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈrest/us/əˈrest/
the act of ...
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(Definition ofarbitraryandarrestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Hisarbitraryarrest, together with the calumnies and evidence fabricated against him, had helped to forge the revolutionary.
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In addition, we have heard of several cases of thearbitraryarrestof human rights activists.
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When the aliens do get into the country, they are subject toarbitraryarrestwithout charge and without explanation.
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Here we are providing for the arbitrary sentence of exile, for an arbitrary sentence of detention and forarbitraryarrest.
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Primary among those freedoms is the freedom to live without fear ofarbitraryarrestand imprisonment.
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It does not include any safeguards againstarbitraryarrest.
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Many have not received fair trials afterarbitraryarrest.
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The special rapporteur says thatarbitraryarrestand detention are widespread.
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Fans on their way out of the country will encounter a system ofarbitraryarrestand will have no means of preventing it.
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We must, therefore, while struggling against the paramilitaries of both sides, protect all innocent people fromarbitraryarrestand harassment.
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Is it mot time that comparatively junior officers had these powers ofarbitraryarrestwithdrawn from them?
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None the less, that man, while he is here, is subject toarbitraryarreston a charge which need not be given to him.
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We must be protected fromarbitraryarrestor detention and be accorded the due process of law.
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Arbitraryarrestand arbitrary imprisonment are becoming more and more acceptable as a permanent part of our lives.
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One of the safeguards againstarbitraryarrestand detention is that bit of paper.
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That includes the right to liberty, noarbitraryarrestby police, the right to fair trial, the right to education, to property and so on.
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There is also the position of religious minorities and journalists, who have been subject to restrictions on freedom of expression,arbitraryarrestand worse.
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He, as many of us do, regretted such things asarbitraryarrestand detention without trial.
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Yet here we provide powers ofarbitraryarrestand of arbitrary and undefined imprisonment.
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To the man whose only home is this country deportation is exile; it isarbitraryarrestand arbitrary detention.
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