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How to use the word apprehend in a Sentence?

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They were not there to serve and protect, or even to apprehend ; they were there to punish and dominate.

Steve Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The majority of UC are cared for through a network of state licensed ORR-funded care providers, most of which are located close to areas where immigration officials apprehend large numbers of children. These provider facilities are state licensed and must meet ORR requirements to ensure a high level of quality of care. Care providers operate under cooperative agreements and contract.

Xavier Becerra

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Sadly, this sort of consequence-free murder of people in the name of avenging' blasphemy' has been going on for far too long in the North. This must stop ! the monsters in that video are easily identifiable. The Sokoto State government must immediately apprehend them and make an example of them. If The Sokoto State government doesn't happen, this kind of murderous barbarism will continue.

Farooq Kperogi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody should be subjected to hateful violence on the streets of New York, we must do everything in our power to help authorities identify and apprehend those responsible, and we must also work together in order to prevent these incidents from occurring in the first place.

Scott Richman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We must do everything in our power to help authorities identify and apprehend those responsible, and we must also work together in order to prevent these incidents from occurring in the first place, we deserve a safer and more accepting city for all New Yorkers.

Scott Richman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our police department worked diligently to find and apprehend the suspect of this terrible crime. It's tragic when these types of events happen, especially to the most innocent.

Jerry Weiers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We must never create disincentives for crime victims to cooperate with police, and if it’s true that DNA collected from a rape or sexual assault victim has been used by SFPD to identify and apprehend that person as a suspect in another crime, I’m committed to ending the practice.

Chief Bill Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you apprehend a criminal after one offense that would have committed five, you have actually prevented crime.

Eric Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once it is completed, it will have multiple detection devices, people we apprehend will be charged with trespassing to the state of Texas, and those charges will lead to them going to jail.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Smash-and-grab mobs are an affront to the hard work and safety of shoppers, retail workers and shopkeepers throughout the region, the expanded investment in license plate reader cameras add to the larger tool set law enforcement uses to apprehend organized burglary rings.

Sam Liccardo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our player, who is in St. Louis for our rookie camp, is safe as local authorities work to apprehend the suspect, we will have no further comment at this time.

Bruce Bennett/Pool via AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From where I sit, I think there was a monumental failure of analysis, internationally, i think people failed to apprehend the complex nature of Ethiopia's transition, especially they failed to appreciate also the complex side of Abiy, that he was not all this sunny, smiling guy. That beneath was a much more calculating, and even Machiavellian figure, who eventually will I think push the country towards a much more dangerous path.

Rashid Abdi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm glad they were able to apprehend them before I was able to because I'm a licensed concealed weapon carrier and if one of them moved inside of my residence I probably would have taken more action.

Morris West

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They were able to apprehend the suspect in the downtown area.

Columbus Police

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is still early in this investigation, and I ask everyone to give the detectives time to do their important work before drawing conclusions about what took place, if anyone can provide information about this case, I ask them to please reach out to our detectives. This violence is completely unacceptable and we are working diligently to find and apprehend the individual or individuals responsible.

Chuck Lovell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Regardless of the verdicts in the case, Philippine authorities need to apprehend the several dozen suspects still at large.

Human Rights Watch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I thank the officers who bravely responded to apprehend the suspect, and I assure you that the state of Texas is committed to bringing this killer to justice.

Greg Abbott

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This tragic loss is a grave reminder of the risks that our law enforcement officers face every single day, i thank the officers who bravely responded to apprehend the suspect, and I assure you that the state of Texas is committed to bringing this killer to justice.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.

Daniel Webster

added by Normando
4 years ago

Violence engenders more violence, i think the duty of the police officer is to catch, apprehend and for the justice to judge.

Dos Santos

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Mexico has been absolutely terrific in the past four days. they're apprehending everybody. Yesterday they apprehended 1,400 people. The day before it was a thousand. And if they apprehend people at their southern border, that's a big home run.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The problem with the statement that youre apprehending 80 or 90 percent of drugs at ports of entry -- thats like saying you apprehend most contraband at TSA checkpoints at airports, you apprehend the contraband there because thats where you have the people, the screeners. I assure you if we had screeners of that same density across every single inch and mile of the southern border, youd have more drugs interdicted in those areas.

Stephen Miller

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When Congress in 1996 enacted sweeping immigration enforcement legislation — putting in place the expedited removal system that today allows Border Patrol agents to quickly deport people Border Patrol agents apprehend without any court process — it specifically created the credible fear process to preserve the right of people to seek asylum when they are apprehended between the ports of entry, congress did that knowing that if it circumscribed the right to seek protection, then it would run afoul of our obligations under Tom Jawetz and international law to not return people to face persecution abroad. The interim final rule issued today acknowledges this history even as it attempts to undo it entirely.

Tom Jawetz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This was a very proactive investigation. We had a joint task force in place along with SFPD to apprehend the suspect.

Alex Bastian

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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