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How to use the word internment in a Sentence?

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Repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of Israel of ‘genocide,' ‘apartheid,' and other fictitious crimes while praising China, a country that is putting Muslims in internment camps, indicates an irrational hatred of Jews and not a concern for human rights, with regards to Jews, diversity heads seem to share much in common with grand wizards of the Ku Klux Klan, and it is clear that the entire field needs to be reevaluated before more Jewish students are placed at unnecessary risk.

Yaakov Menken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must teach both our triumphs and our mistakes, whether it’s enslavement, Japanese internment or the treatment of those with disabilities.

Maggie Hassan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Chinese government has detained more than one million people in as many as 1200 state-run internment camps throughout Xinjiang, many detainees are subjected to physical violence, sexual abuse, and torture to induce them to work producing apparel, electronics, solar equipment, agricultural products.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is unethical to continue investing there, you can't do business with a country that has internment camps, especially when you know there is a camp in that region.

Nyrola Elimä

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Amid growing international condemnation, the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the United States reiterates The United States calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Donald Trump and the United States Olympic Committee should jointly announce that the American delegation will boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics unless Xinjiang's internment camps are shuttered and subsequently demolished.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

With' Allegiance,' George used the vocabulary of musical theater to tell the story of the whole spectrum of emotions of the internment, i felt like George would be familiar and receptive to that [ horror ] approach to telling the story, because it's a style of storytelling that, hopefully, allows you to access the emotions of the characters involved.

Alexander Woo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

George is probably the most notable living person who has lived through the internment, and he's a working actor in our business, it seemed insane not to have him involved in the show. So I got up the courage to approach him.

Alexander Woo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When it catches them, it sends them back (to North Korea), where they face torture, internment in a labor camp and sometimes death.

Lee Yumi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

History teaches us the unfortunate lesson that cultural values supplant constitutional rights whenever the cultural elite consider a right too burdensome to suit the needs of the moment. The outlandish pronouncement in Dred Scott 'that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit,' the shameful court-approved internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the separate but equal doctrine that officially existed until 1954 are all examples of the evils that result when cultural values are given more weight than constitutional rights.

Robert Dowlut

added by anonymous
4 years ago

They're terrified. They don't know what to do. They don't necessarily want to declare asylum in United States because that reflects badly on their family, but they've also gotten messages from the region that they shouldn't come back because they'll definitely be put in one of these internment camps.

Sean Roberts

Found on CNN
5 years ago

At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people, in the 20th century, more broader questions were litigated under the 14th Amendment, like Brown v. Board of Education -- whether segregation was constitutional. Cases involving the internment of Japanese citizens, case from the marriage equality decisions, even Roe vs. Wade have strains of equal protection language and invoke due process law.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What we’ve seen across the world — in Mexico and Southeast Asia and China — is that ‘treatment centers’ that are mandated can effectively turn into internment camps.

Dan Werb

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Yay, no more baby internment camps.

Samantha Bee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Yesterday Donald Trump was putting children in internment camps, and today Donald Trump's putting families in internment camps. We think both things are wrong.

Kevin Mack

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We should be able to agree that we will not keep kids in child internment camps indefinitely and hidden away from public view. What country is that? This is the United States of America!.

Elijah Cummings

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is racial stereotyping. Does he greet others in their ancestral language ? this mentality led to a period in American history that saw 120,000 men, women and children, including my grandfathers, sent to internment camps after World War II.

Colleen Hanabusa

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The war and the internment camps changed everybody’s future direction. And I think in Takayo’s case, it turned out magnificently.

Robin Gee

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We have politicians talking about internment camps, but when we talk about comprehensive immigration reform, we have people running for office based on the fact they want to put illegal or undocumented folks into camps.

David Bowers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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