8 example sentences using custody.
Custody used in a sentence
Custody in a sentence as a noun
This is true both while in custody and during the entire term of his Supervised Release.
If you give custody of cash-equivalents to a startup, you should be doing it with that in mind.
In the 1970s, when I lived in Milwaukee, I remember repeated news stories about black men who were arrested and died in custody.
Whilst in custody with the other criminals, I had a very agreeable sense of irresponsibility, rather like being back at school.
There is a risk, but people desiring to exploit the current situation will have to redo our work, both the data collection and the calculation, as we have put our data under custody.
What does "standing by" mean?What does "whatever we can" mean?Why did you say yesterday there is a suspect in custody if the victim claims the suspect was released a month ago?Do you think it's a problem that we have to parse your words so carefully now?
Look at the news in places like UK, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Canada: people "spontaneously" die in police custody, are killed in the street while unarmed, spend years in jail for crimes they didn't commit, spend months in custody before even being accused of anything... and these are just the ones we hear about.
Forget innocent until proven guilty, we are months away from any trial, only 3 of the 12 defendants are even in custody, yet domains have been seized and businesses destroyed by an 11-point case filing, of which only 2 or 3 points may ever get to trialIf the site owners are found guilty, they could be facing decades in jail.
Custody definitions
a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police"
See also: detention detainment hold
holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody"
(with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children"
See also: hands