How To Use Arresting In A Sentence

This nifty little thriller opens with the arresting image of a nebbishy accountant being dangled over the side of a bridge.
(How far can he get without a license or credit cards .. or the help of close relations?) opened with testimony from the "jailbird" and his arresting officers Baltimore Crime
The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
The biggest of the ringing bells is three tonnes and an arresting sight as it gracefully arcs round, even if we can't hear it to its full capacity thanks to our bright red ear protectors.
The feeling was that the picture conveyed a joyful and momentous moment in their lives in a way that was arresting and memorable. Times, Sunday Times

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
Produce production can be instrumental in arresting the decline in the number of farms in some rural areas, as well as in providing an alternative to tobacco production.
His aphoristic, rhetorical style, lends itself to statements that sound arresting but often mean very little.
The lean Arctic light, long and horizontal and visually stunning, gives everything a superreal quality of detail that I suppose you might get used to over time, but for now it is arresting. Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel
The only person needing to apologize is the arresting officer. Police group: Obama should apologize
And to add supporting Gingrich into the mix - the self-described "historian" and constitutional champion who also advocates arresting judges who make decisions with which he disagrees and compelling them to defend their decisions in front of congress - well... no... that wouldn't require another name adjustment. News - latimes.com
The refurbished zinc roof forms an arresting contrast with the cream tiled and rendered walls of the main building.
Tanysiptera galatea, the common paradise-kingfisher, is an arresting bird with the unmistakably huge head and the trowel-like beak characteristic of kingfishers generally. The Song of The Dodo
Over the past couple of years, some of the most visually arresting series have hailed from abroad. Times, Sunday Times
His Sweeney is arresting, ominous, darkly humorous, and scary in just the right proportions, and, in the end, thoroughly moving.
So far, so predictable, but its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light.
The performance slides easily between droll comedy and arresting visuals. Times, Sunday Times
The most arresting of these was a frozen landscape of pebbles with raw shrimps and strewn with wild beach plants such as sea arrowgrass, St. John's wort, Portulak and the unfortunately named scurvy-grass. Noma's Spectrum of Flavors
Forget dating agencies and lonely hearts ads, though - the lovelorn lass turned to Britain's new Freedom of Information Act to try to bag an arresting bachelor.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
It's factual but artistic, a truly arresting image. Times, Sunday Times
As Canadians have long suspected, Mounties have been arresting anyone seen with quality Mexican Food since the 1970's. But where some see great risk, you see great reward!
His defense, that the street was nothing but an open sewer anyway, failed to sway the arresting policeman who marched him across town at gunpoint to pay a fine of one piastre four francs. The Path Between the Seas
Having seen the human drama “from a veiled corner,” Du Bois had set about trying to lift the veil of race enough for white people to see—and even to feel—through the medium of arresting language and moral signposts what it was like to be a second class citizen in America, a virtual caste whose pariah status inhered in the inescapability of skin color. DARKWATER
At 70, Robert Wilson has long been a monumental figure in the arts, an interdisciplinary visionary who combines music, the visual, dance, deconstructed language, and arresting stage craft to create mind-expanding theatrical events. Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala
Immigration police last week busted an international drug ring operating out of Naklua, arresting five people, two Thais and three Malaysians.
Perhaps the most arresting part of Get Happy is the section on Garland's late youth and early adulthood.
On the other hand, arresting someone just because they're a pain in the ass is a good way to meet 42 USC 1983 up close and personal. Discourse.net: Deconstructing the Police Report in the Skip Gates Arrest Case
It is arresting that eight of the ten countries that grew quickest in the 25 years before the crash followed five-year plans. Times, Sunday Times
A seaman from the yacht said that on 13 December, he had been removed from the vessel by "two armed men" and brought to a larger group of "30 armed men," who questioned him about the numbers of the arresting party and threatened to "make a Sacrifice of him" if he did not answer truly. Gutenber-e Help Page
When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several.
Police countercharged, arresting some of what they described as a hard core of 500 bent on confrontation. CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007
It is undoubtedly an arresting image. Times, Sunday Times
Having seen the human drama “from a veiled corner,” Du Bois had set about trying to lift the veil of race enough for white people to see—and even to feel—through the medium of arresting language and moral signposts what it was like to be a second class citizen in America, a virtual caste whose pariah status inhered in the inescapability of skin color. DARKWATER
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
The rest of us are aware how low the chances are of actually arresting and convicting anyone for an offence in the first place.
Some resisted and Cromwell himself attacked them, arresting three and executing one.
I feel like taking a baseball bat to the lot of them, although even then I'd probably pick an unfashionable brand of bat, or somehow manage to knock their brains out in a cluelessly passe kind of way – using an underarm swing when the overarm swipe's more "now", perhaps – and everyone would sneer at me, including the arresting officer. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
Police raided the headquarters of a group co-ordinating the protests, arresting dozens of activists and confiscating equipment.
Yet a combination of diplomacy backed by a willingness to provide direct military aid has a chance of arresting the slide. Times, Sunday Times
The only really arresting music is the orchestral interlude depicting a mountain blizzard. Times, Sunday Times
This washhandstand had been made of deal by some one with an excess of turnery appliances in a hurry, who had tried to distract attention from the rough economies of his workmanship by an arresting ornamentation of blobs and bulbs upon the joints and legs. In the Days of the Comet
The police need to be careful who they are arresting. The Sun
Obama: Cops ‘acted stupidly’ in arresting Harvard prof Oh *shit* son
Mercury's effectiveness in arresting the progress of syphilis is debatable, but clearly it had terrible side effects.
He shoots sympathetically, an arresting contrast with the extreme situations pictured.
My pilot finally figured out that the arresting gear was for overruns only, so we decided to skip the arrested landing and concentrate on finding the runway.
Inspired, however, by the spirit of hereditary obstinacy, Charles preferred a useless resistance to a dignified submission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and sending him to close confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to the place of his destination. Redgauntlet
As the wheels touched steel he shoved the throttles forward; if his tail-hook missed the arresting wire, he needed full power for a "bolter" -- a touch-and-go that would send him off the forward deck and around for a second pass. Carrie
President Obama said 'the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody.' CNN Poll: Did Obama act stupidly in Gates arrest comments?
From 1 April the police will no longer need to establish that a man is "persistently" kerb-crawling before arresting him. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
The BMW was about to be placed on a low-loader and the officers were in the process of arresting the suspect.
There's something about blocks of text, with odd patterns and traceries running through it, that is visually arresting.
Would the advocates back off if police brought vagrant lawbreakers to shelters instead of arresting them?
But it has some of the most arresting images in the festival this year. Times, Sunday Times
Let us suspend, by any means, the activity of the encephalic mass, by arresting the circulation of the blood for example, and the psychic function is at once inhibited. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
We tried to estimate 2,000 feet but couldn't break out any distinguishing arresting-gear markers.
He was an arresting figure - tall, bald, and white-bearded in a day when beards were scarcely ever seen.
After creating a disturbance in the Shopping Center, two desperados were retrieved from the jungle by arresting officers.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
Until then, the list of leaches will never diminish. on March 25, 2009 at 12: 32 pm | Reply Joseph K. IG would there not be a detection for a Met copper in arresting Mcnumpty, Smith, Conway or Jowell (read the PoCA s327-9). Tony McNulty ’second home’ shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The court heard that the officer was in the process of arresting the defendant when he pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the abdomen.
The two arresting pieces had the musicians seated on the floor, firstly to play with sticks on large, narrow - "waisted", two-faced drums. The Hindu - Front Page
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
But trying to protect sponsors by arresting people who turn up in the wrong T-shirt is like a government trying to censor the internet. Times, Sunday Times
The opening line is humorous, touching,and declamatory at one and the same time, its pentameter rhythm sedate and arresting.
Arresting in their circularity, these poems achieve a primeval force that is like some great lost original rhythm.
Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with fortune tellers and soothsayers?
The constable had reasonable grounds for arresting her.
The Germans did as they pleased, suppressing opponents and arresting anyone who spoke out against them.
In one of the most arresting scenes in the film we see Szpilman miming the piano with his hands hovering over the keys in order to not make a sound and be detected.
Méret is arguably the most arresting figure of all, especially since her responses to the rise and fall of the Nazis become the book's sobering theme. Review of "A Lily of the Field," a thriller by John Lawton
Photo: Reuters The Obama administration denied Mr. Hekmati worked for the CIA and criticized Tehran for what it called a pattern of arresting innocent people for political reasons. Iran Sentences Ex-Marine to Death
Despite a lifestyle stripped to the bare essentials, they are also some of the most visually arresting animals in the desert.
After watching seven performers perform, police busted a sex show in North Pattaya, arresting all seven performers and the venue's manager.
The cadenza's fugal opening was arresting, followed by Beethovenian drama and power.
One would assume that Mills, coming from the progressive, underground garage movement, would buttress his raps with arresting beats.
Police reveals, this probably is blastophore commit an offence, currently, the police is pursuing and arresting other suspects.
In this arresting poem, she describes treeing a raccoon at night and capturing it on film.
On his election as prime minister, Aznar engaged a policy of repression towards ETA, arresting its leaders and main supporters.
The UK is wrong in arresting this objectionable idiot. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
“I tell you what sarge, I fancy driving down to that there big London and arresting those fraudsters in the House of Commons” Police Investigate MP’s Expenses « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
John D: The UK is wrong in arresting this objectionable idiot. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
After learning thatblogging is a serious crime in Egypt andthat speaking up for others is something that warrants punishment, state security officials are now arresting bloggers who do not moderate comments on their blog posts! Global Voices in English » Egypt: Bad Boys Who do not Moderate Blog Comments
The melodies could sometimes be stronger, but King's lyrics and delivery convey an arresting spectrum of ambivalent emotions.
Procuratory powers include the powers of arresting , prosecuting, inspecting and supervising of the prosecution.
John 18 implies that a Roman tribune (or maybe even Pilate, but there is no evidence for this) ordered part of his cohort to accompany the chief priests and the Pharisees in arresting Jesus on Thursday.
Last summer the President made an unforced error, attacking the Cambridge police Department for what he characterized as behaving stupidly in arresting Harvard Professor Gates. American Thinker
The strange but arresting creatures become instant celebrities.
Add to this a splash of bright colour and the result is nothing short of arresting.
There was a week left in the season, and football is arresting the city's attention in the way Richardson always wished it would.
God's method of arresting the flood and making its waters subside is poetically called a "rebuke" (Ps 76: 6; Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Meanwhile, the police have shown no delay in arresting peaceful protesters. Times, Sunday Times
Police and court time and resources should be directed towards the rape and other violence which women report, not wasted on arresting and prosecuting those engaged in consenting sex. The Police, the DA and SAGE: A lucrative partnership « Bound, Not Gagged
His face is arresting up close; arched eyebrows and a bulbous nose combine to produce an irregular handsomeness.
But trying to protect sponsors by arresting people who turn up in the wrong T-shirt is like a government trying to censor the internet. Times, Sunday Times
Our contemporary mind having once for all grasped the possibility of a more intimate _Weltanschauung_, the only opinions quite worthy of arresting our attention will fall within the general scope of what may roughly be called the pantheistic field of vision, the vision of God as the indwelling divine rather than the external creator, and of human life as part and parcel of that deep reality. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
In addition to the arresting song of the sila languet, the crescendoingmutter-mutter of colusai climbers filtered in from outside. Flinx's Folly
Meanwhile, the police have shown no delay in arresting peaceful protesters. Times, Sunday Times
Or, failing that humane step, eliminate the jobs for undocumented workers by toughening the law on hiring - and arresting employers who violate the law.
The arresting officer got my coat off the peg and draped it over my shoulders. SNOWJOB
We strongly recommend Sgt. James Crowley, of Cambridge Police, for his impeccable bravery in arresting a cane wieldin 'African American sexagenarian, for a purple heart equivalent medal. thank you Monti Obama to award Medal of Honor
It's all a bit weird, yet visually arresting. Times, Sunday Times
It is the most arresting of images. Times, Sunday Times
Examples elsewhere might be less arresting, but not by much. The Times Literary Supplement
The air vehicle can land on a regular runway, grassy strip or highway using arresting cables.
The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
Green's presence is arresting, to be sure, although her chief contribution comes in the form of seductive, baleful, or haunted glaring, which makes her a perfect complement for Bloom's Balian.
In a prime time news conference last month, Obama said "the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. CNN Poll: Did Obama act stupidly in Gates arrest comments?
In those circumstances, the police officers were not justified in arresting the bailiff on the ground that he declined to accede to their request that he should leave the building he had lawfully entered.
Cloaked in Braemar purple felt, surrounded by five large candles and guarded at each corner by an officer of the Household Cavalry in full dress uniform, the catafalque was yesterday afternoon an arresting sight.
But trying to protect sponsors by arresting people who turn up in the wrong T-shirt is like a government trying to censor the internet. Times, Sunday Times
A few moments of faulty tuning and uneven articulation aside (not to be confused with the pungent harmonies and piquant effects written into this music), the ensemble's two instrumentalists -- medieval-harpist Constance Whiteside (the group's artistic director) and violinist Craig Resta, who played here on the arrestingly throaty precursor to the violin, the medieval vielle -- both did sterling and vividly atmospheric work. Armonia Nova's arresting concert of early music at St. Mark's, Capitol Hill
Despite a lifestyle stripped to the bare essentials, they are also some of the most visually arresting animals in the desert.
Jersey tiger moths are feeding on flowers in the daytime and are a very arresting sight. Times, Sunday Times
Amos has kept the tracks light and airy, enhancing the always-attractive melodies with carefully layered vocal arrangements and often applying an arresting twist of processed funkiness.
Good to see that Australia has succeeded after a long chase in arresting another ship poaching in its fisheries.
You do not display an angry attitude, you do not yell at the officer, you do not be incompliant, and you make sure that even if you think that they are in the wrong for arresting you in no way should you resist arrest! Ryan Mack: What I Hope We Learn from the Heather Ellis Case
Apparently free-flowing, deceptively indisciplined and associative, this is one of the book's most experimental and, as a result, arresting pieces. The Times Literary Supplement
If it is true, as Yeats said, that ‘in dreams begins responsibility,’ what remains to be established in Ball's work is a sense of what responsibilities his luminous, arresting, uncanny dreamscapes call the reader toward.
She found the arresting officer but because he was in a room full of Germans was unable to make her approach. Times, Sunday Times
But trying to protect sponsors by arresting people who turn up in the wrong T-shirt is like a government trying to censor the internet. Times, Sunday Times
The police need to be careful who they are arresting. The Sun
Our defensive system achieved this, but failed to complete the job with the apparently minor detail of arresting the attacker's forward progress.
(Equally, we might also suspect that the thug’s arresting officer dished out his own form of summary justice before chummy is bundled into the van - I know YOU have never heard of it, but it happens - but if there is no evidence of that …) Hang On A Minute…….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
There was a shredder on the page with them that kept arresting Rowena's attention; it seemed comparable to the old shredder, and was not very expensive.
Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
The police blundered badly by arresting the wrong man.
Kudos to President Tadic of Serbia for arresting him.
Somehow, it manages to be funny and visually arresting, too. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most arresting pictures is Karl Benjamin's 1957 oil-on-linen "Small Planes: White, Blue, and Pink," whose multiple tetragonal shapes look like boxes that have been mounted, or spread, but simultaneously seem to float weightlessly on the picture plane. What Postwar California Gave to Art, Design and Culture
It was true she was not pretty; her eyes bulged, and her features were overlarge for her oval face, but there was something arresting about the look of her. Exit the Actress
Too often, the descriptions are imprecise, perhaps because of Johnson's overzealous desire to unleash sequence after sequence of arresting images, even if it means lulling us into uncertainty.
The rest appears as heat, which, above a certain temperature, risks killing the yeast and therefore arresting the fermentation process.
It was hard to believe that the man responsible for some of the theatre's most arresting stage moments, not to mention the baroque decoration of the foyer and the cool elegance of the posters and programmes, could be a quitter.
While police were stumped in their investigation, they got lucky after arresting John for shoplifting.
Despite a lifestyle stripped to the bare essentials, they are also some of the most visually arresting animals in the desert.
If a conductor's ultimate unteachable gift is the ability to galvanize an orchestra through body language, eye contact, and an arresting physical presence, this wired-up musician definitely has a major future.
He has a rather different sort of voice, just as well-schooled but with a juicier, more plangent tone that he uses to achieve the expressive effects and vocal colors that make his style so arresting.
Now, first of all, the concept of cutting off (and eating) mermaid tails is wildly arresting. Little Vampire (and Other Little Folk)
The bitonal opening of the quartet is arresting, with first violin playing the opening theme in C# over a drone chord of C major in the three accompanying instruments.
The feeling was that the picture conveyed a joyful and momentous moment in their lives in a way that was arresting and memorable. Times, Sunday Times
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The latter, especially the external pair, carry blood from the face and are subject abnormally to the will: the late lamented Mr. Charley Peace, who murdered and "burgled" once too often, could darken his complexion and even change it by arresting jugular circulation. Arabian nights. English
The value of the proverb in arresting readers' attention has been fully realised by newspaper editors; widespread and common proverbs are frequently used, particularly for headlines.
The arresting officers and paramedics appeared to be in no hurry to revive him, critics said. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most arresting images in this exhibition is the stricken face of a young woman.
This rum is a different animal — strong and arresting. Sweet Home Louisiana
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
His book has many insightful and provocative observations, as well as arresting formulations by a gifted writer. The Times Literary Supplement
The bitonal opening of the quartet is arresting, with first violin playing the opening theme in C# over a drone chord of C major in the three accompanying instruments.
Revitalised and re-energised, the contest is now a mishmash of arresting questions, hot competitions, and more.
Dame Stella has once again distilled her experience as the first woman Director General of MI5 into a spy novel of arresting psychological complexity and unflagging suspense. Illegal Action by Stella Rimington: Book summary
They tell us of the boundless license of disinherison in which the heads of families instantly began to indulge, of the scandal and injury to public morals which the new practices engendered, and of the applause of all good men which hailed the courage of the Prætor in arresting the progress of paternal depravity. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
Germain's novel opens with the arresting image of Sabine, a middle-class mother concealing a rug impulsively stolen from the Christmas sales: "Her silhouette large and bell-like, her legs like two clappers which despite their brisk to-and-fro produce no sound". Hidden Lives by Sylvie Germain, translated by Mike Mitchell – review
The intentionally boxy, stilted animation is arresting at first, until one is distracted by the content of the show itself.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
But to me the most arresting part of Jo'burg is the huge piles of slag which surround and ring the city. By Jet to Jo'burg
In the southern city of Assiut, eyewitnesses said riot police set upon some 100 activists staging an anti-government protest Wednesday, beating them up with batons and arresting nearly half of them. Egypt Protests: Photos Of The Clashes
As a playfully arresting meditation on free will, religion and academia it works too. Times, Sunday Times
The strings and the continuo lutes had a fiercely tart and tangy sound, deliberately unsensual and arresting. The Sad Tale It Tells Is Myth; Its Joys, Real
CNN reports that it contacted a police commander who had a vague recollection of arresting him.
But the most arresting sight was not the bling. Times, Sunday Times
The arresting features of the building as visitors arrive are the new entrance, a new grand stairwell and the development of a central atrium with skylight.
Stuyvesant responded by laying hands on To bias Feake, who delivered the document, arresting and eventually banishing him.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
Together we made an arresting sight! The Sun
an arresting drawing of people turning into animals
Chunhyang is never anything less than stunning, with vibrant colors and dynamic compositions consistently arresting our attention.
She was rough-handled by an arresting officer, held in two different jails for a total of 14 hours, being released onto the mean streets of Philly, locked out of the "roundhouse" police station, in the dark, at 5 AM without even the opportunity to first turn on her cell phone to call for a ride home. OpEdNews Reporter Arrested While Photographing Protest
The arresting mirror from Milan shows the Italian rococo at its most lively, with scrollwork rising detached from the bottom of the frame, to converge in a vortex in time cresting.
Its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light.
The FBI, for instance, follows lower-level drug smugglers instead of arresting them all the time, but if they see one of them stuff someone in a trunk, the jig is up and they pull over the car. Matthew Yglesias » The Politics of Terror
Submerged and sublimated, they will periodically push their way up through the conscious surface as unquenched animal desires, inexplicable tendencies, arresting visions and relentless dreams.
He does so, prompting the linesman to semaphore the word ‘offside’ with his arresting flag.
Material kept in these environments, even if partly protected, is still susceptible to exterior forces, and the replacement of originals with copies is one way of arresting further deterioration.
The refurbished zinc roof forms an arresting contrast with the cream tiled and rendered walls of the main building.
Combined with a fetching ensemble of white leather belts and straps, the effect is arresting.
There was evidently some object which was arresting the passengers and forming them into a knot.
In the southern city of Assiut, witnesses said riot police set upon some 100 activists, beating them with batons and arresting nearly half of them. Egypt's protests continue, ominous for regime
I have wondered, for instance, whether it is more a sense of brushstroke rather than verbal felicity that makes for some of the most arresting imagery in the lyric poems of David Campbell or the meditative poems of Robert Gray.
The gritty pulp atmosphere, expressed through the severely limited palette, as well as the Gilliamesque portmanteau technology, makes Detective Story one of the most visually arresting films I've seen this year.
But arresting lawbreakers and bringing them to trial in Australian courts is one thing.
The lieutenant said Avila suddenly removed her urostomy bag and threw it at the three arresting officers, who were splashed with urine. Woman Throws Bag Of Urine At Police Officers
Anne endeavoured to reduce the Parliament to obediance by arresting and imprisoning two members; but the Parisians rose in tumult, and she was forced to yield the captives, but resolved on revenge. A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
Having seen the human drama “from a veiled corner,” Du Bois had set about trying to lift the veil of race enough for white people to see—and even to feel—through the medium of arresting language and moral signposts what it was like to be a second class citizen in America, a virtual caste whose pariah status inhered in the inescapability of skin color. DARKWATER
The judge admonished the arresting officer for mishandling the arrest. Houston Chronicle
The surrounding landscape is a mosaic of blue, white and pink soft corals, punctuated by arresting gorgonians, some exceeding 2m.
Not arresting an elderly gent from the punjab who is walking down the road with a sword is again, all in good spirit. Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
It often happens, however, during the first critical epoch, which is isochronal with the technical educational period of a girl, that after a few occasions of catamenial hemorrhage, moderate perhaps but still hemorrhage, which are not heeded, the conservative force of Nature steps in, and saves the blood by arresting the function. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls
Britain has been keen for Kabul to begin arresting top drug smugglers in its ranks. Times, Sunday Times
The arresting officer was obliged to carry or drag her to his police cruiser and a female colleague was dispatched to the scene to assist him.
His comrades have revived old practices of harassing and arresting journalists, academics, human rights activists, and nonofficial religious leaders.
They began their raids last year by arresting a prominent sokaiya, or corporate racketeer, who extorted large amounts of cash and stock by threatening to reveal dirt on top institutions, including Daichi Kangyo Bank and Nomura Securities. Mighty Fall
The feeling was that the picture conveyed a joyful and momentous moment in their lives in a way that was arresting and memorable. Times, Sunday Times
The most arresting display we have seen on our footslog around the footstreets belongs to the festively titled Snow Home on Gillygate.
Nor has it commenced legal proceedings in England to secure its underlying claim by arresting a ship here or to enforce the arbitration award.
Yet a combination of diplomacy backed by a willingness to provide direct military aid has a chance of arresting the slide. Times, Sunday Times
Given the factual circumstances, Mr Maguire's submission that the respondents acted unlawfully in arresting him for breach of the peace is not accepted.

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