confinements
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Despite such risks, European governments don’t want to impose lockdowns again – after the successful but gruelling confinements in the spring provoked brutal economic recessions.
He also made the egregious error of releasing Wala and Adalard from their monastic confinements, placing the former in a position of power in the court of Lothair and the latter in a position in his own house.
Spain rules out home confinements for Asturias region.
In the landmark 1975 O'Connor v. Donaldson decision the ACLU represented a non-violent mental health patient who had been confined against his will for 15 years, and persuaded the Supreme Court to rule such involuntary confinements illegal.