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Despite defeat, demoralization, and hardship they converted reservations from jail-like enclaves into micro-homelands where Native children learned the old ways; communal lifestyles and tribal affiliations survived; Indian religions, for decades practiced illegally, survived; many Indian languages survived; reverence for the land survived; efforts to live meaningful lives on their own terms survived.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Despite defeat, demoralization, and hardship they converted reservations from jail-like enclaves into micro-homelands where Native children learned the old ways; communal lifestyles and tribal affiliations survived; Indian religions, for decades practiced illegally, survived; many Indian languages survived; reverence for the land survived; efforts to live meaningful lives on their own terms survived.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

The jail-like controls, opposition groups say, was payback for embarrassing Iran's leaders by urging demonstrations Feb. 14 to show support for the toppling of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt— rebellions Iran's ruling system had already praised.

Reports: Iran uses tear gas to disperse protesters 2011

He had moved her from the jail-like confines of the brownstone back into the mansion with him.

Dirtier Than Ever Vickie M. Stringer 2010

He remained in a jail-like facility under conditions which were tantamount to solitary confinement.

The Mob and Me John Partington 2010

Barbed wire, a jail-like setting, the locked-down facility, a suggestion of not feeding a little girl properly; all the elements for a manufactured controversy are there.

2009 April 26 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

Barbed wire, a jail-like setting, the locked-down facility, a suggestion of not feeding a little girl properly; all the elements for a manufactured controversy are there.

When Toronto Star Articles Backfire « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

Human Rights First released a report in April 2009 that found that the United States had detained thousands of asylum seekers in jails and jail-like facilities for months and sometimes years, often without basic safeguards like hearings to assess the need for continued detention, and at a cost to taxpayers of over $300 million since 2003.

Human Rights First: Necessary Reforms for Detained Asylum Seekers 2009

Unfortunately the Cancun tigers are living in small jail-like cells when they could be playing in the pool and roaming natural habitats with the tigers who live at the sanctuary.

Brett Greene: Experience the Beauty of Exotic Animals in Their Natural Habitat at the Wild Animal Sanctuary 2009

Chicago police captured him in June and charged him with auto theft; he spent the next month in a jail-like juvenile facility.

Death Of A Child Criminal 2008