7 sentences with 'custody'
Example sentences and phrases with the word custody and other words derived from it.
• « Luther was quickly placed in the custody of a sympathetic German prince, Frederick the Wise of Saxony, who took him away and allowed him to continue his work writing anti-papal propaganda. »
• « From the 1850s onwards, women across Europe could not vote, could not initiate divorce (in countries where divorce was even possible), could not control custody of children, could not pursue higher education, could not open bank accounts in their own name, could not maintain ownership of property inherited after marriage, could not sue or serve as legal witnesses, and could not maintain control of their own wages if they worked and married. »
• « In some countries, women gained the right to initiate divorce even earlier, along with the right to control their own wages and property and to fight for custody of children. »
• « The Nazi SS had the right to hold anyone indefinitely, without trial, in "protective custody" in a concentration camp, and the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, was only part of the SS. »
• « -Are the child's parents getting divorced? -Is there something shady going on, or is it a custody dispute? // Flores replied that he didn't think it was anything like that, as both parents were desperately looking for the child at the time. »