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219 examples of Imprisonment in a sentence
During his imprisonment, he becomes lifelong friends with an equally famous treasury forger named Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman).
Miranda was convicted of rape and kidnapping and sentenced to 20 to 30 years
imprisonment
on each charge, with sentences to run concurrently.
The killer is caught and sentenced to life
imprisonment
and the ride is closed down.
And the judge decided to impose life
imprisonment
but for first degree murder it could have been the death penalty.
Targeted repression,
imprisonment
of opposition leaders, press censorship, shortages, inflation, and wanton violence – Caracas is one the world’s most dangerous cities – have created a situation that appears untenable in the medium term.
Of those, 280 were commuted to life imprisonment, with many of the other cases likely to remain in limbo for decades.
Moreover, it has been suggested that the alternative to the death penalty – life
imprisonment
– would make India vulnerable to hijackings and other assaults by terrorist groups attempting to free their jailed comrades.
In countries like Nigeria, where anti-homosexuality legislation has recently been approved, those following the WHO’s new PrEP guidelines could find themselves subject to
imprisonment.
Penalties for cannabis possession range from none (for example, the Netherlands and Portugal) to legal warnings, fines, and even life
imprisonment
(Southeast Asia).
Craxi, of course, later found refuge in the embrace of another recently fallen Arab dictator, Tunisia’s Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, when he fled Italy to escape
imprisonment
in 1992.
At that time, a couple of colleagues and I responded to the
imprisonment
of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s members, as well as other disidenty, by establishing Helsinki Watch, a US-based organization focused on freeing them.
Nelson Mandela could easily have chosen to define his group as black South Africans and sought revenge for the injustices of Apartheid and his own
imprisonment.
It would be a mistake to believe that the deaths of thousands of civilians, along with arbitrary
imprisonment
and torture, do not contribute to the spread of terror in Iraq.
The report also details the destruction of schools, the post-conflict mental health problems faced by the young, and the
imprisonment
of children.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, and other European Union leaders have said that they will boycott matches held in Ukraine, owing to the
imprisonment
of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other opposition figures.
Famous around the world for both his writings and his struggle against communism, he endured ceaseless harassment, including
imprisonment
for five years at the beginning of the 1980s.
The key will be to remove the criminal element from defamation cases, and thus the prospect of imprisonment, and instead prosecute them as civil cases, with those found guilty of defamation being subject to reasonable fines.
Indeed, her first brief
imprisonment
in 2001 furnished her with political capital and pushed her into the democratic opposition’s front ranks.
Perhaps Yanukovych himself did not foresee the consequences of Tymoshenko’s arrest, trial, and
imprisonment.
If the EU refuses to sign an Association Agreement with Ukraine at the upcoming Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv on December 19 because of Tymoshenko’s imprisonment, the damage to the country will be vast and enduring.
Or, to take another example of great leadership, Nelson Mandela could easily have chosen to define his group as black South Africans and sought revenge for the injustice of decades of apartheid and his own
imprisonment.
Acquiescing in Tymoshenko’s political
imprisonment
would negate the very foundations of the legal and democratic standards that the EU purports to represent.
To this day, America’s homicide and
imprisonment
rates are several times higher than Europe’s.
It was Mandela’s fight against apartheid that led to his
imprisonment.
In fact, huge protests against a recent bill that would have banned virtually all abortions (under penalty of
imprisonment
for up to five years) forced the government to back down and withdraw the proposed legislation.
In this system, a government official may be removed from power or placed under house arrest, but there is no risk of
imprisonment
or physical harm against him or his family.
Zhou’s fall came not long after the trial and
imprisonment
of Bo Xilai, a candidate for Standing Committee membership who may have been planning a coup against Xi.
Both men’s
imprisonment
precipitated the downfall of a vast network of senior leaders, including provincial governors and the head of the China National Petroleum Company.
Increased censorship and intimidation of foreign journalists, together with the
imprisonment
of dissidents and tighter restrictions on dissent, are an effort to ensure that economic disruption does not give rise to political rebellion.
Homophobia and TyrannyNEW YORK – President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has just signed a new law introducing harsher penalties for homosexual acts, including life
imprisonment
in some circumstances.
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