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Prisoner in sentence

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This suggests that, while the prisoner release may lead to a short-term agreement, it is not backed by a genuine effort to develop the kind of trust-based arrangements that are needed for lasting peace.
"There was so much outrage about the prisoner abuse, which I certainly don't approve of, but this was much worse," she said, referring to the Berg murder.
The IRA commitment to decommission weapons by May 2000 is contingent on the overall implementation of the Belfast Agreement, including demilitarisation by the British army; radical reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (the province’s armed police force); effectively functioning devolved administration and cross-border bodies; prisoner releases, equality and cultural reforms.
Confinement in a small box could not exceed two hours, but if the prisoner could stand in the box, it could continue up to eight hours at a time, 18 hours a day.
He was taken to the psychiatric ward, where, according to another prisoner who had been there, he was kept until he died.
It is worth considering how easy it would be to do away with a troublesome prisoner being force-fed by merely adjusting the calorie level.
In short, South Korea has the resources to produce soft power, and its soft power is not prisoner to the geographical limitations that have constrained its hard power throughout its history.
Halfway to the capital, the miners inflicted two humiliating defeats on police and security forces, injuring 30 soldiers and taking hundreds prisoner.
Brazil could become a prisoner of the policy’s totemic value as a commitment device, even as it outlives its usefulness as such.
The first is major cities’ competing sense of entitlement to the fruits of the revolution: Misurata, where Qaddafi’s body was displayed;Tripoli, which hosted the liberation ceremony; and Zintan, which is holding Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, prisoner.
Eleven percent of the respondents said that the prisoner issue should be the most important priority for the new government – nearly twice the number who said that a peace settlement with Israel should be the top priority.
Domestic bankruptcy frameworks evolved because punishing insolvent debtors with prison was counterproductive – a prisoner cannot repay his debts.
As in the Dreyfus affair, Russia's army is increasingly a prisoner of its friends-die hard communists, Great Russian chauvinists, ranting nationalists, and all the other anti-reform and anti-democratic groups who make defense of military honor a rallying cry for their own dark causes.
There is no crisis in America’s churches and synagogues, no Christian and Jewish leaders crying out for justice in the name of Jesus, a tortured political prisoner, or of Yahweh, who demands righteousness.
The National League for Democracy, led by the former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, won the election in a landslide.
Putin takes revenge on anyone – whether the oligarch-cum-political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, members of the rock band Pussy Riot, or ordinary citizens joining anti-Kremlin protests – who challenges his status as “father of the nation.”
The federal court ruled that under the Geneva Conventions, Hamdan, as a prisoner of war, was entitled to a court hearing that followed the same procedures as one judging soldiers of the detaining power, that is, an American court martial.
The Supreme Court, however, sidestepped the question of whether Hamdan was a prisoner of war, arguing instead that the conflict was governed by common Article III in all the Geneva Conventions, which regulates armed conflict ”not of an international character.”
The mayhem began to abate only when Gbagbo was removed from power and taken prisoner after French and UN ground troops, armored vehicles, and helicopters bombarded the presidential palace where he was guarded by forces that remained loyal to him.
You can't help being a prisoner within your own mind, but the least you can do is ensure that the cell is decently furnished."
He was a prisoner of both his genius and his insatiable need for the Argentine public's love.
His courage as a prisoner of war for five years in Vietnam seems to be doubted only by Trump, and the dignified way he is battling brain cancer today has only heightened the esteem in which most Americans hold him.
I have recently been wondering what my father, prisoner number 159721 at Auschwitz, would have made of these 75th anniversary commemorations.
He agreed with the Kremlin on an exchange of 200 prisoners in the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine – the second prisoner exchange this year.
Although hardliners in Tehran and Washington prevented further progress, the so-called Swiss track subsequently led to a prisoner exchange between Iran and the US, demonstrating that, with help from friends or partners, basic bilateral understandings are possible.
(I was released a couple of weeks later in a prisoner exchange.)
A prisoner might benefit by informing on another, but only if the second prisoner does not also betray the first.
More broadly, while Netanyahu’s government has done all it could to weaken and humiliate the PA, it has respectfully negotiated with Hamas, through third parties, on prisoner exchanges and ceasefires.
It was a greeting, the joy of those ancient things of which a gust had reached him, the melancholy of one more prisoner who would not ascend again until death.
"Pardon me, sir," I went on, "but that's merely the freedom that every prisoner has, the freedom to pace his cell!
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