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Having been convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The judge sentenced him to one year's imprisonment.
Actual life imprisonment can only be imposed because of a malicious violent crime.
Three were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1633. Because of his age and poor health, he was allowed to serve his imprisonment under house arrest.
In many countries, being gay is a cause for imprisonment.
The judge sentenced Tom to three years imprisonment.
Movie subtitles
But as you have greatly sinned, we condemn you. to perpetual imprisonment, to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the water of anguish.
Most respected Court, as my forespeaker clearly hinted, this seems to concern my imprisonment.
I ask you to commute Blackie Gallagher's sentence to life imprisonment.
You are hereby sentenced to one year's imprisonment and 3000 francs' fine.
The lavish manner in which you spent the money. will determine the years of your imprisonment.
Arrest, imprisonment?
Well. your imprisonment shall not be long.
How hath your lordship brooked imprisonment?
Farewell, good Brackenbury. But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks that were the cause of my imprisonment.
You may deny that you were not the cause of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.
Terrasse, two years imprisonment.
Goujet, one year imprisonment.
You're hereby remanded to the custody of the sheriff. and you'll be transported to the state penitentiary. to serve a term of not less than one, nor more than ten years of imprisonment.
And are you aware, Mrs. Helm, that the penalty in this country for perjury is a heavy term of imprisonment?
He was sentenced to life in imprisonment.
He caused the death of my sister. the imprisonment of my parents, the loss of everything I loved.
And are you aware, Mrs Helm, that the penalty in this country for perjury is a heavy term of imprisonment?
Why continue on a road that leads to disgrace and imprisonment?
There was some talk of him being insane. so they sentenced him to life imprisonment instead.
THEN THE COURT SENTENCES YOU TO IMPRISONMENT IN THE STATE PENITENTIARY WITHOUT HOPE OF PAROLE FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT?
Well, you've been isolated, yes, but what you think of as imprisonment just happens to be asylum and security, yes, and survival.
There's a man leaving there today after 17 years' imprisonment.
In the second, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Age 72, he is now in his 53rd year of imprisonment.
But because you have sinned against her and that you may do penance, we condemn you to perpetual imprisonment, so that you may wipe out your sins and not return to them.
And sentence you to life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.
Don't you know there's a penalty for false imprisonment?
Imagine the effect of such imprisonment on Jacqueline.
I'll be rendering meself liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years.
But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks that were the cause of my imprisonment.
In view of the special circumstances, however, the court imposes a sentence of six months' imprisonment.
And did a Bombay court sentence you to 10 days imprisonment for the offense?
For the past three months, Francis Bernardone has borne his imprisonment. as nobly as you bear your honors now.
Emil Hahn, the tribunal finds you guilty and sentences you to life imprisonment.
Friedrich Hofstetter, the tribunal finds you guilty and sentences you to life imprisonment.
Werner Lampe, the tribunal finds you guilty and sentences you to life imprisonment.
News and current affairs
But his half-brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.
It reached this zenith by surpassing cash-strapped Russia - long its only rival as a mass imprisonment society - after Russia released thousands of inmates so as to save money.
Prof. Ibrahim was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful.
Constitutional and legal provisions that make practicing racism a crime punishable by imprisonment have great symbolic significance and help insure - indeed, create and secure - social peace.
After all, what is the point of suggesting imprisonment as an alternative to electrocution, if inmates are subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment?
How can we ignore that a high number of inmates commit suicide - self-inflicted capital punishment - to escape the inhumanity of their imprisonment?
To break the cycle of poverty, a country needs to invest in its children's future, not in the imprisonment of 2.3 million people a year, many for non-violent crimes that are symptoms of poverty.
It offers integration by default within the differentiated space of various communities - a sort of imprisonment by civilization, Sen would say.
Indeed, on Europe's doorstep, the show trial and imprisonment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is jeopardizing her country's international economic standing.
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.
Havel, who has inspired Liu as he has so many others who aspire to freedom, wrote a public letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao after Liu's latest imprisonment.
It was Mandela's fight against apartheid that led to his imprisonment.
Of course, malicious imprisonment is by no means uniquely American.
Moreover, unlike Mandela during his 27-year imprisonment, Suu Kyi has had her hopes raised - and dashed - before.
Acquiescing in Tymoshenko's political imprisonment would negate the very foundations of the legal and democratic standards that the EU purports to represent.
Yet my freedom has left a bitter aftertaste, because my imprisonment ended only as the war against my country began.
In Hungary, for example, the penal code calls for two years imprisonment for personal possession by a drug-dependent person.
The fundamental principle underlying freedom of expression is that speech must be answered with more speech, never with violence, imprisonment, or censorship.
But because arrest no longer meant execution but long imprisonment, dissidents acquired a reasonable chance to emerge from prison or labor camps.
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 EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful. For not just Ibrahim, but the values that the EU professes to uphold, have been on trial in Egypt, and they have been mocked by the Mubarak's regime idea of justice.
In 1998, these other acts were clarified to mean false imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution of a group, enforced disappearance of persons, and apartheid.
The report also details the destruction of schools, the post-conflict mental health problems faced by the young, and the imprisonment of children.
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.
Operation Condor, the Riggs, Frei, and Prats affairs, and many other crimes are documented in the recent report on torture and political imprisonment written by the special commission established by President Ricardo Lagos.