Example sentences of "imprisonment on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohamed Abbad was sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment on charges including conspiracy to overthrow the government and possessing leaflets aimed at disturbing internal security . |
| 2 | Over in Nancy , Simone Weber , the so-called ‘ Devil of Nancy ’ , is now the undisputed record-holder for imprisonment on remand . |
| 3 | Biggs was awarded the Royal Humane Society 's Bronze Medal the day before he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment on the charges of stealing bicycles , the judge saying that sentence would have been more severe but for his brave deed . |
| 4 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the rape charges and four years for each of the indecent assaults . |
| 5 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
| 6 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
| 7 | Some Chinese students did set up pro-democracy groups overseas on a very small scale and took some risks in doing so , facing possible arrest and imprisonment on their return to China . |
| 8 | Close ties with a medical publisher had enabled us to monitor early attempts to move from a traditional print-based publishing enterprise to new technologies : laser-disc publication had proved wasteful and made too many demands of staff with no experience in editing or marketing such material , let alone its production ; on-line database publication drawing on the company 's range of printed publications , many of which were in electronic form anyway before imprisonment on paper , proved more compatible with existing operations and more amenable to the skills of existing staff . |
| 9 | Jampa Ngodrup : a 46-year-old medical doctor in Lhasa , capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China , he was sentenced on 24 December 1990 to 13 years ' imprisonment on charges of spying . |
| 10 | The Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has sentenced David James , former curator of Islamic manuscripts at the Chester Beatty Library , Dublin , to five years imprisonment on thirty-six charges of theft , carried out between 1983 and 1989 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 17 , April 1992 , p.2 ) . |
| 11 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 12 | It may impose a fine of up to £2000 ( unless the Statute creating the offence provides otherwise ) and a maximum term of six months ' imprisonment on any one charge ( and a maximum of twelve months where the person is charged with more than one offence triable ‘ either way ’ , e.g. theft ) . |
| 13 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 14 | On 17 October , both appellants pleaded guilty to the counts charging handling stolen goods and they were sentenced , Christou to two years ' imprisonment and Wright to three years ' imprisonment on each count concurrent . |
| 15 | The judge imposed concurrent periods of three years ' imprisonment on Wright and two years on Christou on each of the charges to which they pleaded guilty . |
| 16 | He was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently , suspended for two years , and ordered to pay compensation in the total sum of £211.25 . |
| 17 | On each of the six counts on which he was convicted he was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on each count concurrent , suspended for two years . |
| 18 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 19 | Nine miners were sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on Jan. 26 for " obstructing the freedom to work " . |
| 20 | On Sept. 3 a court sentenced 26 Moslem militants to lengthy terms of imprisonment on charges of attempting to murder two former Interior Ministers and a journalist . |
| 21 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
| 22 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 23 | Abu Taleb and Marten Imadi , two Palestinains living in Sweden , were each sentenced by a court in Uppsala to life imprisonment on Dec. 21 , 1989 . |
| 24 | They had been sentenced to between five and 14 years ' imprisonment on the basis of forensic evidence from hand swabs indicating that they had handled nitroglycerine . |
| 25 | Shadreck Ndlovu , a former member of the Zimbabwean paramilitary forces , was sentenced to 42 years ' imprisonment on June 1 , 1990 , after confessing to spying for South Africa on the Zimbabwean Army and the ANC between September 1989 and May 1990 . |
| 26 | Col. Amadeo Martínez Inglés was sentenced to two months ' imprisonment on Dec. 12 , 1989 , for advocating , in a book entitled Defenceless Spain , an end to conscription and its replacement by a professional Army . |
| 27 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 28 | The UK government welcomed the release and expressed the hope that it would be followed by the release of a British businessman , Ian Richter ) , sentenced to life imprisonment on bribery and economic charges in 1986 . |
| 29 | Yusef Salaam , 16 , Raymond Santana , 15 , and Antron McCray , 16 , the three youths convicted in August of participating in the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park , New York City , were given maximum sentences of five to 10 years ' imprisonment on Sept. 11 . |
| 30 | In the western Amazonian town of Xapuri , Acre province , a cattle rancher , Darly Alves da Silva , 56 , and his son Darci Alves Pereire , 23 , were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment on Dec. 15 for the premeditated murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the internationally acclaimed environmentalist and leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union , who was murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] . |